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ProSystem (Emulator) redirects here but doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the article. Can a mention be added (there was one when the redirect was recreated in 2018), or should the redirect go back to RfD? Pinging Deryck Chan who recreated it and may have some thoughts. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 14:18, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ping User:Dgpop who removed the entire "Emulation and homebrew" section last year. Deryck C. 23:01, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi. That section was an unsupported personal essay, with the only reference being for the emulator in question. I added it as an external link, so there's at least some mention of it for the redirect. Dgpop (talk) 17:13, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
"ProSystem (Emulator)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect ProSystem (Emulator) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 4#ProSystem (Emulator) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:59, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
3.77 million sales figure disputed
[edit]Atari's own sales figures do not support the idea that 3.77 million copies of the 7800 console were sold. Its North American sales were abysmal, only about 150,000 units in total, and Atari as a brand was dead and buried in Europe before the 7800 even came out there in 1988. Roughly 1.5 million of the total 8 million Sega Master System units sold were sold in North America; if the "12% of the 8-bit market" figure published in 1993 were accurate, it seems likely to me that that was of an 8-bit market that Sega had abandoned in 1991 and Nintendo had functionally all-but abandoned as soon as the Super Nintendo dropped that same year. It seems possible to reliably support the idea that total sales of Atari 7800 (i.e. consoles, peripherals, and games) reached 3.77 million units, but Atari's sales figures don't support an installed user base of 3.77 million consoles. KateBergerMpls (talk) 23:15, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- That 3.77 million figure does not seem to appear in the article. Why are you disputing it here?
- Besides, you are citing a number from a random question on an internet forum - that's not a good argument in any dispute. Read the reports attached on that forum by yourself. They show 3.77 million units sold and 151,000 units returned between 1986-1990, in the US alone. Krótki (talk) 07:39, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, 3.77 million is wrong. No, the number is not in the article. Yes, if the OP bothered to read the talk page archives they would know all this. No, this thread did not need to be created. I think that about sums it up. Indrian (talk) 16:59, 17 December 2024 (UTC)