| Jpcc86 said: The way some people talk about the 3Ds you would assume it sold like 20m and not the fantastic 75m it did. |
We don't have the split sales numbers of Game Boy or Game Boy Color, but logic would tell us 3DS outsold the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color on their own.
I feel like people lowball the importance of the 3DS hardware sales for a few reasons.
-Its immediate predecessor was an earth-shattering platform. Switch might pass DS, but we'll see.
-GBA sold over 80 million, so did PSP.
-Wii U tanked, and some of that negativity did affect the perception of 3DS.
-3DS needed a price cut early on due to the lack of value. Nintendo temporarily took a loss on it because of the price cut.
Lifetime Sales Predictions
Switch: 156 million (was 73, then 96, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million)
PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 48 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million)
PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)
3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)
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