Daily Finance has just declared "Game Over" for Nintendo

[sethnintendo]

RolStoppable said:

sethnintendo said:

Nintari said:

The Genesis launched in 1989. It was the number one 16bit console until late 1994. By 1995, the Satarn released so it's pretty safe to say the Genesis beat the SNES.

Sega Genesis sold about 40 million sold and SNES sold about 49 million.  How did the Genesis beat the SNES?  Are you arguing that within a certain time span the Genesis outsold the SNES?

The Genesis sold about 30 million units worldwide and it beat the SNES in EMEAA (9 vs. 8m). I think the SNES overtook the Genesis in America before the Saturn launched and in Japan the Genesis got totally crushed. That's where most of the 19m gap in worldwide sales comes from.

I got the ~40 million Genesis sold from wikipedia. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_genesis

Most places I look at state around 36-40 million.   I assume they are stating just the Genesis and not the add-on sales.