Who here experienced the amazing 4th gen console wars ?

[Leynos]

d21lewis said:

Ka-pi96 said:
I don't think it even existed in Europe. I hadn't even heard of Nintendo until the N64 came out, granted I was super young at the time but my family did have a Mega Drive so it wasn't as if game consoles were an alien concept. They just didn't really seem particularly noteworthy until PS1/N64.

I often finding myself forgetting that the gaming landscape was/is different in other parts of the world. One of my favorite gaming channels (Top Hat Gaming Man) said that there wasn't even a gaming crash in other parts of the world and that Nintendo never even saved gaming outside of the US.

 To be fair tho the US market has always been the largest gaming market. So if NES failed in the US,gaming would look a lot different for everyone. Nintendo likely stuck to Japan after that and while I adore SEGA. They would not have had near the impact Nintendo did. Genesis was a direct response to NES success. So  SEGA would have probably given up after SMS failure.