• Ech@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    24 days ago

    Color and SP in shamble (I figure they’re wrapped up in the original consoles, but still)

  • scops@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    24 days ago

    Crazy to see the N64 so far down the list. I was a Sega-, then Sony-kid but it seemed like the N64 had a better market share than the graphic would imply. Might just be confirmation bias based on my age though.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      24 days ago

      The N64 had mediocre sales and a trickle of releases, but the hits kept coming, and some of them were transformative. It’s like if the Wii U had a Wind Waker level success every six months.

    • Podunk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      23 days ago

      Same. I imagine that game quality has someting to do with it. Total number of units may be lower, but I can list n64 games that i loved even now. A lot of them. Sega for me was sonic and thats mostly it. Ps1 games is a mixed bag. I have vague memories, but nothing was that special. It was just a console that ran on a disk. Those cartridges though are permanent in my mind.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        24 days ago

        Makes sense.

        I bought FOUR Nintendo DSes.

        Two Nintendo DSes for my wife and I. Gave one to my cousin as a gift. Then bought a DS XL for Zelda.

    • cosmoscoffee@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      24 days ago

      I can’t confirm this for the people I know… why do you think it would have sold better than the original DS? People who bought the DS Lite probably didn’t already own the DS, and people who already owned the DS probably didn’t have a reason to buy the Lite version (apart from a new and sleeker design, I can’t remember any groundbreaking innovations that would justify buying another DS onsole for many people, unlike the DSi with its new camera function).

  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    23 days ago

    Aight, I’m a modern Nintendo hater, but the DS lite was so good. It had a great games library, an excellent layout that didn’t cramp my hands as a child or an adult, and a solid touch screen. Peer to peer networking was so nice in an era where you very rarely had internet anywhere and it was never fast enough for gaming.

    I think I must’ve spent hours in pitcochat alone. Plus, my almost 20 year old DS lite still works. I used it to play some of the Layton games just recently! I did manage to break one, but that was cause my mother put some obnoxiously large case on it that made it impossible to play anything. Tried ripping it off and tore the sections in half

  • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    24 days ago

    As of August 2024, cumulative sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console had risen to roughly 117.2 million units

    Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game console worldwide in 2022

    the Xbox One, was put to market in 2013 and sold roughly 58 million units in total until the end of its lifespan in 2020.

    https://www.statista.com

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    That is such a death sentence looking at the switch. There are probably more than 10 times more gamerz than there were at the DS release but they did not sell more at all.

    • cron@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      23 days ago

      When the switch was released, everyone already had a smartphone capeable for gaming. This was not the case in 2004.

    • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      24 days ago

      IMO that’s probably more because of how many people owned multiple DS’s, I’ve known several people who collected them