| Darc Requiem said: Famine the Mega Drive never sold well in Japan. It got crushed by the Super Famicom. The Mega Drive had virtually no Japanese RPG support. In fact virtually all of the Mega Drive's rpg's were from Sega's internal studios. The PC-Engine (Turbo Graphix 16) out sold the Mega Drive in Japan. During the 16-bit era Japan was still the most important gaming market. Sega had no presence there. In fact the only Sega system that ever performed well in Japan was the Saturn. |
With all due respect, those RPGs weren't available from the getgo on the SNES. The SNES launched with two games and that was enough to stir a whirlwind there, and still by '92, the Genesis still had a bigger game catalogue than the SNES.
I don't think Japan was still the most important gaming market because even with the Mega Drive not selling in Japan, it had great success in North America, and it had much better success in Europe than Nintendo for sure.
And how dare you not mention the Dreamcast, didn't they just stop making games for it only a few months ago?
