Pemalite said:
padib said:
I used the years for gameboy, it's perfect that way, it's even more clear cut than the split you're proposing.
Anyway propose a metric and I'll put the numbers together. For me the one I proposed is the most simple and correct, but I am waiting for your idea.
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Except the Gameboy started an entire generation before the Nintendo 64.
Do you not see the issue here?
But if we were to do some quick and dirty napkin math...
Gameboy Colour dropped in October/November of 1998, so if we (incorrectly) assume that all sales From March 1999 and onwards were GBC only hardware units sold... That would place the GBC at 54.3~ million units, obviously we lose about 6~ months worth of sales, but it's close enough as the original Gameboy/Gameboy Pocket continued to sell anyway.
That would then give the Gameboy 64.39~ million hardware units sold.
Data here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1512.pdf
So my idea is (and I am repeating this again... So it's silly to wait for a repeat!) to split the Gameboy and Gameboy Colour up and align the Gameboy to the SNES, Gameboy Colour to the Nintendo 64.
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The Switch is the other issue as it can be lumped in with 3DS and WiiU being an 8th gen console.
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I don't understand why we have to go through such mental gymnastics when we have the yearly sales for gameboy and I provided the source and the numbers based off another user's thread:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/246545/gameboy-total-lt-sales-breakdown/
for the Gameboy the official shipment worldwide numbers are as follows:
by march 1990 3.93M
by march 1991 8.06M
by march 1992 10.67M
by march 1993 7.80M
by march 1994 7.47M
by march 1995 5.58M
by march 1996 4.16M
by march 1997 7.09M
by march 1998 9.66M
by march 1999 12.99M
by march 2000 17.45M
by march 2001 18.86M
by march 2002 4.70M
by march 2003 270k
