Favorite Console War?

[JackHandy]

SanAndreasX said:

JackHandy said:

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.

My point is that when Sega was going directly at Nintendo, they pulled ahead and took a sizeable lead in the US. It was only after Sega of Japan decided to transition to the Saturn and devote all their resources toward it that the SNES pulled ahead. Remember, the Saturn launched in 1994. Sega had left the 16-bit war. So while yes, Nintendo ultimately pulled ahead, it was essentially in garbage-time, so I don't recognize it as much of an accomplishment.