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thismeintiel said:
DanneSandin said:
thismeintiel said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Closing a 10 million console gap is still a comeback in my eyes. 

Especially since it's the first time it has been accomplished.  And with so much going against the console from the start.

What about the SNES then? Did that console make a comeback?

Did the SNES launch to an already established Gensis gap of ~7M?  Doubt it, considering the Genesis took 10 years to sell ~40M units and sales only really took off around the SNES launched.  Was the SNES ~$200 more than the Genesis?  Impossible, since the SNES launched for $200.  Did the SNES suffer from bad gaming press and a negative image from the general gaming public?  Nah.  Only Sega fans really bashed it.  Did it get poor 1st party and 3rd party support for the first 2 years?  Nope, it received great support from the get go.  Not exactly the same situation, at all.

You can't just apply what's happening today with what happened nearly 25 years ago. The video game market wasn't as big, so a 10m gap back then would have been MUCH bigger. That would have been comparable to something like 30m now!! Really bad analogy there. And the SNES was priced higher than Genesis, how much I don't know. And did it suffer from bad publicity? Dude. This gens console wars ain't got nothing on the console wars back in the early 90's. "Sega does what Nintendon't" - ever heard of that? Or "Blast processing". Genesis was for all the cool kids, while NIntendo was for all the kids and dorks.

I'm not discussing THIS point with you any further, because you seem quite ignorant about the whole matter.



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