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prayformojo on 08 February 2013
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Aielyn said:
prayformojo said:
Anyone who knows their history knows that the Gensis outsold the SNES until DKC released. Sega abandoned the Genesis shortly after, releasing the ill fated Saturn which allowed the SNES to reap the rewards until 1996. Yes, the SNES "won", but it was far from dominant. Nintendo's only had two dominant consoles, the NES and Wii. 

I question anything that bases itself on "everybody knows that...". You claim that the Genesis outsold the SNES until DKC released. Do you have numbers to back this up? Are the numbers worldwide or American?

Note that, according to VGChartz, the SNES outsold the Genesis by almost a factor of 5 in Japan. This is just one example of why I suspect that your information is from US only.

The SNES only won in Japan, as far as I know. The Genesis outsold it in Europe and the US, where it sold 20 million units. Having said that, the SNES didn't pull ahead and destroy the Genesis until Sega had pretty much moved on with the Sega Cd and 32X/Saturn non sense. Either way you spin it, it's far from dominance.

http://segatastic.blogspot.com/2009/12/mega-drive-sales-figures-update.html (there are links to sales data there)