Was the NES the closest thing to a monopoly as a system can get?

[Blue Strife]

Viper1 said:

Blue Strife said:
But gaming wasnt so centered on consoles then.....I remember the gaming computers were far more popular that Nes in my country(swizterland).I remember the C64,the Schneider(Amstrad CPC),the MSX and the powerful ones the Atari ST and the Amiga.Those were the kings of gaming in Europe in the mid eighties.

Europe worked very differently than the US and Japan for gaming back then because it didn't experience the crash of '83.  This allowed computer/console hybrids to continue to sell unlike in the US and Japan where retailers feared for their lives at the concept of video game consoles.

 

 

 Yeah,but ,whatever the reason ,my points remains valid.The PS2 had a very powerful control over the three markets ....the Nes had a even more powerful control ..but only over two markets as its penetration in Europe was very very small until the very late 80s and even then it was beat by the Master System and the just released Megadrive.