While Nintendo were the dominate force of the early 90's, Sega unleashed there own beast in the form of a Spikey haired Blue Hedgehog (You know who i mean) which turned things around for SEGA (Sonic became so popular that in 1992, Sonic was found to be more recognizeable than Mickey Mouse in the six to eleven year old demographic). Sadly come the turn or the new millenum SEGA would pull out of the console buisness due to bad buisness decisions and the failure of the "ahead of its time" SEGA Dreamcast (But thats another story).
Mid 90's saw the emergence of a new system brought in to combat the Juggernuaght of Nintendo in the form of the SONY Playstation. Originally Nintendo and Sony were working on a disc based upgrade for the Super Nes but plans fell through so Sony siezed the opertunity and decided to go at it on there own and thus Playstation was born.
Come the 00's and with SEGA out of the picture Microsoft decided to join the fray releasing the Xbox wich went on to sell a modest 24 million outselling Nintendos Gamecube by over 2 million units (not bad for the new kid on the block), allthough both were no match for Sony's 2nd PS Console selling well over 110 Million units.
The Late 00's was a whole new story the once mighty Sony found themselves playing catch up to the Xbox and Wii. Xbox 360 had effectivly taken America by storm and Nintendos Wii was an absolute success selling 100 million consoles. It would take up untill late 2012 for Sony to take second spot in sales finishing just over 1 million more sold than the Xbox 360.
Now a new generation with new console has begun and im just as excited for it as i was last gen. So far Sony is making great progress and same with Xbox but for Nintendo the future is not looking so great, Even though they started this Gen a whole year before Sony & Xbox there sales are dismal and are soon to be eclipsed by Sony and Microsoft. I find this rather saddening because Nintendo have been around for so long and ive always had fond memories of there consoles, so enev though i am Pro Sony i do hope Nintendo can pick up there game. (haha no pun intended)
