Sega Genesis
Sega sold 30.75 million Genesis units worldwide. Of these, 3.58 million were sold in Japan, and sales in Europe and the U.S. are roughly estimated at 8 million and 18–18.5 million as of June 1997 (at which time Sega was no longer manufacturing the system) respectively. In 1998, Sega licensed the Genesis to Majesco Entertainment in North America so it could re-release the console. Majesco began reselling millions of formerly unsold cartridges at a budget price, together with 150,000 units of the second model of the Genesis. It released the Sega Genesis 3, projecting to sell 1.5 million units of the console by the end of 1998. An estimated 3 million Genesis units were sold by Tec Toy in Brazil.
Ninja Gaiden (2004 video game)
Consumers purchased 1.5 million copies of "Ninja Gaiden" and "Black" to August 2007, with the bulk of these sales going to North America and Europe. According to the NPD Group, in its first month "Ninja Gaiden" sold 362,441 copies in the United States. By August 2006, "Ninja Gaiden" had sold 550,000 copies and earned $27 million in that country. Between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 100th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube consoles in the United States. Combined sales of "Ninja Gaiden" and "Black" reached 800,000 units in the United States by August 2006. These sales figures reflect Tecmo's decision to target the non-Japanese market. Japanese gamers were not particularly excited—according to Itagaki, only 60,000 copies of "Ninja Gaiden" were sold in Japan in the four months following its release. The critical and commercial successes of "Ninja Gaiden" have led CNET and GameSpot Asia to induct the game into their halls of fame.