That article looks interesting, I'll have to read it whgen i have a little more time. It's worth noting however, that December 1995 is not the end of the 16-bit era exactly. Maybe for the Genesis it was (or close enough to it), but the SNES was Nintendo's primary console for another 9 months and continued selling well and getting landmark games even into 1997. This makes sense since the SNES came out two years after the Genesis in the first place. "Generations" are not really as clear as they're sometimes made out to be (not with video game consoles any more than with life forms). The numbers I've always seen say that each system sold approximately 16million units (which is different than the "households" figure which this study uses), with the SNES having the ultimate slim margin, mostly gained in the last two years of its life. ...word is bondage...
Didn't the Snes win in America? ... waait. I read a lot of this, back in the day, in Nintendo-biased publications... I grew up believing the SNes won the war. Now I realise it was the Genesis. Really, though, I still like the SNes better. It was seriously superior to the Genesis, in my opinion. Not that I don't love the Genesis as well. I'm just biased.
it was so until snes come out. the "sega megadrive" couldn't stand the competition of all those brilliant colors and ninty was good at not making people pass to 16 bit early on by showing something called super mario bros 3... i know lots of people that were about to buy a MD but waited a little more due to SMB3 and the snes release coming closer.... ehrm can't tell if it is so for all europe by the way
Then I guess the Snes really still won. Would it still have won with the SNesCD? The world will never know.
metal slader glory directors cut, some kind of remake of a famicom disk system game. it was released for the nintendo power flashcart system, japan only. damn, i was so sure it came out in 2001! actual release date was at the end of 2000, though. heres nintendos official page for the game: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/shvc/bmsj/mg.html
Nintendo SNES won in pure sales figures in the U.S. and worldwide, but Sega had scored a huge upset by almost cutting Nintendo's marketshare in half, from over 90% in the 8-bit NES-SMS era, down to something like a little over 50% in the 16-bit SNES- Genesis era. Nintendo would never regain it's lost console marketshare after this, after the arrival of Sony in 1994-1995.
Unfortunately neither would Sega and the game lost two of it's biggest and best players in this console war. Overall the Snes/Super Famicom won by a bigger margin than 50 % worldwide, as Europe was not a major market back then compared to the US and Japan.The Mega Drive was practically non existent in Japan and lost it's way after a couple of year's in the US.It also ended up playing second fiddle in Europe after they changed their marketing campaign's, and the Snes eventually took over due to a few exclusives, at least that is they way it felt at the time.
The SNMES was never a massive hit in the UK. Yes, it was big but over all the Meag Drive was always the European choice. Working in HMV at the time only went to prove to me that this was true. Mega Drive gameswould sell easily while SNES games were quite slow at selling. true that the big names like Mortal Shitebat, Star Fox, killer Instinct and so on sold really well but other titles just sat on the shelf. Over all the Meag Drive really was a better seller the UK at least. Personally I though the PAL Snes suffered the same fate as the N64 in PAL. Crap distribution !! Yakumo
I think the Snes won because SEGA dropped the Mega Drive in late '94 to start to promote the Saturn. What games did SEGA produce to the Mega Drive after 1994? They are all pushing the Saturn while Nintendo kept the Snes until 1997/98... PD
pretty much what happened, when donkey kong country came out the graphics were considered so amazing that people thought the 32x looked like a joke compared to it. Funny thing was though sega of america wanted to continue the 16bit buisness, but ended up being forced to close due to sega of japan wanting to rush into the 32bit market, since the mega drive was dong rather poorly in japan, still im shocked how the system lasted as long as it did it japan.
werent there other 8mbit famicom carts? i remember final fantasy 3 having an 8mbit prg rom + chr ram cause i made a cart of neills english translation once. afair, there was another game, maybe one of the dragon quests? im really not that educated when it comes to nes/fc
