Best first year for a Nintendo console (pre-Switch)

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Salnax said:

NES is cheating by having 2+ years of games at launch.

NES is weird, because it also had a soft launch in the US.  It was NYC only in 1985, and only in major cities in 1986.  In 1987, it finally went nationwide, which is when I first experienced it.  If I can count 1987 as the launch year, then NES wins, but that is actually 4 years after the original Famicom release in Japan.

Similar things happened throughout Europe. Certain cities got the console way before most places did. And pricing was wildly different; although, that may have been childhood me not understanding exchange rates.