UltimateUnknown on 26 April 2014
| pokoko said: I didn't realize that the Genesis did that well. I also didn't realize that the PS1 dominated to that degree. Also, everyone loves a winner. Many people will buy the most popular product simply because it is the most popular product. This allows momentum to snowball. As someone who has worked in retail for years, one phrase I hear over and over is, "they say this is good." That is often the only criteria some people use when choosing between products. |
Genesis did about 30mil, not 40mil. I wrote it wrong initially, so that may change your opinion. It still did relatively well coming out of the NES domination days given that Nintendo sold about 50 million SNES and Sega sold 30 million Genesis.
It's interesting what you pointed out. I didn't know that just "them" saying its good could get people to go out and buy a console. Word of mouth is quite a big things among the less hardcore.
