PortisheadBiscuit said:
Sonic more popular than Mario? Extremely debatable Sega owning the U.S. during the 16bit era?? Also debatable and more than likely false. I'd love to see sales figures, could've sworn the pie was 55/45 or something along those lines. |
From 1991-1994, Sega dominated. I've talked with SOA head of marketing Al Nilsen and he confirmed that during that period, kids were voting for Sonic over Mario in all their tests. Market research showed that Sonic was more well known than the President of the United States. He was the number one mascot of the 16-bit era in the US by far.
As far as over all sales, it wasn't until late 1994, when Sega had internally shifted all resources to the Saturn and thus, left the gen that Nintendo started really gaining. The over all numbers are hard to come by. I have documents that show it won the US, but there are others who claim that the SNES eventually over took it but to me, that's pointless.
A race is run and the results only matter as long as they're both in the race. If one leaves the race ahead, on their own accord, to race a different race... does the person who is losing the race win? Technically, sure. But not really. Sega left the 16-bit generation winning.
