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Forums - Sales Discussion - A little milestone that people have not noticed - the PS4 has outsold the NES

mountaindewslave on 02 July 2017
Lawlight said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

When you consider the market difference between 1985 and 2013, it's not really that impressive. It's like comparing revenue for movies and not adjusting for inflation. The NES selling 60 million units in the climate it launched in is like the PS4 selling 300 million units.

Incorrect - market size is not like inflation at all. A market can shrink but inflation is always on the way up (it's not called deflation after all).

obviously that's true but I believe he was talking about literally the perspective of the market at the time; he's right of course- the market proportionately was massively smaller in terms of games sales (not a shocker considering how early in the video game world that was).

Comparatively the NES selling like 60 million in the 80s would probably be like PS2 levels in the 2000s (if not beyond that). Again, speaking regarding market share and the amount sold in comparison to the revenue of the market as a whole.

even in the late 1980s a lot of the world was still looking at 'home video game consoles' as sort of a strange new thing, which had a lot to do with computers at home themselves still being a fairly unfamiliar thing.