I would like to post these two charts, even though you can get them both here at this site (though it takes a while to group it all together).
| Console | ||||||
| 4th Generation | SNES | Genesis | Other1 | Total | % Change from Previous | |
| Japan | 17.15 | 3.59 | 2.5 | 23.24 | - | |
| America | 23.35 | 17.8 | 5 | 46.15 | - | |
| Other | 8.58 | 9.36 | 4 | 21.94 | - | |
| Total: | 49.08 | 30.75 | 11.5 | 91.33 | - | |
| 5th Generation | N64 | Saturn | PlayStation | Total | ||
| Japan | 5.55 | 5.74 | 21.59 | 43.88 | 41.48% | |
| America | 20.63 | 1.87 | 40.78 | 63.28 | 37.12% | |
| Other | 6.75 | 1.15 | 40.12 | 48.02 | 118.87% | |
| Total: | 32.93 | 8.76 | 102.49 | 144.18 | 57.87% | |
| 6th Generation | GameCube | PlayStation 2 | Xbox | Dreamcast | Total | |
| Japan | 4.02 | 25.42 | 0.53 | 2.32 | 32.29 | -1.79% |
| America | 12.81 | 47.68 | 16.42 | 4.6 | 81.51 | 28.81% |
| Other | 4.76 | 44.79 | 7.81 | 2.21 | 59.57 | 24.05% |
| Total: | 21.59 | 117.89 | 24.76 | 9.13 | 173.37 | 20.25% |
| 7th Generation | Wii | PlayStation 3 | Xbox360 | Total | ||
| Japan | 4.5 | 1.64 | 0.53 | 6.67 | ||
| America | 8.18 | 3.36 | 10.13 | 21.67 | ||
| Other | 5.84 | 3.41 | 5.03 | 14.28 | ||
| Total: | 18.52 | 8.41 | 15.69 | 42.62 |
1This is based on reports of PCE and NeoGeo... and there doesn't seem to be any good source on it, so it could be debatable.
Past generations figures based on VGChartz "Worldwide Hardware Shipments"
Current generation figures based on VGChartz, week ending 22nd Dec, 2007, using VGChartz "Hardware from Launch"
| First Year Totals1 | ||||||
| GameCube | PlayStation 2 | Xbox | Dreamcast2 | Total | % Change from Previous | |
| Japan | 1.58 | 3.94 | 0.37 | 1.29 | 7.18 | - |
| America | 2.68 | 4.87 | 3.62 | 2.11 | 13.28 | - |
| Other | 1.68 | 4.46 | 2.14 | 1.01 | 9.29 | - |
| Total: | 5.94 | 13.27 | 6.13 | 4.41 | 29.75 | - |
| Wii | PlayStation 3 | Xbox360 | Total | |||
| Japan | 3.88 | 1.27 | 0.19 | 5.34 | -25.63% | |
| America | 6.29 | 2.34 | 3.48 | 12.11 | -8.81% | |
| Other | 4.68 | 3.41 | 2.09 | 10.18 | 9.58% | |
| Total: | 14.85 | 7.02 | 5.76 | 27.63 | -7.13% |
1First year totals in each region, using VGChartz "Hardware form Launch" set to 52 weeks for each region for each console.
2America and Others numbers are based on Japans first year sales to total LT sales in that region (roughly 50%)
PS3 has only been out in Others for roughly 40 weeks, except for Hong Kong and Taiwan, where it sold roughly 13,000 units.
Obviously more is needed than simple numbers, but what interesting in the first chart is the explosion of Others during the PS era, and then the (slight) reduction of the Japanese market last generation.
Also interesting to note that without the Wii (which is not competing with the PS3 and 360), we would be very far behind last generations adoption rate. If you put in a GameCube2 numbers (which would probably be as low as 4 million), then the numbers start looking really bad. Since the PS3 hasn't been out a year in all markets, there's still some time for Others to grow enough to make the total % change zero, but Japan and America are already "lost" (4th season starting soon.. oh yeah).
That's my 2 cents (or... .15 vg cents?)
Edit: PS sales in Japan were wrong...
