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Words Of Wisdom on 04 February 2009
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Gnizmo said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Actually, for a good while the NES and Genesis were directly competing with one another.  Keep in mind that the Super Nintendo was released almost two full years after the Genesis in Japan and pretty much in response to the Genesis.

 And for a good while the PS2 and N64 were competing against each other. Same with the PS1 and SNES, 360 and PS2, and a number of other combinations across various generations. That doesn't make my statement any less true though. The Genesis and SNES were the same generation, and the Genesis was weaker.

You realize that "console generations" are just artificial dividers for alike spec'd machines within similar time frames right?  It's not wrong to say the Genesis was in competition with the NES during 1988 to 1990 any more than it would be to say the 360 was in competition with the PS2 and Gamecube during its first year.

I wasn't disagreeing with your statement of spec comparison (Genesis was weaker in everything but the processor), just your statement of competition.