Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

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RolStoppable said:

MikeB said:

@ RolStoppable

I don't know how to understand this sentence. Are you saying that Super Mario World is/was as graphically impressive as the Donkey Kong Country games or FX-chip supported games which used polygons like Star Fox and Stunt Race FX?

No Super Mario World was IMO the best Snes game, like IMO Mario64 was by far the best game for the Nintendo 64. Both launch games, I bought both consoles but I was hoping later games would top the launch games.

With regard to graphics I think you are referring to art direction. For Donkey Kong Country Raytracing was used to design its graphics, that's mainly why the game looked flashy for its time. I also owned F-Zero at launch and later Star Fox, IMO Star Fox didn't push the Snes hardware much further.

IMO the Amiga had no games that would justify owning one. IMO the SNES library was vastly superior to anything available for the Amiga. 

I believe these are the main reasons why the Amiga got killed by the SNES. 

IMO even the diehard Amiga fans, like MikeB, pirated Amiga games at an alarming rate. Factor 5 has stated that they only sold a few thousand copies of Turrican on the Amiga, despite the fact that every Amiga owner played it. Sega capitalized on the computer market in Europe with their advertisments (aka pirate radio), and Nintendo had plenty of unique Japanese games the likes of which the Amiga never had. Developers were more than happy to move to a platform with very little piracy, even though it had a smaller install base. Thats why you saw the Amiga, with millions of computers still in use, virtualy abandoned by most devs overnight.

Not to mention that the Amiga platform never advanced. PC was making major strides in hardware and software while Amiga recieved minor upgrades, not to mention PC was dropping in price quickly. Amiga just couldn't compete in the hardware sector either. So the devs that didn't care as much about piracy could make better games on MS-DOS. Qucikly, you saw Amiga games being DOS ports, just like most Amiga games from a few years earlier were ST ports.

Plus the people who ran the company were idiots