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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
18 Apr 2023 Acquired Short: The Death of Sega
“Sega and its Genesis, as it was known in North America, has battled Nintendo and the Super NES to basically a tie in the US home console market, which really in practice, if you go listen to our Nintendo series, was beating the pants off of Nintendo.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- evaluation
- Recorded
- 18 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Short: The Death of Sega
Transcript context
…Spoilers. We start our story in around 1992-1993. Sega and its Genesis, as it was known in North America, has battled Nintendo and the Super NES to basically a tie in the US home console market, which really in practice, if you go listen to our Nintendo series, was beating the pants off of Nintendo. Sega had no right to get to 50%, maybe even 50%-plus market share, given how far behind they came from. Imagine you're a startup and you're fighting some big incumbent, and within three years, you get to a basically 50/50 market share.…
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