Some do not match (3DO) and others are "strange" (PS1 and Saturn).Appears to be shipments (in ten thousands) through March 1995.
That's why I asked.
Some do not match (3DO) and others are "strange" (PS1 and Saturn).Appears to be shipments (in ten thousands) through March 1995.
Yeah, it's the only way.PS1 is through May 4th 1995, I guess Sega made a similar 1m announcement around the same time. Maybe 3DO is worldwide including GoldStar, that's the only way it could match the known numbers.
This is the table of contents for the 2014 report: http://report.cesa.or.jp/book-list/mokuji/ippan2015.pdfWas checking japanese wikipedia and ,aside from noting they are refering to CESA White Paper report 2014, what struck me is they seem to declare Mega Drive software LTD: 175,80 million
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メガドライブ
Unfortunately no source is given.
Wonder where they got their number.
Saturn software LTD was 80 million as March '98 while Dreamcast software LTD was 58.21 million as March 2002.
You're right and the category only mentions "Accumulated number of hardware shipments".CESA White Paper report 2014 was the source for MD hardware LTD (30,75M) but doesn't seem to be the source for software LTD and I doubt CESA would go through the trouble to add old shipment information to latter reports (compared to *that* one we know).
Unlikely.So it almost hit the million in 1994, the total LTD is 995.000 units.
It's not much though, already checked it. ^^Oh! *saved*
Will look into it later and maybe update the Nintendo million seller thread.
This preview of CESA White Paper 2009 has software shipment numbers (but only the last rankings from #370 - #279), look at the last pages.
http://report.cesa.or.jp/missprint/goshoku/hakusho_2009_teisei.pdf
But it has some more recent software data (up to December 2008), useful for some GCN games for example.
Done:Oh! *saved*
Will look into it later and maybe update the Nintendo million seller thread.
METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SUBSTANCE (2002)
1.39 million units
Introducing the Sega CD and the 32X werent the only measures in that regard. TecToy also offered the Sega Club, a sales channel aimed directly towards the end customer avoiding retail, in which TecToy offered a CDX bundled with Night Trap and two other games as special sales deal, among other things. According to Arnhold, something between 10 and 20 thousand units were being sold in Brazil this way.
Why were software shipments in Europe so much lower than NA when the hardware difference isn't that big? Does Europe just buy less software overall?PlayStation software shipments
286m - Japan and Asia
372m - North America
304m - Europe
962 Million units of software sold worldwide
PlayStation Hardware shipments
21.59m - Japan and Asia
40.78m - North America
40.12m - Europe
102.49 Million units of hardware sold worldwide
Why were software shipments in Europe so much lower than NA when the hardware difference isn't that big? Does Europe just buy less software overall?
High levels of piracy. It's not just Europe either, but "PAL Territories" which includes a lot of developing nations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120609161621/http://scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps_e.html
They never announced 1995 Q1-3 shipments.
0.85m was just Famitsu's estimate based off of number of days it took to reach 1m.
"each has sold around 500 units.
The first were just preliminary information, out of production files, not sales files"
No. The one or two people who own known copies aren't sharing.Excellent article, I'd love to have access to TecToy's archive. Has 32X Surgical Strike never been dumped?
What magazines are these scans from?FY 93/94 Hardware sales;
FY96/97 Hardware sales;
FY97/98 H1 Hardware sales (thanks celine);
Third one is from Console Plus issue 73.What magazines are these scans from?
I know the second one is from Edge, but what about the other two?
BKK, no Dreamcast shipment chart in the OP?
What magazines are these scans from?
I know the second one is from Edge, but what about the other two?
Great post full of interesting info, but the TurboGrafx-16 and Turbo CD numbers here are wrong, they're far too high. First, we know that there were 735,000 to 750,000 TurboGrafx-16 systems sold in the Americas. NEC produced ~735,000 (or maybe 750,000) at launch, and they still weren't all sold several years later; the last one or two hundred thousand apparently were sold for cheap in Brazil, or something like that. See pages three and six of this article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/225466/stalled_engine_the_turbografx16_.php?page=1
And as for the Turbo CD, Victor Ireland (of Working Designs at the time, TG16/CD developer) estimated several years ago that he thought that the Turbo CD sol 20,000 systems, and the Turbo Duo also about 20,000 Turbo Duo. Now his estimate may be as of mid '93 when he stopped supporting the system, I'm not sure, but sales after that were not good, the Duo bombed hard unfortunately. To that I'd add an unknown but probably small number of systems sold by TZD from 1994 on, but over 50,000 for the two combined is... unlikely, sadly, I think. Awesome system, it just didn't sell at all.
Though it introduced the TurboDuo, TTi had never had to manufacture more TurboGrafx-16 units; in fact, says Brandstetter, the last 100,000 to 200,000 U.S. consoles were unloaded on the Brazilian market, with their expansion ports disabled. The initial order NEC made in 1989 for 750,000 units never sold through to U.S. customers. As for the Duo? "Turbo Zone Direct had Duos for at least 10 years," Brandstetter says.
Cosmic Fantasy 2, a Telenet-developed CD-ROM RPG that Ireland released in 1992, sold "almost 1:1" with the TurboGrafx CD-ROM hardware NEC had released to the market prior to the introduction of the Duo, Ireland says (which is where the 20,000 unit install base figure comes from.)
Consoles cumulative shipment worldwide through the "Saturn years" (in million units):
Well, the figures are in the OP.Thanks for this, always wanted to see 3DO shipments + Saturn yearly sales.
Consoles cumulative shipment worldwide through the "Saturn years" (in million units):
The 3DO shipments don't make sense.
Why?
My mistake.You have 1.32 million shipped in 1985, but 3DO announced an install base of 500,000 mid way through the year, so that would mean that there were 820k 3DO units on shelves which doesn't make much sense. It wasn't selling anywhere well enough to have that many extra units shipped.
My mistake.
You are right 0,77M is for FY '95 and 1.32M for FY '96.