NOT better than the Other

Snes was more powerful, but genesis was faster albeit genesis couldn't do what 360 could in some cases to compete with its competitor. Genesis had used animations back then@like 7 mhz instead of 4mhz. So you get games like lionking, aladin or earthworm jim which are better than the later snes's hardware revision BUT snes could do 3d rendering with more colors. Same with psone and...say saturn (see further details on the saturn vs ps1 entry blog on this debate). Saturn superceded ps1 in japan because of its superior technology to it yet noone noticed. Genesis was actually ahead of the horse (nintendo) in the market for the first time though. Genesis had sonic, and even 3dfx arcade games such as virtua racing. It excelled in 3rd parties eg sports but was horrible at 2d fighters imho if it wasnt capcom and could not do doom games without the 32x (unless you count zero torelance). It was better than snes except for its exclusives eg donkey kong, contra 3 etc compared to streets of rage, sonic and mostly sega only games.The genesis had a better number of 2d shooters and effects as well if you compare games like radius, vectorman, mercs and contra to jus one hit contra game. The slow games though and nintendo franchise was still there at the end though eg starfox, dk etc. So Snes edged out just a little to me in terms of quality, why play hardcorps or megabomberman blast when u could get the originals. Better scaling (snes) vs animation (genesis).

The library was also bigger. Genesis could also do two players and some 3d ala sonic 2 more effectively than the slow snes, albeit snes was less cool, it was still more original. Whilst both had the fx chip, snes did not stur too much attention unless you played party games over all else. Sega was just making things faster, and microsoft followed. Dreamcast vs ps2 was kind of almost the same thing too, hardware wise! Better 3d effects vs vector. If you make consoles early on in the market its actually a good thing sometimes! The six button controls were small and confortable on both systems, although snes was more durable, the right and left shoulder triggers invented at that time were told to be confusing, new and hard to reach. I personally perfered the genesis six button. Its almost always a tie in technology and function of the consoles by the competitors.Like most consoles its obvious, if you prefer arcade and shooters, fastpaste go for genesis. If you liked rpgs, its snes on this one but genesis also had that. Snes simply couldnt do arcade scrollers like punisher effectively. I noticed its animation of characters were often smaller and lacked frames eg mmx but its backgrounds and colors were multi-scrolling. If you like original franchises that made a big hit in the market go for snes. Sega was no noobie to hardware, being an arcade key player at the time.

Although nes and its library destroyed the market, genesis had better hardware just like the master system before it (actually master system had almost infinite better hardware than nes, 3d glasses to boot which today are now catching on ala ps3 although i personally stay away from the extra sensory market ala kinect on 360 wii dreamcast motion sensor ripoffs, ps3 3d etc blah, blah, been there done that nothing special here, luckily ps3 turned down that idea before its release lol, anyways:(). No conclusion on this blog spot.