VGChartz lists Sega Genesis as: Americas Japan Europe
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Sega Genesis (GEN) |
16.31 | 3.58 | 8.65 | 28.54 |
I always found the Americas number to be low but never had any proof.
However I recently stumbled on to this article -
"After the company sold some 20 million 16-bit Genesis consoles in the United States alone in the early 1990's, its 32-bit Saturn flopped..."
Now if US sold 20 million alone, we can safely add another 2 million in Canada and Mexico no?
Also Brazil kept selling the Genesis well in to 2000s with the Gensis 3 model and there are reports of 2 million Genesis consoles sold in Brazil alone.
This logic puts Genesis around the 36 million mark instead of 29 million.
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Furthermore, here is another interesting document - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/grant/docs/11Videogames.pdf
Scroll down to "Table 11.1 US retail sales of hardware and software by console type, 1990-2001 ($, millions)"
Snes
1991 560
1992 1,733
1993 1,890
1994 1,471
1995 823
1996 514
1997 243
1998 137
1999 20
Total - 7,391
Genesis
1990 280
1991 586
1992 1,090
1993 1,706
1994 1,490
1995 719
1996 294
1997 180
Total - 6,345
This indicates that Snes generated around 1 billion more in revenue for software and hardware. However Snes was always the more expensive unit. Snes console cost 50 dollars more for most of that gen and new Snes games cost more... 20 million Snes consoles sold for 50 dollars more covers that revenue gap 100%.
This would lead us to conclude that Genesis and Snes are pretty much neck and neck in software and hardware sales in US.
Thoughs? Opinions?
