Favorite Console War?

[SanAndreasX]

JackHandy said:

SanAndreasX said:

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.

While it's true that the SNES caught up to, and then edged passed the Genesis by late '94/early '95... I don't feel (and have never felt) that it should count, since Sega had pretty much moved on to the Saturn by 1994. A proper analogy would be two men in a race. If one man is ahead and then voluntarily decides to quit the race so he can go take place in another, did he lose, or did he win? Technically he lost, but I don't see it that way.

SNES came out a year later. Plus, Sega had already started making strategic blunders even when they were at their peak which contributed to the SNES winning in the U.S. That Sega bet big on the 32X and Saturn and lost big doesn’t take from Nintendo’s ultimate triumph. 

If you look at the top selling games of the generation, it’s overwhelmingly dominated by the SNES.