| Soundwave said: Super NES didn't launch in the West until 1991 (and I don't think in Europe until 1992), so you're kinda cutting the SNES short by drawing 1995 as some arbitrary cut off point. Interesting little point -- from 1990-1996, Japan was the worst market for the Game Boy by a large margin, and Europe was the best. Nintendo was still selling a crazy amount of NES hardware too during this time period. They sold almost 12 million NES in North America alone from April 1990-April 1996 for example. This is kinda hard to compare, because the NES for example didn't even have its peak shipment in Europe until 1991/92 for example. Nintendo sold another 23 million (roughly) from April 1990-April 1996. So really between April 1990-April 1996 I have approx. 109 million in hardware shipments (NES/SNES + Game Boy). Numbers based on this: |
The reason for the odd spikes in sales back in the 90s for Europe was the buggered treatment we got from gaming, we'd often get games a year and a half to 2 years later. Gaming for many Europeans was a casual affair if you were consoles in the 80s and early 90s, a large number of games even skipped the region, today you don't really get as many staggered releases or they're nowhere near as bad unless the company is called Namco, so sales in the modern era would have more stability in their patterns.
The's also the case of the releases in EU weren't straight forward, countries were customers in a que with a number this is why NES had 2 launches in EU with the first in 86 and the second in 87, I'm glad Sony ended that shit as that's something no one can take away from them they brought out a more stabel release approach.
