| ChichiriMuyo said: Gen 4 - A rather close battle between 2 major competitors not far off from one another with the presence of some minor competitors. There was a lot of in-fighting between Sega and Nintendo (mosstly on Sega's part), but there were a lot of missteps by Sega and ALL of the minor competitors. Hell, Ninty had some missteps too. It wasn't a dominated generation, per say, but in the end the Genesis only looked good against the SNES because it had a significantly earlier launch. |
Nintendo did a lot of nasty infighting as well. Reffer to the 1994 ads for Donkey Kong Country where they slam every "next gen" consoles and sega for selling hardware which can't do what donkey kong does and the 1993 sports games ad, where they attack genesis for being inferior "paddle" compared to Snes being a speed motor boat.
In any case, Genesis mostly lost that gen cause it had no traction in Japan and cause Sega pulled the plug in early 1996 on manufacturing the console and games to concentrate on the saturn. Snes was sold until 1998.
Genesis (Mega Drive) easily beat Snes in sales in Europe and South america and was neck and neck in North America until 1996.
Needles to say, that is my favorite gen. So many choices for consoles and handhelds...so many different types of games.
People say that a lot of the consoles were crap but I had lots of fun with my Sega CD and I'm sure 3DO and Turbographix owners did the same. 32X and Jaguar owners on the other hand...
