In contrast to other markets, Sega was marketing here, but not a direct confrontation with Nintendo's aging system. The Sega MegaDrive, like the Sega Master system, had no problems to establish itself in Europe. The European NES market was very confused, several companies distributed the NES on different markets.
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The Mega Drive suffered a worse fate on the Japanese market than the PC Engine, despite its technical superiority against PC Engine and Famicom. The Super Famicom held about 80 percent of the market there. When the Mega Drive began to take over the market, the Super Famicom came out and surpassed the Mega Drive in Japan. The Japanese players were more focused on the Famicom. The Mega Drive initially competed with the 8-bit Famicom system in Japan and its equivalent Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America. The Europe publication was on 30 November 1990 in Great Britain, at the price of 190 pounds. The Sega Megadrive was released in Japan on 29 October 1988 at the price of 21,000 yen (at that time about 295 DM or about 150 € ). However, it caused only a little spurts in the Japanese market, hardly more than the MegaDrive. When NEC published the PC Engine on 30 October 1987 in Japan, it seemed as a threat to Sega and Nintendo.
For trademark purposes, the device was named Genesis (ancient Greek for "creation") in the North American market, which accounted for about half of the total sales. This name was used for the Japanese, European, Asian, and Australian versions of the console. Mega radiated superiority, and Drive made the consumer think of speed and power. The first name that Sega considered for the new console was MK-1601, but in the end they chose the name Mega Drive. All games made for these systems could work on the new console. The current design convinced, and so used to three new arcade boards: The Megatech that Mega Play, and System C.
Segas System-16 video players had made the company very popular, so Hayao Nakayama, Sega's then CEO, decided to produce the new console as a 16-bit device. Sega knew that the Sega Master system would not manage to capture this position in North America and Japan, so it was decided to launch a new console.
In addition, Sega's competitor Nintendo held 95 percent of the North American video game market and 92 percent of the Japanese market, only in Europe, Nintendo's 8-bit and 16-bit devices were not so successful. Formation and career At the end of the 1980s, 16-bit computers such as the Amiga and Atari ST, as well as 16-bit Arcade devices, ranked the 8-bit video game consoles. メガドライブ, Mega Doraibu in North America : Sega Genesis ) is a 16-bit video game console from the Japanese manufacturer Sega.
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