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SEGA's main goal in creating the Genesis was to 'make a console that could beat Nintendo'

by rawmeatcowboy
06 November 2018
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SEGA had made consoles prior to the SEGA Genesis, but the company set out with a very specific goal when creating their 16-bit platform. According to SEGA former president Hideki Sato, beating Nintendo was top priority.

In short, we just wanted to make a game console that could beat Nintendo. We released our very first video game console, the SG-1000, and it sold 160,000 units. Those were huge numbers, considering Sega has only made arcade games that sold no more than several thousand units up until then. However, it stood no chance against the Family Computer, which released on the same day…

There's no doubt that the Genesis gave the SNES a run for its money, and definitely made for a very heated war between gaming fans. I'm happy those days are over, and SEGA/Nintendo fans seem to have a deep appreciation of one another now.

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