This article presents the most complete data on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive sales figures available on the internet until July 2020. It will be kept updated periodically. As with all other Sega hardware and games, the company never released the total sales for the Sega CD / Mega CD. Therefore, it took several years of work and research from different sources to arrive at the information presented here.
With 216 games and 6 million units sold worldwide the Sega Genesis add-on was more successful than just about every contemporary consoles, both in terms of the number of units sold and the number of games released:
3DO: 129 games; 2 million units;
Jaguar: 56 games; less than 250,000 units sold
Neo Geo AES: 145 games and 410,000 units sold;
Neo Geo CD: 13 games not released for the Neo Geo AES; 570,000 units sold;
Philips CD-i: 151 games; 570,000 units sold;
SuperGraphix: 5 games; 75,000 units sold;
Tandy Memorex Visual Interactive System: 11,000 units sold
PC-Fx: 9 games; 100,000 units;
Virtual Boy: 22 games and 770,000 unit sold;
Bandai Playdia: 33 games; 50,000 units sold
Apple Bandai Pippin: 24 games; 42,000 units sold;
Commodore CD-TV: 54,800 units sold;
Amstrad GX4000: less than 30 games sold;
PC-Engine Duo/ TurboDuo: 109 games; 1.92 million units sold
In addition, it should be remembered that it is an add-on to Genesis / Mega Drive and adds these 216 titles to the already huge library of that console of more than 1,000 games. Considering the sales of other add-ons and the number of games released, the Sega CD can be considered the best selling add-on of all time:
Sega CD / Mega CD: 260 games, 6 million units sold
Jaguar CD: 11 games; 20,000 units sold;
CDROM² + TurboGrafx-CD: 50 games; between 500,000 and 1 million units sold
SuperGrafx Super-CD-ROM² + PC Engine Super-CD-ROM²: 109 games; between 50,000-100,000 u
Arcade Card Duo and Arcade Card Pro: 9 games.
LD-ROM2 (LaserActive PAC): 11 games; between 1,000 and 5,000 units sold
Nintendo 64 DD: 9 games; 15,000 units sold.
Wrongly advertised only by FMV or arcade games, in fact most of the best Sega-CD / Mega-CD games are adventures and RPGs. Unfortunately, many of them were restricted to Japan, partly because of the large amount of voice acting that would need to be dubbed into English or other languages. The large number of adventures and RPGs with voice acting in Japanese or English was also a barrier to the further popularization of the Sega CD to countries with other idioms. Although Sega Genesis / Mega Drive was in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, it was also the most popular in all other markets in the world, where understanding the English language without subtitles is a barrier for many players.
The Sega CD can be considered the father of Sega Saturn and the PlayStation, as it was here that both Sony and Sega made their first experiments with CD games. So much so that Sony offered Sega an agreement to develop the PlayStation together, an invitation that was refused by Sega.
Worldwide sales figures (1991-1996): 6 million units
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_games#cite_note-digest_1995-41
Part 1 - Including only model 1 and 2 without considering other licensed variations:
As these are not official Sega sales figures, even the available figures are likely to be underestimated.
Japan:
1991: 200,000
1992: 80,000
1993: 420,000
1994: 150,000
1995: unknown
1996: unknown
Total: unknown
Reference:
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_games
USA*:
1992: 220,000
1993: 1,080,000
1994: 200,000 (incomplete data)
1995: unknown
1996: unknown
Total: unknown
* It is not clear whether Canada and Mexico were included. In Canada, the person responsible for distributing Sega video games was Irwin Toy (1987-1993) and then Sega of Canada (1993-present)
Reference:
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_games
Western Europe:
1993: 210,000
1994: 205,000
1995: unknown
1996: unknown
Total: unknown
Reference:
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Fourth_generation_of_video_games
Brazil ( manufactured by Tectoy and licensed by Sega ):
1993-1995: 30,000
Reference:
https://www.sega-16.com/2015/
1992-1995: unknown
around 10,000 (as CD Aladdin Boy)
around 10,000 (as CD Aladdin Boy 2)
References:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/cd-aladdin-boy
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/cd-aladdin-boy-2
Australia: (by Ozi Soft an later Sega Ozi Soft and licensed by Sega)
1993-Sep 1994: 20,000
Oct 1994 - Dec 1995: unknown
Total: unknown
https://retrocdn.net/images/c/cb/Sega_MegaZone_45_Nov_94.pdf, page 23
Part 2 - Other licensed variations:
As these are not official Sega sales figures, even the available figures are likely to be underestimated.
Sega Multi-Mega/Genesis CDX Console (Mega Drive + Mega-CD / Japan, 1994)
Around 50,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/sega-multi-mega-genesis-cdx
Sega Multi-Mega/Genesis CDX (other regions, 1994)
unknown sales figures
Sega Wondermega Victor RG-M1 (Mega Drive + Mega-CD / Japan, 1992)
Around 50,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/wondermega-victor-rg-m1
Sega Wondermega Victor RG-M2 (Mega Drive + Mega-CD / Japan, 1992)
Around 50,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/wondermega-victor-rg-m2
Wondermega Sega Model (Mega Drive + Mega-CD / Japan, 1992):
Around 1,000 units
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/sega-wondermega
JVC Genesis X'eye Blue Console (Sega Genesis + Sega CD, USA, 1994)
Around 5,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/wonderswan-jvc-xeye-rg-m10-bu-blue-box
JVC Genesis X'eye Red (Sega Genesis + Sega CD, USA, 1994)
Around 5,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/wonderswan-jvc-xeye-rg-m10-bu-red-box
Sega Mega CD Aiwa CSD-GM1 (Japan, 1994)
Around 5,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/aiwa-csd-gm1
Sega CD Genesis Development Kit (USA, 1992)
Around 1,000 units
Reference:
https://consolevariations.com/variation/console/sega-cd-genesis-dev-kit
LaserActive Mega LD PAC (PAC-S1 / PAC-S10, Japan, 1993)
LaserActive Sega Genesis - Sega CD PAC (USA, 1993)
Pioneer Electronics (USA) and Sega Enterprises released this module that allows users to play 8-inch and 12-inch LaserActive Mega LD discs, in addition to standard Mega / Sega CD discs and Mega Drive / Genesis cartridges, as well as CD + G discs. It was the most popular add-on bought by the greater part of the LaserActive owners (1993-1996). It comes with a LaserActive-branded version of Sega's 6-button control pad (CPD-S1).
Sales figures: almost 420,000 units sold
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserActive#PAC_modules
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