700 million was hit a year ago though?
Really needs VB, Color TV Game, and Pokemon mini added, though they's only add a couple of million.
Game & Watch possibly too, though maybe they should count as games sold rather than consoles.
3DS is like 22 million in NA, it's smaller in absolute terms, let alone relative. 3DS total vs NES is bolstered by being Japan's dominant platform most of its life and the Nintendo not having gotten into Europe yet in any serious at the time of the NES.
Really needs VB, Color TV Game, and Pokemon mini added, though they's only add a couple of million.
Game & Watch possibly too, though maybe they should count as games sold rather than consoles.
No? The poster was talking about America. The NES so ~35 million on North America - aka in the same ballpark scale-wise as PS1 and Wii - when everything else sold basically zero. It dominated like nothing ever has before or since. The market wasn't 'much smaller', inflation adjusted (or even just population adjusted) it was probably somewhat similar to today. It's just there was no viable competition.It's because the video game market was much, MUCH smaller back in the 1980's-1990's...it was a tiny fraction of today's size. Back then if you sold 50-60 million consoles you ruled the entire gaming world, when today that would be considered average / decent.
3DS is like 22 million in NA, it's smaller in absolute terms, let alone relative. 3DS total vs NES is bolstered by being Japan's dominant platform most of its life and the Nintendo not having gotten into Europe yet in any serious at the time of the NES.