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While Sega sold 500,000 units in Europe by Christmas 1999, [157] sales there slowed, and by October 2000 Sega had sold only about a million units. [179] Though the Dreamcast was successful, Sony's PlayStation still held 60 percent of the overall market share in North America at the end of 1999. [177]
By January 2022, Sega sold the remaining portion of this division to Genda. [411] Sega Amusement International was sold via a management buyout to Kaizen Entertainment, however the Sega brand will still be used for all games and the company name remains through a royalty agreement. [412]
The following table contains video game consoles that have sold at least 1 million units worldwide either through to ... Sega: 1988 30.75 million [note 4] Atari 2600:
Units sold Date of figure Sega Mega Drive September 1990 8,320,000+ [b] June 1996 Nintendo NES September 1986 8,025,000 [c] 1994 Sega Master System June 1987
In 1988, Sega released the Genesis (known as the Mega Drive in most countries outside North America), in the fourth generation of video game consoles. [1] It became the most successful Sega console ever, at 30.75 million units sold. [2]
Sega's official logo. Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world.The company has produced home video game consoles and handheld consoles since 1983; these systems were released from the third console generation to the sixth.
The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive [b] outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega released it in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis.
The console was never popular in Japan (being regularly outsold by the PC Engine), but still managed to sell 40 million units worldwide. By late 1995, Sega was supporting five different consoles and two add-ons, and Sega Enterprises chose to discontinue the Mega Drive in Japan to concentrate on the new Sega Saturn. [14]