Each Console's best year

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March 1995:

	Sony	Mar-1995	0.85 / 0.85	0.00 / 0.00	0.00 / 0.00	0.85 / 0.85
	Sega	Mar-1995	0.84 / 0.84	0.00 / 0.00	0.00 / 0.00	0.84 / 0.84

March 1996:

	Sony	Mar-1996	0.90 / 2.46	0.79 / 1.00	0.80 / 0.80	2.49 / 4.26
	Sega	Mar-1996	0.92 / 2.50	0.33 / 0.57	0.33 / 0.33	1.58 / 3.40

March 1997:

	Sony	Mar-1997	2.71 / 6.50	1.51 / 4.00	1.22 / 3.00	5.44 / 13.50
	Nintendo	Mar-1997	0.75 / 2.04	2.73 / 3.11	0.97 / 0.97	4.45 / 6.12

Sega

Mar-1997

0.89 / 4.80

0.87 / 1.70

0.54 / 1.06

2.30 / 7.56

March 1998:

Sony

Mar-1998

2.91 / 11.51

3.87 / 11.67

3.54 / 9.64

10.32 / 32.82

Nintendo

Mar-1998

0.68 / 3.15

3.02 / 9.81

0.94 / 3.18

4.64 / 16.14

Sega

Mar-1998

0.31 / 5.51

0.02 / 1.85

0.01 / 1.14

0.34 / 8.50

March 1999:

Sony

Mar-1999

2.11 / 15.26

4.55 / 20.62

4.62 / 18.54

11.28 / 54.42

Nintendo

Mar-1999

0.86 / 4.36

1.81 / 14.12

0.63 / 4.60

3.30 / 23.08

Sega

Mar-1999

0.00 / 5.74

0.00 / 1.87

0.00 / 1.15

0.06 / 8.82

If you take a close look the Playstation never came from behind to win ... It started off slowly against remarkably weak competition (the Saturn), built momentium and outsold the N64 in every fiscal year.