Never knew how popular handheld gaming were compared to home consoles. WTF?

[Deleted member 20987]

To date the overall the highest selling videogame console, worldwide, overall is the PlayStation 2 home console. But the top 10 per region and definitely Japan amazes me.

Worldwide
Of the top 10, best selling, gaming consoles 4 were handheld with the Nintendo DS and GameBoy holding the number 2 and 3 spot with the most worldwide sales

List of best-selling game consoles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Japan
Of the top 10, best selling, gaming consoles 5 were handheld (6 if you count Nintendo Switch which is both handheld and home console)
The top 3 best sellers in Japan are 1. Nintendo DS, 2. Game Boy Color and 3. Nintendo 3DS.

List of best-selling game consoles by region - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I am surprised.

 

[deathsh+rt]

I own 3 3ds consoles 2 PS Vita's, one game boy advance, switch ,xbox 360 and a gb boy colour so handheld are my thing as I find it nice to play them while waiting for appointments I just wish the games were more mature in nature.

 

[Deleted member 20987]

I own 3 3ds consoles 2 PS Vita's, one game boy advance, switch ,xbox 360 and a gb boy colour so handheld are my thing as I find it nice to play them while waiting for appointments I just wish the games were more mature in nature.

I played TETRIS on the original GameBoy monochrome screen and that's it. California Games on the Sega GameGear and.......

Never go into handhelds as I can't play a screen where there's sunlight on it, plus the batteries man!

In Japan I assumed the PlayStation 1 would rule due to retro gamers saying Final Fantasy 7 is/was huge in Japan at the time in 1997. But the series has been around since 1987. Overall it is second only to Pokemon in Japan (which is classed as an RPG as well).

That said a lot of Japanese commuters and school-kids probably lapped up handheld consoles back in the day.

 

[FinnCel]

Psp b
Was pretty good

 

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Psp b
Was pretty good