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Game-System Sales

  • ️Newsweek Staff
  • ️Mon Jan 15 1996

By Newsweek Staff / January 14 1996 7:00 PM

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WHILE A NEW GENERATION OF HOME GAME systems got all the hype in '95, the older 16-bit machines still jumped off the shelves. 

                                      1995 C.S SALES    SUGGESTED
                                      ESTIMATES       RETAIL PRICE
16-bit      Nintendo SNES             2.7 million          $100
            Sega Genesis              2.1 million           100
32-bit      Sega Saturn[*]            300,000               300
            Sony PlayStation[**]      550,000               300
            3DO                       250,000           200-300
64-bit   Atari Jaguar                 150,000               100

* INTRODUCED IN MAY. ** INTRODUCED IN SEPT. SOURCE: JEFRIES & CO., INC.