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DonFerrari on 29 December 2015
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johnsobas said:
DonFerrari said:
johnsobas said:

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.

I see... I was a kid at the time Mega Drive arrived here and they seemed equally sized companies, but I guess the arcade size of Sega could make them bigger.

well i didn't mean that sega was bigger than nintendo, just that they were much bigger back then.  I'm not really sure which was bigger because i can't find numbers for sega from back then.  Sega might have been bigger before the saturn came out.  Once pokemon caught on i'm sure Nintendo was far bigger from that point on.

No problem, I'll take your word that Sega could be bigger. But anedoctally I would say that at least on Europe they seemed more structured.



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