Favorite Console War?

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OdinHades said:

While I liked the games from the SNES more, in terms of actual console war, the PS3 era was way more fun. But that's just because as a kid I personally didn't notice much of a fight between SNES and Mega Drive. The numbers on this site say that Sega sold more consoles in europe than Nintendo. But at least in germany, interest in Sega seemed minimal. I still remember seeing a Mega Drive bundle in my local store that was reduced multiple times and still was sitting on the shelf. Nintendo absolutely dominated back in the day, in my sphere of influence at least.

PS3 and X360 were shockingly close and the race really motivated Sony and Microsoft to go great lengths. We were just bombarded with great games left and right, good times. Nowadays we get a fucking loot shooter every now and then and that's it. I kinda miss console wars, I must say.

In the US, Sega did better at first, with their climax being a resounding victory over Nintendo in 1993. Part of that was the Mortal Kombat SNES debacle.

By the next year, Nintendo was fighting back hard, and ultimately took the crown. 1994 was loaded with amazing SNES games, including an uncensored port of MK2. The first three years of SNES were also amazing, though. A Link to the Past FTW.