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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 6,800,000 [d] 1994 Nintendo SNES June 1992 5,280,000+ [e] 1998 Sega Mega CD April 2, 1993 415,000 [17] 1994
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.
Million-selling game consoles Platform Type Firm Released Units sold Ref. PlayStation 2: Home Sony: 2000 >160 million [1]Nintendo DS: Handheld Nintendo
Nintendo's fourth-generation console, the Super Famicom, was released in Japan on November 21, 1990; Nintendo's initial shipment of 300,000 units sold out within hours. [16] The machine reached North America as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System on August 23, 1991, [ cn 1 ] and Europe and Australia in April 1992.
On November 27, 1998, the Dreamcast launched in Japan at a price of JP¥29,000, and the entire stock sold out by the end of the day. However, of the four games available at launch, only one—a port of Virtua Fighter 3, the most successful arcade game Sega ever released in Japan—sold well. [244]
Sega workers become the first major video game company in the nation to get a union contract.
The cassowary looks like a relic from another geologic era – it’s as tall as a person, has glossy black feathers and piercing eyes, walks on two feet, can weigh up to 140 pounds, and has a ...
Sega Genesis, along with its controller. This is a list of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive video games that have sold or shipped at least one million copies, sorted in order of copies sold. The best-selling title is Sonic the Hedgehog, first released in North America on June 23, 1991. Due to being bundled with the console, it sold 15 million copies.