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TWRoO on 11 June 2012
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sales2099 said:
CGI-Quality said:
sales2099 said:

But the sales gap between the SNES and the genesis was so huge! It was really one-sided.

The 360/PS3 rivalry, the sales are neck to neck almost, MS has stolen the 3rd party games and developers that Sony took for granted. 

And I can guarantee you 360/PS3 fans are by far the most fanatical gamers of any gen. 

Line 2 is debateable. We don't know what happened for sure with Sony and 3rd party devs. Bessides, Microsoft [admittedly) gunned for games once exclusive to Sony's platform.

Line 3 is also up for debate, but much less measurable.

Line 1 alone renders that rivalry moot. 

But with the internet the 360/PS3 fans all have a voice. Back then it was merely word of mouth

Which is exactly why the SNES/MD "war" was a bigger thing... the animosity between the two camps of gamers was worse than it is now between PS3 and 360 gamers, and that was managed without the massive help internet anonimity gives to fueling fanboy wars. Yes there is probably more badmouthing overall now due to online forums, but very little of it is truely serious... I mean on the internet people can get into heated debates about different types of bread, pretty much anything and everything can be a battle on a forum.

The sales gap wasn't as big during the middle of the generation (mainly because MegaDrive had a 2 year headstart, so SNES was catching up). Sure the PS3 and 360 sales are generally much closer, but not many gamers care about that... probably because a lot of them own both consoles anyway.

Fact is, the SNES/MD battle is still cooling down now, over 20 years since it started... wheras the PS3 vs. 360 battle i would say is already cooling down for the gamers, and is probably even over for Sony and MS themselves now as they have moved focus to next gen.... sure there were a lot of heated arguments early on before the Wii proved itself the victor, then I would say a lot of HD gamers kind of banded together to defend dual-analogue style gaming over motion control for a while, then when it was obvious the Wii was unstoppable they decided to go against each other for a bit again, but it kinda became a little half-hearted IMO... and didn't really pick up even when the Wii started faltering.

This is after all about the whole console rivalry, sales are a part of it of course, but the main battle is between the gamers of each camp, and then the company rivalry (which includes the sales battle)