Originally posted by Eklypse39
the core system did well in sales, but it wasn't as close as most people think. the genesis' sales started to go to the crapper when the SNES surfaced. sega's reaction to the whole thing ... let's release a $300 cd based add on. it bomed. sega's reaction to the later generation games like Yoshi's Island and Mario Kart ... let's release a $200 32 bit add on. it bombed.
the SNES game developers had Sega owned. Sega always had to play catchup by releasing gimicky addons, repackaged systems, and controllers with 6 buttons ... because the other guy had it.
(remember the genesis 2? it was almost the same dimensions as the SNES)
the core genesis was fine, but the damn add ons deemed it a failure that was always trying to keep up.
oh yea ...
Mortal Kombat (Snes) > Mortal Kombat (Genesis) :chuckles:
wrong, pal-o.
http://hollyinet.com/great/segagen.html
read that ^. there's plenty more where that came from, but that article seems to cover everything pretty well.
some highlights:
When the SNES was finally released in September of 1991, Sega realized that the first real threat to their grip on the 16-bit market had surfaced. Sega spent a massive amount of money on advertising, promoting its superior game line-up and showing pictures of its "still-in-development" Sega CD. Although it would be nearly two years before the CD made it to market, this stopgap tactic was ingenious. Sales of Genesis consoles and games only dropped slightly in the Christmas season of 1991.
The arrival of Sonic was a major blow to Nintendo. It proved that the Genesis wasn't as primitive as Nintendo wanted everyone to believe. New SNES software was slow to arrive in 1992, and Sega's huge third-party support helped carry them through the year, despite the fact that the promised Sega CD had yet to arrive in stores.
1993 is when the genesis began to slip (when sega CD was released). but soon after, the playstation came out, so the SNES lost as well. the add-ons also came along after the release of the sega CD. i don't know where you get your information, but it's horribly wrong.