nope, its impossible, this is THE console wars, with the power of internet 2.0, millions of gamers are taking sides, and there is war, fans vs fans, industry analysis sites, Companies vs companies, news that make some fanboys cry (FFXIII), even i have been interested in this since the beginning.

There is no possible comparation between this war in the information age, with the ancient SNES-GENESIS.

@Resident_Hazard

I agree....let´s cry together.

This is not THE console wars.  This is the console landslide.  Nintendo is trouncing everyone now.  It wasn't anything like that back then.  Sega was a fierce competitor and threat to Nintendo.  Now people bitch and moan about Nintendo not being their competitor and being in a different market.       

Hint : check hardware shipment under World menu on this site.

However that was a phyrric win. Sega was financially unstable and misread the market, starting its own painful decline.

Nintendo on the other hand went completely out of touch with the market and was outspended by Sony deep pocket.

I loved the SNES-GENESIS-War... Kids drawing pictures of Sonic killing Mario and vice versa.. the Mortal Kombat controversy.. the Street Fighter 2 controversy.. Good times

I would say it was the closest those were the good old days two sides now its confusing with three sides

I'm serious, man.  Once the giant corporations gained ground in gaming, it's like the point of gaming got lost in the shuffle to make the most money.  Before, it was about which companies liked working together, and who liked which hardware and that kind of thing.

After Sony and then MS entered the fray, it was about who could throw around the most money and buy up the most studios, not who could make the best exclusives and come up with the most creative games.

I always felt that the industry was better off when it was video game companies making hardware and competing.  Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Neo-Geo, NEC/Hudson all made names for themselves as video game companies with occasional forays in computers or other forms of entertainment (like TV, card games, etc).  Not that I don't recognize that Sega and Atari took a lot of steps to hurt themselves, but still, I can't help but think that major corporations have now priced the industry out of the range of actual video game companies except for Nintendo who, for too long, had been reliant on their core fanbase to keep them afloat.

SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDONT.

We want the dichotomies back! Sonic = Evil vs. Mario = Good! It was a good heir to the ending cold war!

Not were i was at that time.
But at my school many people were so called multiconsolists{including myself}which takes automatically the steam out of a possible 'fight'.
But i have heard stories that the rest of my country was involved in the clone...ehm consolewars. ;)