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couchmonkey on 27 October 2017
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DonFerrari said:

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 therewere some counterfeit cartridges.

than 95 

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

According to the graph Soundwave puts up, Snes outsells Genesis in 1992, years before PS1 hits the market.  even if we were to assume the chart is biased, there's no way Nintendo passed Sega by almost 20 mln in the last year and a half of their prime.  Street Figter Ii, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong Country, Sonic the Hedgehog...these systems were in their prime in 1992-1995.  actually, the surpriaing thung to me is that snes sells more in 1996 than 95 according to the chart!  Maybe price drops or something, 96 was a pretty zweak year for snes.

 

as for the rest of your post, intersting, but who would be tracking those sales of old consoles in Brazil with any accuracy?