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curl-6 on 19 February 2019
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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? 

The SNES led the 4th gen with 49 million sales. Even in the era of PS1 and PS2 the market total was smaller than today. Outselling systems from back when the market was far smaller isn't an accomplishment, by today's standards selling 50 million or so is mediocre.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 19 February 2019