Which Console Wars was better? SNES vs Sega Genesis or PS3 vs Xbox 360?

[Mr_No]

Turkish said:

kupomogli said:
PS3 vs 360.

SNES won by a landslide because of Nintendo's tactics forcing major third party developers to develop games exclusvely for them. There was really no war with the SNES vs Genesis, it was a massacre.

You must be young and not witnessed the war. It was not a massacre, it was a close race. The Megadrive was not very far off from the sales of the Snes.

I'm wondering... back then, without the internet as we know it today, were there any reliable source that showed the sales both consoles made?