A Black Falcon
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And they're higher than most people guessed. (Oh, these are all US-only figures, not international. Important to note.)
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=144552&st=0&p=1756601&#entry1756601
3.7 million systems sold from 1986-1990, huh? More than I would have guessed, for sure, and other people too, if that thread is accurate. If true, that's pretty interesting... I wonder if that was higher than the US Sega Master System number. Wouldn't surprise me if it was, though given how hard it is to find accurate Sega sales numbers (SMS, Genesis, whatever, there are no real good accurate numbers, just guesses pretty much), I'm not sure if we have any idea... it'd be nice, so we could know exactly how well they both did here... or exactly how far each was behind the NES, really.
Anyway though, this is very interesting information, for sure. Go to the link, there are game sales totals through 1990 and everything... cool stuff.
I don't know where the guy got those files from so hopefully it's okay to post this, but if not I'll remove the link. Anyway, the guy promises 2600 data tomorrow...
At Digitpress some game sales totals have been compiled here: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132000
(Note that these are not complete lifetime sales numbers, either for games or systems; after 1990 the system surely faded, as that was the last year with any new first-party releases in the US (though Atari published one 7800 games Europe exclusive in 1991, there were none in the US), and then the system was discontinued on Jan. 1 1992 on the same day as the 2600 and XE, but more copies surely did sell than the numbers here, particular of later games like 1990's Ninja Golf, which has a very small sales number sold in that list, but probably sold at least slightly better than that.)
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=144552&st=0&p=1756601&#entry1756601
3.7 million systems sold from 1986-1990, huh? More than I would have guessed, for sure, and other people too, if that thread is accurate. If true, that's pretty interesting... I wonder if that was higher than the US Sega Master System number. Wouldn't surprise me if it was, though given how hard it is to find accurate Sega sales numbers (SMS, Genesis, whatever, there are no real good accurate numbers, just guesses pretty much), I'm not sure if we have any idea... it'd be nice, so we could know exactly how well they both did here... or exactly how far each was behind the NES, really.
Anyway though, this is very interesting information, for sure. Go to the link, there are game sales totals through 1990 and everything... cool stuff.
I don't know where the guy got those files from so hopefully it's okay to post this, but if not I'll remove the link. Anyway, the guy promises 2600 data tomorrow...
At Digitpress some game sales totals have been compiled here: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132000
(Note that these are not complete lifetime sales numbers, either for games or systems; after 1990 the system surely faded, as that was the last year with any new first-party releases in the US (though Atari published one 7800 games Europe exclusive in 1991, there were none in the US), and then the system was discontinued on Jan. 1 1992 on the same day as the 2600 and XE, but more copies surely did sell than the numbers here, particular of later games like 1990's Ninja Golf, which has a very small sales number sold in that list, but probably sold at least slightly better than that.)