@charizard1605 said:
@MrYaotubo said:
@charizard1605 said:
@MrYaotubo said:
Two things,the mega drive had plenty of games coming out in it´s late years(from 94 to 96,even through 97 and 98),with great games like Phantasy Star 4,Comix Zone,Vectorman,Ristar,Sonic 3D,Road Rash 3,Earthworm Jim 2,X-Men 2 Clone Wars,among so many others coming late in it´s lifecylcle,plenty of exclusive titles,unlike the 360 and secondly,as far as sales are concerned,only in japan was the snes the best selling console,the mega drive/genesis was overall the best selling console of that gen in Europe,North America,South America and Oceania,japan was the big outlier but the difference there was so large that it made the overall difference in the snes favor.
SNES was the higher selling console in North America as well. After 1994, it came back and took the lead, and continued selling into 1997.
Secondly, the 360 still continues to get games too, most of those are just third party multiplats, and thus not that notable. Similarly, while the Genesis continued to get games even after Saturn's release, most of them weren't all that notable.
http://segatastic.blogspot.pt/2009/12/mega-drive-sales-figures-update.html
It´s for the overall american continent,not just north america like I said but it doesnt really matter,we aren´t dividing the sales numbers in europe by eastern or western either so in a logical sense,the mega drive/genesis was still the best selling console of the whole european continent,the whole american continent and Oceania.
The MD/Gen got several of notable great and exclusive titles as well as pretty much all the relevant multiplats until it´s end around 97/98,and in the exclusives department a heck of a lot more than the 360 got in it´s last two years,not even close.
America includes Brazil, and Brazil was a Sega monopoly.
In North America, Canada, Japan, and parts of Western Europe, SNES won. In other places, Genesis won.
And sure, I mean they're not exact carbon copies of each other, but the point of similarity between the 360 and Genesis still stands.
Actually, the Mega Drive / Genesis also outsold the SNES in North America and Western Europe...
SNES
- Japan - 17.17 million
- Americas (North & South) - 23.35 million
- Elsewhere (Europe, Mainland Asia, Africa) - 8.58 million
Mega Drive / Genesis
- Japan - 3.58 million
- Americas - 26 million+ (23 million in North America, 3 million+ in South America)
- Europe - 8 million+
Overall sales outside of Japan:
- SNES - 31.93 million
- Mega Drive - 37.58 million+
In other words, MrYaotubo is correct to suggest that Japan is the only reason why the SNES pulled ahead of the Mega Drive overall, since the Mega Drive did poorly in Japan (worse than the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16). In this sense, the SNES is actually more like the 360, since the 360 trounced the PS3 in its home US territory while the PS3 beat it everywhere else, but because the 360's lead over the PS3 in the US was so big, that's why the 360 had the overall edge in sales.
Nevertheless, in some of the other ways you mentioned, the 360 can be considered more comparable to the Mega Drive and the PS3 more like the SNES. We could go even further back in comparing the PS2 to the NES and the Xbox to the Master System. Like the NES, Sony dominated with the PS2, so the way Microsoft gained the initial lead with the 360 is pretty comparable to what Sega did back then. In other ways, Microsoft could also be seen kind of like a modern Sega in the sense that it always ended up second place overall, but like how Sega had (and still has) its successful arcade business to back it up, Microsoft has its successful PC operating system business to back it up.
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