The Greatest Console Rivalry of All Time

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the_dengle said:

It's not a rivalry if you lose. SNES sold a clean 20 mil more consoles than Genesis, and more than twice as much software. Hey, I loved that gen as much as the next guy (I was a Genesis owner myself), but that rivalry -- while legendary -- was extremely unbalanced compared to the 360/PS3 rivalry of today. The growing number of multiplatform games is fuel for the fire -- not only do fans simply debate which exclusives are better, but which version of the same game is superior. These battles are fought primarily on an entirely new battleground: the internet. Heated discussions between friends have made way for lengthy arguments between total strangers. New weapons and targets complicate fandom warfare: screen cap comparisons, hardware durability, network security, cost effectiveness. DualShock vs a knockoff. Move vs Kinect. RROD vs PSN hack. XBL vs PS+.

For sure, SNES vs Genesis is the only one that comes close. But PS3 vs 360 is going down to the wire. It's at least closer, if not more heated, than the 4th gen war. One inhibitor to the current-gen war is the number of gamers who own both consoles and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of each.

So ... World War II didn't happen because the Allies won?  I hope you understand how silly that is. 

SNES ended up with a big lead but most of it was simply by outlasting the Genesis.  Although, to be fair, [edit:  the Genesis] also had a head start, so you could say the whole battle was one of the SNES trying (ultimately successfully) to defeat the Genesis, which was then in the process of defeating the NES.  But believe you me, the rivalry was there.  Did you even look at the videos lewis posted?