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PC Engine Mini / TurboGrafx-16 Mini

NEC and Hudson (PC Engine) · Launched in 2020

Family
NEC and Hudson (PC Engine)
Launch
2020
Type
Home console
In the family
#4 of 4 in launch order

No sales figure for this device from a checked source.

About the family

The PC Engine launched in Japan on October 30, 1987, made by NEC with Hudson Soft, which designed the chips. Games came on credit-card-sized HuCards, and the CD-ROM add-on arrived in 1988. According to Nintendo Life, by the end of 1988 it was Japan's best-selling console. In the United States it was called the TurboGrafx-16 and did far less well; in Europe it stayed an import. The more powerful SuperGrafx followed in 1989 and the Duo in 1991. Konami, which bought Hudson in 2011, released a mini version in 2020.

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Sources

Numbers checked against the sources below on 08/11/2026. These are the figures the companies publish for investors; Nintendo updates them every quarter, and Sony shows the latest figure released for each device, with different dates.

  1. Time Extension, The PC Engine is now 35 years old (31/10/2022)
  2. Nintendo Life, The making of the PC Engine (02/11/2012)