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From what I remember here in VGC was that until the release of PS1 the Mega Drive/Genesis was ahead of Super Nintendo.

On Sega saying they sold over 40M, they legally can't lie about that so we have to accept the numbers.

On the shipments of famitsu. In Brazil Tec Toy manufactured Mega Drive and Gradient manufactured Snes. Don't know for sure if any of them would enter the shipment figures of the companies, but I would be positive that the famitsu figures wouldn't.

Mega Drive was selling in stores up to these days, there may be one or two years since the last time I saw a Mega Drive on a store, and there is a new Master System being sold.

About the arm and a leg, that is a little false. When I bought my PS1 it costed R$350 (equivalent to about 200 USD) in 2000, My PS2 was R$ 1000 in 2005 (equivalent to 350 USD) and unfortunately Mega Drive wasn't much cheaper, and surely both PS1 and PS2 were over 2x more expensive than in USA even on the grey shops, at the time neither were officially released by Sony in Brazil. One thing I can say for almost sure is that Mega Drive sold more in Brazil, perhaps because its games were a lot cheaper and there were some counterfeit cartridges.

 

Here is a link of Tectoy still selling the Mega Drive https://www.tectoy.com.br/pre-venda-mega-drive-edicao-limitada/p/995040461825 in Brazil, R$ 450 or about 120 USD.

It seems like they only got a lifetime license to manufacture the Master System and the Mega Drive, not ever getting a license for Saturn and Dreamcast unfortunatelly. I would like to have a pristine version of both.

Also because of the simplificity and some kind of "free domain" chip of NES, in Brazil there are still some companies that sell the "same" version of NES they sold 25 years ago like the Dynavision... And of course there are the rip-offs in Brazil that came with the names of Polystation (chassis looking like a PS1), Polystation 64, Polystation Wii (those are the ones I saw personally, not sure they made the PS 2, 3 or 4) this one came with the pistol and all.

Last edited by DonFerrari - on 27 October 2017

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."