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by Mike Schramm Aug 12th 2011 at 4:30PM

Marco Arment posted this graph today, which shows some relative sales numbers of what he calls "obscure game consoles" (which presumably just means those outside the Microsoft/Sony/Sega/Nintendo dominion) right up against tablets which aren't the iPad.

It's true -- the numbers do kind of put things in perspective about just how well non-iPad tablets are selling. We will also say that the TurboGrafx 16 launched at a price of US$249.99 way back in 1989, and you can compare for yourself just how inflation has matched that up against these other tablets. But sure, other than that: no comment.

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puhsitch

Yeah, 3 of the 7 game systems shown there are within the "Microsoft/Sony/Sega/Nintendo dominion" :)

Also, they should have included the Apple Pippin on that list!

August 13 2011 at 11:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hittrj01

Not to be nitpicking, but there are a couple of Sega systems on that chart (32X and Sega CD), which does fall in that Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony/Sega dominion you mentioned. In your defense, though, those were some of the biggest fails Sega ever delivered, so I would still classify them as "obscure".

August 12 2011 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Leonick

Which is why they are on the list :p they are obscure

August 13 2011 at 6:24 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Oletros

Why people don't remember graphs like this one or two years aho but with smartphones?

August 12 2011 at 5:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doug D

I love this chart -- I own four of the things listed on it.

August 12 2011 at 4:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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