PortisheadBiscuit said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
From 1991-1994, Sega dominated. I've talked with SOA head of marketing Al Nilsen and he confirmed that during that period, kids were voting for Sonic over Mario in all their tests. Market research showed that Sonic was more well known than the President of the United States. He was the number one mascot of the 16-bit era in the US by far.
As far as over all sales, it wasn't until late 1994, when Sega had internally shifted all resources to the Saturn and thus, left the gen that Nintendo started really gaining. The over all numbers are hard to come by. I have documents that show it won the US, but there are others who claim that the SNES eventually over took it but to me, that's pointless.
A race is run and the results only matter as long as they're both in the race. If one leaves the race ahead, on their own accord, to race a different race... does the person who is losing the race win? Technically, sure. But not really. Sega left the 16-bit generation winning.
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Seems like a bit of horse pucky here.
Super Mario World alone outsold Sonic 1, 2, and 3 combined in N. America 12.78 million to 8.52 million
Sega Genesis debuted a full 2 years before the SNES in the U.S., so SNES catching up in sales after Saturn debuted seems like a level playing field
GProgrammer said:
Yes SNES outsold the Genesis 20 million to 18.5 Million
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Just as I thought, very close in terms of sales with Genesis losing
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http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/
