I think we can agree, that the console-market growed with each gen, although data on the first ones is not good. To be clear: I only talk about the sales of the hardware, and only home-console. Let's take a look:
Gen 1: 5M-10M? = 350K (Magnavox Odyssey) + 1M (Coleco Telstar) + 3M (Color TV game from Nintendo) + X (Pong)
Gen 2: 40M? = 250K (Channel F) + 30M (Atari 2600) + 2M (Magnavox Odyssey 2) + 3M (Intellivision) + 1M (Coleco Vision) + 50K (Entex Adventure Vision) + X (Sega SC-1000)
Gen 3: 75M = 62M (NES) + 13M (Sega Master System) + 3.7M (only NA, Atari 7800)
Gen 4: 90-100M = 49M (SNES) + 30-40M? (Sega Genesis) + 7-10M (TurboGrafX)
Gen 5: 150M = 104M (PS) + 33M (N64) + 9-11M (Sega Saturn) + 5M (3DO)
Gen 6: 215M = 155M (PS2) + 25M (Xbox) + 22M (GC) + 11M (DC)
Gen 7: 245M = 99M (Wii) + 74M (X360) + 72.5M (PS3)
Gen 8: ? (WiiU, PS4, Nextbox, Ouya, Steambox)
Many claim with Tablets and Smartphones the console-market will take a hit. I'm sceptical, so far the amrket always became bigger gen over gen. What do you think and why?
