With the console wars, SNES and Genesis seem to battle for fans and players to buy their product. Since SNES had the quality and beloved characters from the early days and Genesis counter acted with putting out many games with some quality.  Now if they both took notes from each other, it would have been an even battle.  With Mario and its addictive story lines made SNES loved but yet with the variety and some interesting characters like the well-known Sonic the Hedgehog that speed through levels by speed rolling through mazes. While these characters broke out of the games and jump into cartoons, this made them even more popular.  The marketing ideas pushed this into the homes and to the demographic audiences who wanted the systems.    

     

      When they started to have tons of sequels, it feels they lost the plot. Mario had a few spin off as well as Sonic.  The idea of one character being put in different games made me feel that they could not find a fresh idea.  But bring out games that had half of thought and were ok to play instead of putting true thought and making it great, are not the way to go either.  Sega brought out games is ok but nothing that was jaw dropping and brings you coming back for more.  Yet their library of games was well filled. SNES left to release a few a year. So I am going to ask my viewers. What would you want? 

        Let us not forget TurboGrafx.  This system was expensive compared to its competitors. It was not as well known as SNES and Genesis.  This was more PC Engine than a normal game system.  I feel since it was not marketed very well and desired to be better than SNES and Genesis.  This system was hybrid cross of the 8 bit and 16 bit. They had used cards which held more data. Even with all it powerful hardware, it could not get a foothold. This one example with marketing would have done it wonders. I feel the date and the way they released this game system was not to its best way to get it. The price was a bit high for that time.

   

      So this my opinion, it is about how you market it, making sure the software is accessible and allowing to hook up to other systems would be the best system. All the systems have their great games and we have learned to make things multimedia. So let us look to the future.