that's 1994-2006, 12 years. I want to know how many in total they sold.
this says in 2006 they sold 4.5 million computers, and implies that this is a recent high.
so... 12*4.5 = 54 million as a guess at an upper bound?
So here's the fun thing:
The Nintendo Wii sold 101 million consoles.
The Xbox 360 sold over 81 million consoles.
The Nintendo Gamecube and Wii U add another 21 million and 14 million consoles.
All those consoles are PowerPC!
WHICH MEANS that Apple only managed to ship enough PowerPC Macs to about match the Nintendo Wii.
And all three PowerPC Nintendo consoles easily outsold all PowerPC macs.
So if you had a PowerPC chip in your house, it was most likely Nintendo's fault, not Apple's.
@foone how dare you forget about my beloved PlayStation 3
87 million consoles, it just about outsold the Xbox 360
Counting my collection I’m at 6 PPC devices: 3 consoles, 3 Macintosh
@foone btw, ST and Freescale/NXP once worked together on a line of PowerPC automotive microcontrollers and ECUs
I don't have any sales numbers on these, but, they're probably also not that low either. maybe there's more PPC chips in people's cars than in people's homes!
@foone I have most of the aforementioned PowerPCs (lack the Gamecube, although I do group the Wii with that).
Also, my Turris 1.1 router is PowerPC. This toot goes from me to you through a PowerPC. That's guaranteed.
@foone joke is on you - got both a PowerMac G4 and a Wii. Apparently, both use reasonably similar CPUs.
TBF, only got the Wii because I got a bit over excited with my good results on PPC.
"It was a birthday present to my wife".
I did get some Zelda games for her, to sweeten the deal, but I end up doing much more homebrew on it then her going thru Hyrule.
@foone Similar calculations can be made for MOS' 6500 series.
The most sold 6500 computer the C64 totalled 12.5 m according to Michael Steil. Even tripling that to account for floppy drives makes it less than 40 m. Let's make it 50 to include all other 6502 based Commodore.
Famicom/NES alone sold 62m, SNES adding another 50m. Ataris 2600 only adds a mere 30m. So yes, chances are good that a 6500 in your house is a console ... except:
WDC claims:
"Annual volumes in the hundreds (100's) of millions of units keep adding in a significant way to the estimated shipped volumes of five (5) to ten (10) billion units."
A number dwarfing all consoles combined.
Bottom line, in average every human on this planes owns a 6500, without knowing about.
@oblomov Western Design Center, maker of 65xx CPUs.
@foone some of my PowerPCs are Cisco's fault (I think my 2811 and 2600s are PowerPC, if only some oddball SOC)
Of course I have a 2511, which has 68030 and can trace its vintage back to Cisco's first product.
@foone I haven't had a PowerPC Mac since I got rid of my PowerMac G5 back in (I think) 2010
However at present I have a GameCube, a Wii, a PlayStation 3, and a WiiU. No XBox 360 though.
I also want to shout out MIPS, which lives in N64, Playstation 1, Playstation 2 (which I have three of for dumb reasons, and each of those has *two* MIPS CPUs in it), and the Dingoo A320. Which has nothing to do with Apple but it's still funny that I have more of them than PowerPCs.