Even with the Mega Drive variants, those numbers don’t top Nintendos….and if we then include Nintendo variants we have to add another 5.7 m consoles which puts the Mega drive into a distant second place in a two horse race….why you are trying to discount sales in Japan is beyond me.
360 sales were not a huge gap behind ps3 if at all, given that Xbox stopped releasing sales numbers at 85.4 m while ps3 sold 87.5m.
Regardless, the question was whether Sega or Xbox was a better competitor to Sony. Sega failed at the first hurdle with Dreamcast, while Xbox is still in the race.
You are wrong again the Sega Saturn was in direct competition to the PS1, then the Dreamcast came out it was competing against the PS2. So, Sega fought for 2 gens with Sony, but its poor decisions before the Playstation was a thing left them in a not so good financial position.
So please do some research on Sega before you post as you've made it very clear you know very little about them.
The only reason Xbox is on the market (let's not say race when Phil has already declared Xbox lost) is because MS is a trillion-dollar company.
Yes, you’re right. Saturn was Segas hope against PlayStation. But it didn’t fail because of a lack of finances. It failed because it was more expensive, harder to develop for than a PS, was way worse at 3d games, suffered from a bizarre conceptual advertising campaign and just didn’t get the same support from 3rd party devs.
Sega didn’t win against Nintendo in any race and utterly failed to compete against Sony. Xbox at least went neck and neck with Sony with the 360 and has the staying power to compete.
Yes, it was more expensive because Sega had big financial failures with the Mega CD & 32X and not doubt Sega thought that Sony wasn't a threat and tried to recoup some of those finances with the higher priced Saturn which bit them in the arse.
When we look at the OG Xbox it sold poorly compared to others and the 360 was so advanced ahead of the PS2 the graphics were night and day difference and released a year earlier than the PS3 which got it a lot of sales. When released at the same time as a Sony console the Xbox hasn't fared so well.
XB1 was around 60 million consoles behind last gen and its looking even worse this gen, MS money is keeping it on the market.
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