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CaptainExplosion 1 day ago
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curl-6 said:
Chris Hu said:

Besides the original X Box they all easily sold more than the Atari 2600 which was the first successful home console so no you can't say the same thing about the Xbox.  Also, people forget that the original XBox easily outsold the Gamecube and more than doubled the sales of the Dreamcast.  So, on their first try you can argue the already accomplished more than Sega did with the Genesis/Mega Drive.

The market was simply far bigger in the 6th-9th gen than in the days of the Atari 2600 or Megadrive though; in the 2nd gen, the winning console of the generation sold 30m, while in the 4th gen the winner sold 49m, while at the same time that the OG Xbox sold 24m, the PS2 sold over 155m.

OG Xbox was outsold 8:1 by its primary competitor, Xbox One was outsold around 2:1, and the Series is on track to be outsold by like 4:1. Only 360 was actually competitive, and even then it finished in 3rd place behind Wii and PS3.

It's like Xbox has more in common than I thought with Sega. The Master System didn't really do anything special, but the Genesis sold better, then the Saturn flopped, and then the DreamCast flopped harder. -_-