So I read Sega and Nintendo were rivals for 80-90 years, and Sega actually always lost and had to leave the console business in the late 90s.
Why did Sega always lose, the biggest question was what was better Sega genisis or Super Nintendo
Sega genisis had a blast procesor
In Germany it was not called Genesis but Sega Mega Drive - ironically, although it had no drive at all, but worked like the SNES with modules.
The processor from the Megadrive was a bit faster at 7.6 Mhz than the 3.58 Mhz processor from the SNES. However, the SNES had a few other tricks up its sleeve like "Mode 7", with which smooth 2.5D games like Pilotwings or Mario Kart were possible. Or the sound chip from Sony, which worked completely independently of the system and enabled 8 voices with sampled sounds (like real piano tones), which was really unique at the time. Only synthetic sounds came from other consoles and the Megadrive. Graphics were also much more colorful with the SNES and could display 256 colors from a palette of 32,768 while Megadrive only managed 64 from a palette of 512.
What actually gave the Megadrive the fatal blow were all the unique games on the Super Nintendo like the hit Super Mario World right at the market launch. The extremely good Mario Kart or titles like Final Fantasy 4, 5 and 6. And also a lot of arcade classics like Parodius or Street Fighter, which were an almost 1: 1 implementation of the machine on the SNES.
Better and worse goes by the point. They just had different games that appealed to different people. If you wanted Nintendo games or JRPGs (outside of Europe, a lot of them didn't come to us) the SNEW was perfect. If you were more interested in action, probably the Genesis / Megadrive.
Both were good in their own way.
Sonic, Michael Jackson, Earl's advenzure were good games
Yes, but Nintendo's games were just a lot more popular
