"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

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Shadow1980 said:

RolStoppable said:

The TG-16 never launched in Europe, so that's a definite 0.

Yep. You're right. From Wikipedia:

The PC Engine was never officially released in continental Europe, but some companies imported them and made SCART conversions on a moderate scale. In France, a company known as Sodipeng imported Japanese systems and added an RGB Cable called "AudioVideo Plus Cable". This mod improved the original video signal quality extensively and made the consoles work with SECAM televisions. In Germany, several importers sold converted PC Engines with PAL RF as well as RGB output. The connectors and pinouts used for the latter were frequently compatible with the Amiga video port, with two unconnected pins used for the audio channels.

So, with no official release, officially its sales were indeed zero in Europe. I guess since it apparently sold 2.5 million units in NA and 10 million globally, that puts Japan at perhaps upwards of 7.5 million, though I still can't find anything official saying exactly what the PC Engine sold in Japan. If it was 7.5M (which would put it in second place for the 16-bit era), that would put fourth-gen sales at a bit over 28 million, roughly on par with total eighth-gen sales.

Sounds good to me.

PC Engine is a weird one generation wise though. It was seen in Japan more as competition to the Famicom and not the SFC. Its success came from 87-90, once the SFC came out its sales dried up.

In the US it was very much marketed as a 16Bit console (hence the name change) going up against the Genesis and SNES.