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.