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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Sega hardware owners, which platform has become your new home, and why?

 

My new home is...

Nintendo 10 27.78%
 
Xbox 4 11.11%
 
Playstation 16 44.44%
 
PC 6 16.67%
 
Total:36

I sold my Mega Drive and all the games on it to buy a PS1. For a little over a decade afterwards Playstation was the platform I then primarily used.
The PS3 however had an internet browser, which enabled me to have internet access for the first time. From there I became more interested in computers.
During 2009 I purchased my first laptop. Gradually, my home platform shifted to PC.



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Yeah the cool thing about Megadrive and SNES was that unlike say PS vs Xbox these days where the two are extremely similar, back then the two offered very different libraries and experiences.

SNES did have better graphics, with more colours and special effects, as well as better audio, but the Megadrive's faster CPU did give it an edge in some fast paced action games so even there while I'd crown SNES the winner, Megadrive had its own merits.

To this day, the faceoff between the two is still perhaps the most iconic "console war" ever.



I started on home computers in the NES generation, then played near-exclusively on the MegaDrive, then mained Playstation consoles (skipped Saturn but got Dreamcast and a PC before the PS2). I played about as much on X360 as I did on PS3, and I've jumped to PC exclusively from 2020~ til 2023. In 2023, I'm playing more on Switch (TotK, and Mario Party with my adorable nieces) and my brother's PS5.

I guess the short answer is Playstation.



BraLoD said:
DonFerrari said:

My Mega-Drive was the NTSC version that I "hacked" by clipping to accept japanese carts (that small plastic part that prevented you from using those), and of course had all those issues of NTSC/PAL selector.

I call it Genesis because a lot of Murican have no idea that it is called Mega-Drive =p

I do remember the silly discussions on which was better based on Mega or Super being of higher magnitude.

Yeah, people in USA will obviously recognize it as Genesis instead of Mega Drive, but that's only there, and let's be real, Mega Drive is a way better name xD

Of course Mega Drive is a much better name, but considering gaming really start on it for me, that makes Genesis a proper name kkk. 



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Genesis > Mega Drive



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

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It's Megadrive where I'm from, and I personally like that name better anyways, so I'll always use that one.
Has a cool 80s vibe to it and emphasizes its power.



curl-6 said:

It's Megadrive where I'm from, and I personally like that name better anyways, so I'll always use that one.
Has a cool 80s vibe to it and emphasizes its power.

And from what I know the only reason Genesis name even exists and only in USA is because there was copyright issues or the like over there during MD launch.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Leynos said:

Genesis > Mega Drive

That can only come from someone from USA.

But no, not even close.



BraLoD said:
Leynos said:

Genesis > Mega Drive

That can only come from someone from USA.

But no, not even close.

Mega Drive means nothing. Two words slapped together.  Genesis sounds cooler and means birth. It was the birth of a new era of gaming. Birth of the era of Sonic. Birth of the greatest console war in history.

I'd never capilize usa. Fuck this country. It's a pile of shit.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

I feel like Megadrive has meaning.
It brings to mind "Hyperdrive" and can be broken down to Mega (great) plus Drive (power, impetus, an engine for or a push to achieve something)