So it happened - my first Playstation is coming to me...

[S.T.A.G.E.]

walsufnir said:

No the reasons were different back then. Sega was in competition only with Nintendo before and Sony rushed into the market with a lot of money - more than you would imagine for a rather small market back then. Sega did some last-minute changes to Saturn (yes, dam similarities :D) but had the inferior 3d-hardware and were also more expensive (again, dam sim... you get it?) but the main reason was especially marketing.

Playstation was *everywhere* in Europe. TV-ads, magazines, events, formula1-races... Everywhere Playstation. Sega had absolutely no chance to market their system in an equal way and so the money won that generation. Once the Playstation established itself it was a very rich and nice generation, like I said before.

Hmmmm...interesting. I thought the cause of Sega freaking out though was because Sony revealed a much lower price point than both Nintendo and Sega for their consoles and they couldnt compete. When Sony revealed their stance and offerings, Sega blinsided everyone by launching months ahead of time and with limited consoles to boot. They pissed off consumers, retailers and developers who werent prepared to properly launch for them. 

I guess its a little bit of both.

P.S.

Also, Sonys games were twenty dollars cheaper than Nintendos games.