Just thinking, will there be a Nintendo monopoly again like it did in NES?

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disolitude said:

I strongly believe SNES wasn't as powerful as it should have been for launching 2 years after the genesis but that really didn't contribute much to their loss of monopoly with 3rd party support.

Also, don't forget that while they did lose some 3rd party support, snes still got more 3rd party support than genny after it was launched. (especially japan)

For every fighting game that capcom made for snes and not for genesis (final fight, knights of the round, Street fighter 2) Sega had to make one of their own to compete (golden axe, streets of rage, eternal champions).

Every RPG nintendo got from square had a Sega made rpg to compete with...etc.

So I personally think it was pure marketting that led Sega to the top spot on US until 1995... Hell I bought a genesis and I never wanted to touch the snes until I saw Donkey Kong and said "screw it that looks too cool to pass up".

 

PS. Before giant electronic and software corporations started entering the market and losing millions of dollars on their systems...bundling the kitchen sink with the unit....the industry was all about games and gameplay. Thats why I also think 16 bit was the golden age of gaming.

Snes wasn't technically strong as should be for one motive ? Yamauchi wanted all fancy effects like Mode7, great soud chip but want to be a profitable platform fron the get go. So Uemura scapped the backward compatibility and inserted a weak CPU. The architetture was base on supporting PPUs.

Yeah Nintendo had the japanese spport because Sega failed hard there but don't forget that western publisher like EA was behind Sega ( EA missed the Nes train ... ).

We all see now with Xbox 360 how precious is a 1 year headstart. Nintendo gave 2 years ...

Yeah SoA marketing was great and the intuition that teens was an underserved ( by Nintendo ) market ( the Nes children ) was a stroke of genius, copied by Sony a couple of years later ... 

PS: 16 bit was great also because 2D graphic was maxed out so only gameplay could differentiate your product from the others.