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Originally called TV Game Unit #7, much like the "Pump Unit" before it, it became far better known by its nickname, “The Brown Box.” The name comes from the brown wood-grain, self-adhesive vinyl used to make the prototype look more attractive to potential investors. In an oral history interview, Ralph Baer recalled “The minute we played ping-pong, we knew we had a product.
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Since Sanders hoped to license the technology for a commercial venture, Baer understood that the games had to be fun or investors and consumers would not be interested. developed a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. In 1967, Ralph Baer and his colleagues at Sanders Associates, Inc. This machine paved the way for the video games of today. "The company has stopped producing its 5200 SuperSystem games player, more than 1 million of which were sold.Ralp H. "Atari Introduces Game In Attempt for Survival".
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Invisible engines: how software platforms drive innovation and transform industries ( ed.). Hagiu, Andrei Schmalensee, Richard (2006). ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Third generation of video games: Sales figures.Archived from the original on July 9, 2007. ↑ Gamers Catch Their Breath as Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Reinvent Next-Generation Gaming.↑ SIE Business Development | Sales as of September 30, 2021.
3.8 million were shipped from 2014 to the first quarter of 2015.
The consoles with the highest number of software units sold are Sony's PlayStation 2 and PlayStation, each with software sales exceeding 900 million units. The following table lists the number of software units sold, and the software attach rate (software units sold per console), for each console. A console's success thus depends more on the software sales than the hardware sales.
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Since most consoles usually sell the hardware at a loss and the software at a profit, it is mostly software sales that drives a console's profits, while the purpose of hardware sales is to establish an install base to sell software to.
Software sales is usually a stronger indicator of a console's success than hardware sales. Handheld consoles Main article: List of best-selling handheld consoles Manufacturer
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PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 (including add-ons) Hardware sales Home consoles Manufacturer