The PS1: The Biggest Turnaround in Console History?

[johnsobas]

DonFerrari said:

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

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).

Yes, Sega did better.  But only marginally so.  And Sega and Nintendo were about the same size back then too.  However, the difference in Nintendo and Sega's success in Europe was small compared the massive success that Sony attained and it was thanks to the infrastructure Sony already had in place because it was already a global consumer electronics power house.  You cannot ignore that as a factor.

The Brazil issue is very unique because of the import/export tax system.  Requiring the device to be manufactured in the country just to sell at a normal retail price wholly alters the traditional global distribution ecosystem for Brazil.

Nintendo having being massive on the previous gen were same size as Sega, are you sure of that? And what harrassed Nintendo was the lack of WW view not the lack of distribution centers. Or after 30 years in the market their faint presence in South America and Europe is still due too being too small?

And yes for Megadrive (tectoy produced) and SNES (gradient produced) to lower tax that is a good excuse. But with WiiU they didn't had any production in here, but still had a 3rd part to represent them on all of Latin America, and with small sales they just pulled the plug of WiiU and 3DS in the country (besides the very lousy pricing policies). Nintendo don't have any focus in the region for several years, perhaps since they started losing ground on N64 they left much to be desired (And anedoctal would be that SNES and Mega Drive fought equally in here), NES wasn't officialy launched and we had several knock offs here that made a lot of success and if Nintendo opened the eyes to the market they could have got an iron grip.

i can't find the numbers for sega but Nintendo was much smaller back then, and sega was bigger.  The genesis was big and more importantly arcades were a force worldwide which was sega's main business.  Now they operate almost entirely in Japan for arcades.