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Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sega’s only console success was Mega Drive/Genesis.

i mean that's really only true in the northwest. the master system was huge in south america and the saturn was a bigger success than the mega drive was in japan

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The numbers I can find of Master System is that it sold between 10 to 13 million units worldwide, so not that much better compared to the short lifespan of Dreamcast.

Mega Drive’s sales numbers isn’t too far off from SNES.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

10-13 not including the additional 8 million Tectoy sales, which together meets or exceeds the Saturn and Dreamcast sales combined (with the former outselling the latter)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles