javi741 said:
That definitely surprised me too, and everyone wanted to make it seem like Nintendo was struggling hard those yeasr when they were absolutely killing it with the GBA, outselling the most successful console of all time for several years and the only thing that stopped the GBA from selling close to PS2 numbers was Nintendo themselves with an even more successful platform the DS taking off early. This really goes to show Nintendo was really never in difficult times despite what the media wanted to make it seem like. |
Apart from the fact the list is wrong you also need to understand that pure hardware sales won’t paint a complete picture of success. GBA sold 377m units of Software, the PS2 is 1.537b.
The PSP sold 82m units but it was a bit of a flop because its software sales were awful. All the Nintendo pure handhelds had fairly poor Software sales but they did ok because the hardware was sold at a slight profit. This is why handheld market numbers are very misleading, it was not actually a particularly lucrative market relative to its size.
