January NPD 2019

[Agente42]

chakkra said:

curl-6 said:

Xbone still always had the full backing of all the big third parties, something Nintendo hasn't had since the SNES. The market has also grown massively since the 80s/90s, back then you could sell 50 million and be market leader, now to do that you need over 100 million.

3 of the 4 Nintendo consoles you describe come from a time when the gaming population was vastly smaller than today, so outselling them in the current gen is not really an achievement.

Wait, what??  You do know that those consoles were competing against the PS1 and PS2, right? 

 

First, the video game market, before the PS1, is basically concentrated in the US and Japan. Europe was a land of computers. ROTD is minimal. Clones NES everywhere, more than 40,000 clones around the world. Sony uses the great connections of the big company and sells the PS1 everywhere. The market, in terms of penetration, is down. In gross number, up. The PS1 and NES have similar numbers in Japan and the US. The difference in the US is because the population grew and did not grow in the market. The market only grows in the seventh generation.