User blog comment:Dream Era/The war continues...../@comment-371828-20140511202012/@comment-24012316-20141226075118

Sorry for late replies, notifications didn't alert me, but it's all how you view it. I only counted life time sales, for when the Genesis and SNES went head to head, and the verdict of those violent 4/5 years had Sega on top of Nintendo. However, Sega had a very weak start in retrospective, and the SNES remained popular well into the early 2000's, so the SNES outsold it overall. But that goes outside the war, so I didn't count it. It's comparable to this; Two countries fight a war, they sign a treaty, the war is officially over, but then the losing side wins a few more battles that earns it more victory counts.