thismeintiel on 14 April 2013
| TheLastStarFighter said: No one has debunked anything, and people keep putting up wrong numbers: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2009/03/20/genesis-vs-snes-by-the-numbers Genesis was selling at a greater pace than SNES in the US in the early years. Catchy adverstising and campaigns suggesting SNES was slower than Genesis had some mocking the Nintendo cosole. Then with great third party support and the launch of Donkey Kong Country SNES surged ahead and didn't look back. I consider a 3rd to 1st comeback to be significantly bigger than a 3rd to 3rd or maybe 2nd comeback. SNES went from being mocked to dominance. PS3 went from being mocked to respectable. |
SNES was only mocked by die hard Genesis fans, not the majority of the gaming public/journalists. So again, not exactly the same situation.
@ BHR-3
While VGC has the gap down to 1M, I'm sure the real gap is either much slimmer or has disappeared completely by now. We'll have to wait til financials are out to know for sure, though. And as Max said, those last two have NOTHING to do with a comeback. I do think it's quite impressive that the PS3 went from selling quite poorly to become the top selling home console for the last 2 years, with this year making it 3.
