The PS1: The Biggest Turnaround in Console History?

[johnsobas]

DonFerrari said:

johnsobas said:

DonFerrari said:

SpokenTruth said:

People have to understand that Sony was already a massive consumer electronics corporation back then.  They had major retail, distribution, warehousing, wholesales, marketing, etc...all set up in Europe (and elsewhere) that a small company like Nintendo simply couldn't do.  Better stated, Sony was set up to be successful in Europe before the PS even existed.  That's not to take away what Sony accomplished, but to elaborate on why Nintendo never could replicate that even if they wanted to.

Smaller company Sega done better than Nintendo in Europe as well... the always "small Nintendo" excuse can't excuse everything... a company that sells 150M DS and people excuse them having third party representatives in Brazil because they are too humble. I know smaller companies (that profit less than 100M yearly that export and develope more countries than Nintendo).

Not really a good comparison,  Genesis barely outsold the SNES.  PS1 sold 37 million, genesis sold 8 million.  These are not even close to the same level of success.

Seing that the discussion is that Nintendo is too small to sell in Europe smaller Sega outselling it kind of denies the excuse.

uh...it barely outsold it at all in Europe.  Kinda like the SNES barely outsold the genesis in the US.  The numbers are barely any different for either territory.