BraLoD said:
zorg1000 said:
BraLoD said:
Well, GB/GBC sold 118M and SNES sold 49M.
Do you see 3DS/2DS/N3DS and WiiU doing anything close to that?
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In fiscal year ending March 1995, both of those devices had shown big declines, GB shipped 5.56 million which was down from 7.47 million & SNES shipped 4.41 million which was down from 11.06 million. That's a total 9.97 million down from 18.53 million. Basically the same situation they are currently in.
It was literally just Pokémon+Gameboy Color that caused those massive sales in the late 90s/early 00s. So yes if 3DS stayed on the market for 12 years without a successor and received a massive system selling series that sold over 60 million than yes they could come close to those numbers.
Gameboy was a two generation device, comparing it's lifetime sales to a single generation device does not make for accurate comparisons.
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You are talking as if the 3DS did not also got Pokemon. The 3DS even got another two massive franchises exclusively for it as Yokai Watch, a new hit like Pokemon to the GB and Monster Hunter, a very consolidated franchise.
The 3DS will end up with at best 2/3 of the GB and the WiiU 1/3 of the SNES.
There you can see the answer of why one duo was good and the other was not so much.
Those later system had the power to keep seeling for that long, it's their merit, not an excuse.
It's like saying the Wii is actually best than the PS2 because it sold a ton very fast then died, and the PS2 sold a lot for way longer, even after it cycle had a sucessor, but that's PS2 merit and Wii fault.
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Yes it has Pokémon but the series has declined from the 90s and is now 20 years old, I'm talking about a brand new IP that become a worldwide phenomenon, 3DS does not have that. Yokai Watch & Monster Hunter are big in Japan but nowhere near as big as 90s Pokémon and are both niche outside of Japan.
3DS+Wii U are on track to ship 11 million this fiscal year which is better than GB+SNES did in FY ending March 1995. It's a similar situation, both devices were in decline and set to get replaced in the next 2 years, those systems did not have the power to keep going without a surprise miracle hit. Nintendo had a surprise miracle hit franchise release that went on to sell over 60 million over the course of the following 5 years which caused Nintendo to keep Gameboy on the market without a successor for a second generation.
3DS+Wii U will not come close to total GB+SNES sales, but that's not the point of the thread, the point is that Nintendo has sold a similar amount of hardware in the 8th generation as they did in the 4th generation. Despite GB/GBC being blocked together as a single device, they still belong to separate generations and in order to have accurate generation to generation comparisons than GB sales need to be divided up between which generstion they fall in.
