Worldwide sales volume of handheld game machines Ranking worst 10

BeforeGame machine sales worst 10Although this was introduced, this time it is the worst 10 of sales of handheld game machines. Of course, the familiar SEGA is included, and the hard which I have never seen rank in. As expected it is feeling like the worst 10.

Details are as follows.
The 10 Worst-Selling Handhelds of All Time Feature on GamePro.com

# 10th place:Game gear(Sega, 1990)


A game machine that has TV TV tuner pack as an option and also becomes a portable TV. It was impressive that it was a color liquid crystal, while the rival Game Boy was black and white. However, Nintendo's rival machine at the time that the liquid crystal cost was high and the main unit price was 19,800 yenGame BoyIt has become expensive when compared with the use of six alkaline dry batteries, the short operating time which only has about 3 hours, etc. become a bottleneck, and "Sonic the hedgehog" "Puyo Puyo" etc. Despite hit titles, successor did not show up. At the time the mobile game machine industry itself was stagnating, it was due to the appearance of Pocket Monsters that this breathed back. The sales volume is 11 million units, which I think is not a bad figure ....

■ No. 9:N-Gage(Nokia, 2003)


It is not a pure portable game machine, but a cell phone / media player with game function. Since it is a GSM mobile phone, there was no release in Japan and Korea. For the first time as a handheld game machine 3D was used, and the release was before the release of Nintendo DS and PSP. Sega, Taito, and electronic arts have been named as third parties, and not only game software but many freeware and shareware could be used. Expensive as 299 dollars (about 35,000 yen), the system is hard to use, you need to remove the battery when trying to insert a multimedia card to play the game (later improved with N-Gage QD) It seems there was. The unit sold is 3 million units.

# 8th place:Game Boy Micro(Nintendo, 2005)


Game Boy Advance, successor to Game Boy Advance SP. Advance can not use software for Game Boy or Game Boy color that could be used, poor usability of external expansion connector (Conversion connector is required for communication with conventional model, both AC adapter and communication cable use the same connector Only one can be used), and Nintendo also admits that "I could not convey the attractiveness of Game Boy Micro to consumers" as failure. The sales volume is 610,000 in Japan, 950,000 in North America, 2.24 million in the world total.

# 7th place:Neo Geopocket(SNK, 1998)


Although initially appeared in black and white, color version appeared in 1999 because sales were bad. Although it was inexpensive and the length of the running time was evaluated, it sold so much, but lost due to the third party shortage and the great success of Game Boy Advance. The unit sold is 2 million units.

# 6th place:PC Engine GT(NEC, 1990)


Of the PC engine series with various variations both in the main body and peripherals, the portable machine that can play all but the software for the top engine of the PC engine super graphics. As with game gear, color liquid crystal, if you attach TV tuner separately, it will be LCD TV. On the price of 44,800 yen and twice the price of the game gear, the battery was badly carried, and there seemed to be many dot missing of the liquid crystal, and it was lost to the game boy and disappeared. On North American market it is released under the name of Turbo Express. The unit sold is 1.5 million units.

# 5th place:Sega Nomad(Sega, 1995)


Mobile game machine that mega drive (North America name: Genesis) software can play, released in North America only in 1995. The price was slightly higher at 180 dollars (about 20,000 yen), but the operation time was extremely short, about 2 hours, it was announced early due to Sega's marketing failure and so on. The sales volume is 934,000 units. In Japan, there was also a product called "Megajet" which can be played by MegaDrive software exclusively for Japan Airlines' in-flight loan in 1993. It seems that it was released in 1994 at 15,000 yen, but I do not hear the reputation after that. By the way, GIGAZINE 's editor - in - chief seems to have purchased this mega jet

For MegaJet, the site of Sega is detailed.

[Sega Hard Encyclopedia] Megajet

# 4th place:Atari Lynx(Atari Corp, 1989)


Color liquid crystal with backlight, features such as simultaneous play by eight people using communication cable. Although the performance was high in the handheld game machine of those days, it was high, but the size and the weight were the largest, the price was also raised, the operation time was short and there were many problems when the distribution did not go well. After that, Atari Corp completed the production of Lynx for the launch of Atari Jaguar. The final sales volume is both 500,000 and 2 million.

# 3rd place: ·Game.com(Tiger Electronics, 1997)


"Game.com" of electronic game maker Tiger Electronics is No. 3. Using a touch screen and a stylus, it can also be connected to the net (with a 14k modem), it is close to a PDA. The accuracy of the touch screen was low, the resolution was low in the first place, there were many problems with the main body if there was no backlight, 20 titles released, only 300 thousand units sold because of a big failure in publicity.

# 2nd place:Tapwave Zodiac(Tapwave, 2005)


PDA equipped with Palm OS, it seems not to be a genuine mobile game machine. Tapwave had no experience with the game at all, could not take marketing budget against Nintendo and Sony, and Zodiac got over game due to bankruptcy of Tapwave himself. The unit sold is 200 thousand units.

# 1st place:Gizmondo(Tiger Telematics, 2005)


Again it is Tiger Electronics. We released two types with and without advertisement in which CM is automatically downloaded in 2005, advertisement was $ 399, advertisement was $ 299. Of the 14 titles planned, 8 were released. The president of the company organized a party all year round and wastefully managed, etc. Opaque management was done, the game machine itself was not sold, the company itself seems to have gone over the game. The unit sold is 25,000 units.

A reference article is as follows.

The mysterious (disappearing) portable game machine Gizmondo, the European division annihilation - Engadget Japanese

Compared to the top models, game gear is pretty successful, is not it? Although not as much as a Game Boy, there are not many people who have it. IncidentallyWonderSwanAlthough the series sold more than 3 million units, it seems that 10 million units are not selling, so it seems to be the 10th place when included in the ranking.