>>13194350>This is because the DS is the first Nintendo handheld console with a respectable game libraryThere were tons of great games for the GBA and a lesser extent GB(C), you're being willfully ignorant if you believe otherwise. The DS sold well because it was a huge social gaming machine; look at sales numbers, Brain Age sold more than both DP and BW. It was the iOS and tablet before they existed, and once those two became popular, handheld sales took a incredibly sharp downturn.
You're basically proving my point here that software sales hardware, claiming that RSE sold bad because the GBA did is beyond inept and proves that the person that said it doesn't have the faintest understand of how the game industry works.
>You're also ignoring that RBY and GS were all playable on the GBGBCs went on sale before Red and Blue were released stateside, your point is only cognizant if you're speaking solely of Japan since most kids would've had Colors by default everywhere else.
Crystal sold terribly compared to Yellow because the fad was already slumping by that point, and it didn't have the mascot of Pokemon plastered on the cover, not really because people didn't have GBCs.
