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Sega never really competed well vs nintendo, although there where plenty of very good sega games, and I of course owned all of both companies systems.

Nintendo specifically dominated though in platforming games and RPG games compared to sega.

But then sony came along and even the ps1 had a zillion more platform and rpgs games then nintendo (and just so many good games over all it was insane).

The playstation one was like a tier above nintendo right from the start, and it won a ton of people over. Since many people only bought one system, that already hurt nintendo big time.

But then came the ps2....and yeah, as good as the psone was....and as many good games as there was for that system, the playstation 2 blew it away.

The N64 at least could compete in some world with the original playstation, if only because it had so many people that where still loyal to nintendo, but there was hardly any decent RPGs for the N64, and while Super mario 64 was quite good, there was not a ton of good platformers either.

But the playstation 2 went up against the gamecube (released a year later or so), and I believe that was the real death knoll of Nintendo. It made a minor comeback with the Wii because it was geared more towards using the wii remote (playstation had a similar remote but was hardly used). The Wii had a bunch of family games and at least it had some decent RPGs and platforms.

But by then the ps2 had already destroyed the gamecube, almost obliterating it into the ground as far as choice of games, number of games, quality of games etc. It was largely a new family oriented audience that went with the Wii (or players who buy all systems like me).

I got the Wii U eventually, but not for years after it was released, and I still regret it. I only played a few games on the system, and honestly should have saved the money and just gotten a switch (wouldn't have missed much at all).

Meanwhile the ps3 is another great system with tons of good games, possibly rivaling the ps2 in many ways. I still have tons of games that would be fun to play on both systems that I own but never got around to playing.

The ps4 has not been as great in my opinion, with many of the good games out for it available on the PC, but I still have enough to make the system worth owning. Things are changing though with pc ports being so common, making it less important to have a primary gaming system anymore.

The switch is really going to have to pull out some serious game (heh) to compete at this point, and a mario game or 2 (kart and platformer) is not going to be enough.

The need to have more then one gaming system is quickly evaporating as more and more is available on pc or cross platform. Nintendo sadly is not going to work as most peoples only gaming system, and I think with costs going up etc, more and more people will stick to just one system soon (besides computers of course).
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