Has any console maker came back from 3rd place to 1st or 2nd?

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MikeB said:
@ RolStoppable

Sonic the Hedgehog wasn't a launch game, it came out nearly 3 years after the Genesis launched and you should finally admit that the DKC games were technically vastly superior to Super Mario World.

OK I stand corrected, but the console was released much later here in Europe. Sonic the Hedgehog I believe was the primary reason why the Mega Drive sold well over here.

With regard to DKC games... IMO mainly pre-rendered graphics vs ordinary handdrawn cartoony-like graphics.

We really should remove the "Align launches" checkbox. It's meaningless. It doesn't matter what happens when you align the launches, because that's not the real world situation. The real world situation was that the PS had too much of a lead, the N64 only outsold it for a 3 or 4 of weeks at launch and then the PS was outselling the N64. The reality was that PS had more many more users and was selling more units weekly than the N64. The N64 never looked like catching up. Now, uncheck that "Align Launches" button. It doesn't mean anything. Good boy.

I believe that America is a slightly different story, but I can't check due to lack of American data for th N64 vs PS