I'm updating my master list of releases from Japan, just thought I'd see which year you guys would rank higher in terms of releases: 1983: Bandai Arcadia Sega SG-1000 Nintendo Famicom Epoch Cassette Vision Jr. Bandai Vectrex Othello Multivision Gakken TV Boy Casio PV-1000 Bandai RX-78 Gundam SC-3000 1994: Sega Mega Jet PC Engine DUO-RX Sega Saturn Sony Playstation PC-FX 3DO Neo Geo CD Bandai Playdia Aiwa/Sega CSD-GM1 Use any criteria you want...
The daddy. Nuff said. Edit..excuse my ignorance but which of the 83 systems are revamps. By that I mean 94 also lost points in my eyes as the megajet, aiwa and rx weren't new consoles in the sense of new games we couldn't play on other iterations. The neo cd too to a large degree.
I choose 1994. Our beloved Saturn was born unto the consumer world. AND the Neo Geo Cd made it just a little more affordable to play some great games that were otherwise out of financial reach.
I have to go with 1994 because not only is Saturn one of my all time favs, but the PSX probably had the biggest impact on gaming of any of the systems in either list.
Was Jaguar 1993 then? Whatever, I mentioned recently on another forum about how that era was the worst time for console releases with so many going down the tube.