It's no secret that the majority of our userbase here at VGChartz are either Nintendo or Playstation fans.

But if we remove these two dominant brands from the equation for a moment, which do you prefer out of the next two biggest, Xbox and Sega? (As hardware manufacturers, so basically 1985-2001 Sega, not 2002-present Sega)

thats a tough call. Sega attempted to do a lot more, but in the end they were too ambitious (too many consoles, overly competitive with Nintendo) and it led to their downfall. Microsoft has been playing it annoyingly safe (no Xbox exclusives) but they have the potential to do so much more.

I really did enjoy the XB, and the 360. Until I didn't. Plus I more or less equally enjoyed the Genny and DC. The blinding hate for the parent company is the determining factor for me. I'll take Sega with a Seaman launch bundle over MS ever having existed.

Sega. Not only did they make great hardware, except the Saturn.... they were some of the best game developers around in terms of 1st party.

Xbox has definitely been the better console brand over Sega since the latter lost a lot of it's magic after the Genesis ...

Probably Xbox. The 360 is just amazing. Sega wasn't really great after the Genesis.

Sega consoles failed to impress me. Nintendo always did things better. I never brought an OG Xbox however from what i hear the DC was inferior to it in every possible way.
That plus Sega failed to deliever on the 1st party front while Xbox didnt. All Sega had was the name.
Besides Xbox is the spiritual successor to Sega. Basically took over when Sega departed.

Sega stopped being good at the half way mark of the Genisis's life. 32X and Sega CD was Sega's downfall before the Saturn even released.

I never enjoyed Sega consoles too much. The Dreamcast was nice, but also a little derpy with the giant ass controller and that virtual memory thingy.

I had my fair share of trouble with Microsofts offerings. The Xbox 360 was just terrible in my opinion. I had to send that sucker in 9 friggin' times! It's really not funny anymore. It was so bad that I have never even touched an Xbox One until this very day. But that said, the original Xbox is one of my favourite consoles of all time. It was an absolute beast at its time, declassing PS2 and the Gamecube. The games looked gorgeous and it was quite a miracle back then to play Morrowind in such shiny graphics on a console for example. I really liked that one and just because the first Xbox was so fucking great, I'm gonna give this one to Microsoft.

Sega. Xbox is a non factor.