RolStoppable said: Which part of my post are you refering too? I guess the first paragraph? In that case I have to say that Nintendo had control over japanese publishers (either make games exclusive for our system or don't make games for us at all), so Sega never could get their games, thus the Genesis never could take off in Japan. The lack of big japanese games also had an impact on american sales of the Genesis. Sadly, the shipment data of VGChartz doesn't go back far enough to be sure how big the lead of the Genesis was once the SNES launched, but by March 1993, the Genesis had shipped 14.9m units worldwide. So it's likely that the actual lead of the Genesis was in the range of 3-5m by the time the SNES launched. |
I think you are confusing the Sega Genesis (Sega Mega Drive) with the Sega Master System, which was deterred from a lot of third party support due to the little "monopoly" Nintendo had enacted. If anything, Genesis saw an exodus of developers, who once only made games for the Nintendo.
And yes, my post was directed at your first paragraph because the Genesis sold considerably well early-on, it had a bigger library compared to the SNES even during the SNES's second year, in some cases it sold more than the SNES because the SNES cost more, yet, even before Sega started investing in the Sega CD and all those other crappy add-ons, people claim that Sega's marketshare wasn't all that commanding: 51:49.
Sega did everything right, yet it wasn't enough as the SNES was catching up.
