BKK2 on 02 February 2008
"I have a decent historical collection of magazines and books on gaming."
Me too, unfortunately they're in storage in Europe, so not currently accessible to me. I look forward to seeing any others you may have, particularly 8-bit sales.
Here's some1987 launch figures for the Master System in the UK. 30,000 was considered a success (according to Anthony Guter who then worked at Sega's UK distributer Mastertronic, "Mastertronic sold all they could get that year"), and with nearly 100,000 software sales, had an attach rate of roughly three, which seems pretty good for a newly launched console.
