Stiq Figures, November 12 - 18: Game Gear edition [Joystiq]

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Welcome to Stiq Figures, where the sales data is after the break and the posts don't matter. Every week, we take a look at, uh, something - meanwhile, the previous week's Japanese hardware sales figures are posted after the jump, and a discussion of said figures takes place in our comments. It may not be conventional, but it's a time-honored Joystiq tradition.

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This commercial for Sega's 1991 handheld system, the Game Gear, features actor Ethan Suplee (My Name is Earl) playing a Game Boy with a total lack of enthusiasm. The message in the commercial is pretty clear: Game Boy + dead squirrel = Game Gear.

There are six AA batteries somewhere in that equation for the Game Gear, not that battery life has been a great aspect of Nintendo's more recent portable efforts.Continue reading Stiq Figures, November 12 - 18: Game Gear edition
Stiq Figures, November 12 - 18: Game Gear edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Rob2600]

Yikes, the 3DS is outselling the Vita 13 to 1.