That isn't 2 billion sales..which i never said.
You don't even know what you type do you ? I just quoted what you said . Sorry even now , half the world doesn't own consoles, never mind back in the mid 1990's
NPD also declared that between 1991 and 1994, Sega sold more software and hardware than Nintendo in the USA
Total in 'worldwide' sales and Nintendo was way out in front . SEGA never had more 'Worldwide' marketshare than Nintendo in the 16 bit era, the 8 bit, or for any era SEGA was making console Hardware .
As for ECCO. If anyone believes ECCO was a moderate hit..a Game Sega not only made a sequel out of but bloody created enhanced SEGA CD versions out of for both titles
Sigh... It was the 16 bit era , when games never needed to sell millions of copies - thanks to small teams and small development times . I can make a huge list of 16 bit games that got sequels , but never sold in massive numbers. You're going to say Chuck Rock was a massive seller, Wonderboy, Castlevania IV , Aero The Bat, Phantasy Star II, Busby , World Championship Soccer , Earnest Evans were massive sellers - Games which in most cases, either had a direct sequel or various spin off's (like with Earnest Evans).
If a game sold over 150,000 or 200,000 copies that was more than enough
From SOA only the big sellers got the CD treatement...ECCO, SPIDER MAN, JOE MONTANA and ETERNAL CHAMPIONS. And the latter two were n't straight ports unlike the others.
Hardly. Adv Of Batman was not a massive seller on the MD, After Burner II was not a massive seller onthe MD . Joe Montana was a great seller I'll give you that , shame it flopped on the Mega CD (mainly to playing far worse than the Cart based versions)
Nintendo won if you can call it winning because of Japan..Sega had the rest of the market including Americ
Nintendo had more most of Europe and Japan to call it own with the Snes . For sure the Mega Drive beat the Snes in the UK and for a large part of the 16 bit battle in the USA . Like with MS and 360 really