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AngryLittleAlchemist on 30 September 2017
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RolStoppable said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
I was watching videos on the history of gaming in Europe today. It's very interesting to hear how Europe has always been a competitive market for alternatives. Apparently Sega was huge in Europe and instead of Sega trying to conquer Nintendo, Nintendo was trying conquer Sega. The gaming history there seems super interesting.

Fictional history tends to be interesting.

In reality Sega wasn't huge in Europe. The NES sold clearly better than the Master System, the SNES and Mega Drive had Sega marginally ahead (8m vs. 9m, Sega had a two year headstart in that generation), the N64 easily beat the Saturn. It's really not too different from North America where those three generations align pretty much in the same way, except that the SNES had a marginal lead over the Genesis.

The two year headstart didn't make them win in America. And of course the Saturn lost .... the video was about the Master System and Mega Drive.