| happydolphin said: The most impressive thing I find is Sony's penetration during the PSX era, outselling the previous home console market presence by a factor of two! And of course, Sony's 52M in gen6 is a serious record! Will be very hard to beat, and destroyed the SNES era. |
Sony were the first to actually make an effort here in Europe.
Nintendo and Sega were small companies based in Japan, the effort involved in spreading their operations across Europe was not thought to be worth it at the time. Sony was already a big multinational company so it wasn't too much of an effort to sell the PSX there.
The N64 still suffered here in part because Nintendo still wasn't trying very hard here, but also because Sony had become the defacto console. GC didn't really do well anywhere, with America being the only place it sold reasonably. That and being against the PS2 it didn't have much chance.
