And SEGA tried chasing Nintendo with Crusader of Centy as their answer to Zelda LTTP. Vectorman to DKC. Virtua Racing to challenge StarFox FX chip. VR was good and Centy is great but Vectorman sucked lol.  Genesis vs SNES always reminds me of WCW Nitro vs WWF RAW. WCW sprinted ahead but did themselves in soon after. They imploded on their own success. The other ran a marathon. It was short and one ended in a car crash but it was a fun wild ride.

But they quit the 16-bit war while they were ahead, curl. lol. So how does it make sense to credit Nintendo? I mean, Sega was kicking Nintendo's ass in the US up until SOJ foolishly decided to divert resources toward the upcoming Saturn. SOA knew this, and they tried to convince SOJ, but SOJ told them to get stuffed and it was only then that the SNES overtook them.

Also, I'm not really talking about total unit sales. I'm talking head-to-head, launch-aligned sales. The Genesis ended up beating the SNES annually... until 1994... which just so happens to be the year Saturn launched and the parent company was like, "See ya". 

The 16-bit era, no doubt. The 90s were a time when the console makers themselves were sniping at each other in their ads. Sega was especially aggressive about this, but Nintendo and even Sony got in on it. After the 90s, the console makers kinda dropped all of that and PR-wise have basically been at the "friendly business rivalry" stage of their relationship for a long time. The 16-bit era was also the closest horse race between two consoles ever, at least in the U.S.

"Console wars" stuff these days is just angry gamers with axes to grind arguing over whose plastic electronic toy made by a soulless multinational corporation is the best, and acting like anything less than glowing praise towards their platform of choice is a personal affront towards them. You know. Normal adult behavior. Totally not childish at all.

4th console generation.
* Super Nintendo.
* Sega Mega Drive.
* TurboGrafx-16.
* Phillips CD-i.
* Neo-Geo.
* Gameboy.
* Atari Lynx.
* Game Gear.
* Turboexpress.

Lots of innovation happening here... CD Rom was starting to get pushed, add-ons that boosted performance. I.E. SuperFX, Sega 32X showed us whats possible.

Quitting while you're ahead isn't winning; that gives Sega a massive unfair advantage since they got a two year head start. SNES getting an extra two years in 1994-1996 gives them an even 6 years each. Sega doesn't get to unilaterally decide when the generation starts and ends, they took their foot off the gas too soon and got beaten.

You're saying that but you'll probably be the first person to declare the new generation has started as soon as the Switch 2 is released. 

Wii vs PS3 vs 360 with Wii taking the top spot. And I don't want to hear about them not being in the same market. It's a videogame console. Different strategy, sure, but still vying for the same pool of videogame cash.

Yeah. I didn't include it in the poll with those two because of debate but I see it that way. I just think PS3 vs Xbox 360 narrows it down more and was really close.

I think there's a good chance if PS3 launched the same time it did IRL with less tech jammed inside of it (and no cell processor) for an SKU of $400-$450 it could've decisively beat Xbox 360 and 360 could've never made it past 60 million even with the success of Halo and Xbox Live. If the consoles were similar prices, the third-party games performed as smoothly as 360 and RROD would still be a negative factor I don't see Xbox adapting fast enough. Sony's arrogance cost them dearly. 

I wasn't aware of this one until a while ago, but the Sega Mega Drive vs SNES time was cool. "SEGA does what Nintendon't!"

Cortected that for you.😊