Commodore 64 Mini console announced.

[HoloDust]

Spindel said:

HoloDust said:

It was very popular in Europe (yeah, I'm that old), but competition was stiffer than in US - Europe had ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 464 as well.

It was very good machine for its time, with a lot of great games and some genres not found on consoles and (what is now called indies) lot of bedroom/garage developers.

i would rather say it was bigger in western europe than in the US. Just look at the amount of games made by european (mainly UK) developers and a lot of them never reached the US (where only made for the PAL version). 

 

C64 is the reason europe has been PC-centric and he US has been console centric. 

Honestly, not sure on numbers - they range from 12.5-22M - I usually go with official Commodore's number of 17M + 4.5M C128 (backward compatible).

Out of those I remember I've read somewhere about 1/3 was NA, but not sure how well it sold outside of Europe.

But yeah, Europe has been much more computer centric then NA back in days...I think it kinda balanced out these days.