Interesting thread. Keep it up.

@BKK2, m_i or someone else:

Does anyone has more data for consoles like this? Turbograf-x, Magnavox Odyssey, Coleco Telstar, you know. :P


Thx. :)

I just wrote out a long reply but it disapeared into cyberspace ...

Anyway, I have some limited TurboGrafx (PC Engine) sales:

PC Engine:

JP: 7.5m
NA: 2.5m
EU: Not released

I doubt that this includes PC Engine GT (greatest handheld ever IMO) sales.

Link

Edit:

The same site claims TurboExpress (PC Engine GT) sales of 1.5m. It's unclear if this is just US or WW sales, but seeing as the TurboGrafx number was WW then this probably is too.

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I then argued that PC Engine should be classed as a third generation console, not a fourth generation console as many label it. Despite it's US name it was just an 8-bit console, same as the NES and SMS, not a 16-bit console like the Mega Drive and Super Famicom, and released just one year after the Sega Master System.

1983: NES (8-bit)
1986: SMS (8-bit)
1987: PCE (8-bit)
1988: SMD (16-bit)
1990: SFC (16-bit)

To be fair I should point out that the Master System was based on the SG-1000 Mark III which was first released in 1985. Still, the PC Engine should just be classed as a late third gen console, not an early fourth gen one.

To go with the 1987 launch year sales for the Master System sales in the UK the following article says 80,000 were sold in Europe that year. That means 37.5% of European SMS sales in 1987 were in the UK.

Link.

Someone has posted the internal sales figures for US Atari 7800 from 1986 - 1990, he said he'll post the 2600 data today aswell.

7800 hardware shipments:

1986 286,417
1987 1,313,561
1988 1,423,977
1989 655,353
1990 93,443

Total 3,772,751

This doesn't include 1984 test launch or post 1990 sales, so the total number would be a little higher.

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Good numbers. But why do you always put Mike from Morgantown at the end of every post?