Wanna predict how much the Switch will sell?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Jumpin said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

I am talking about North America.  However, it was also cheap considered to computers in Japan.  You can't really compare it to other consoles in Japan, because it was the first.  Any way you cut it, the NES was designed to be a cheap system with the weakest hardware available.  They got decent looking graphics with their graphics chip, but they cheaped in every other way possible.  Their whole business model, even for the Famicom, was to go cheap.

Even later in European countries, the NES wasn't really widely available until about the time of the SNES release. Even in the countries where it WAS available, you could only get it in certain cities. While I am sure most gamers and future gamers alive at the time were vaguely aware of Nintendo (mostly through old arcade machines) and the NES, I'd say most people didn't know exactly what it was until about the time Super Mario Bros 3 was announced; very shortly after that, EVERYONE knew the name of Mario and our sword-wielding Hyrule hero Zelda =D

That doesn't surprise me.  The impression I've always gotten from Europe is that they mostly consider the 16-bit consoles to be their "first generation".  I just got a retro game magazine from the UK where they voted Super Mario World #1 game of all time.  They did have a few NES games in their top 100 list, but the list as a whole seemed more slanted toward the 16-bit era.