Here’s who won each console war

[SanAndreasX]

S.Peelman said:

SanAndreasX said:

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The console war is a marathon, not a sprint. Nintendo was able to go the distance with a strong overall library, Sega wasn't. Nintendo kept releasing strong games right up to the N64 launch, while Sega petered out well before the Saturn and PS1 launched and tried to fix their problems with the Sega CD and the 32X. So Nintendo's win in the 16-bit era was still a clean victory.

The Mega Drive was also released two or three years before, so the SNES caught up and pulled ahead nicely.

That's true enough, too, though I don't think the Genesis/MD really started to take off until Sonic the Hedgehog came out. But Christmas 1994 on the SNES was awesome. By that time, Sega had put the Genesis on the back burner while they focused on the Sega CD and the 32X and (in Japan) the Saturn.