Exhuminator wrote:
While the PSP sold 80 million the DS sold more than 150 million. I'd say that's a pretty big market domination by anyone's standards.
That's just restating what I said, and leaving out the important detail that they didn't actually dominate their competition more than the Gameboy did.
Again, the DS outsold previous consoles yes - games sell more today than in the past in general. But you do realize that the 7th gen is actually the first time ever that multiple companies were able to get a big chunk of the handheld pie.
80 million units, is a lot of units (same amount as the Game Boy Advance). The DS didn't even double the PSP's sales, so while it clearly dominated, it actually has competition. Compare that to previous generations.
The Gameboy sold 118 Mil (combinging GB with GBC)
GBA sold 80 mill
Gamegear sold 8-10 mill.
Neo Geo Pocket sold 2 mill (including the NGPC)
The Lynx sold 500k-1 mill.
N Gage sold 3 mill
So Nintendo actually dominated the handheld market last gen less than they have any other generation. And again, you have to not only take into account the PSP, but the iPhone - which of course, has sold many many units, and sold many many games. 3DS biggest competition are Droids and iPhones now, not the Vita.
The DS was still #1 by far, but I'm not sure if you can confidently say the DS was more successful than the Gameboy just because it sold more units, you have to factor in the times that they were released. More people play video games now than they did when GB came out.