Wanna predict how much the Switch will sell?

[Mnementh]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Jumpin said:

Even later in European countries, the NES wasn't really widely available until about the time of the SNES release. Even in the countries where it WAS available, you could only get it in certain cities. While I am sure most gamers and future gamers alive at the time were vaguely aware of Nintendo (mostly through old arcade machines) and the NES, I'd say most people didn't know exactly what it was until about the time Super Mario Bros 3 was announced; very shortly after that, EVERYONE knew the name of Mario and our sword-wielding Hyrule hero Zelda =D

That doesn't surprise me.  The impression I've always gotten from Europe is that they mostly consider the 16-bit consoles to be their "first generation".  I just got a retro game magazine from the UK where they voted Super Mario World #1 game of all time.  They did have a few NES games in their top 100 list, but the list as a whole seemed more slanted toward the 16-bit era.

I never even noticed consoles until the Dreamcast, so I could be wrong as I cite general knowledge, not my personal experiences. But as far as I'm aware, Atari sued Nintendo in europe and therefore made their entry more difficult. Difficulties which Sega could used for their adavntage. I cannot get numbers for the Sega Master System from the platform totals (maybe I'm blind). But the Sega Megadrive (Genesis) were more successful in europe than both NES and SNES. The initial difficulties Nintendo had in europe are also visible by the SNES selling around 10 million units less than the NES in America, but about the same in europe. And most people here know Sonic as well as Mario, and more people are fan of the hedgehog than the plumber.