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Super Nintendo Toys 'R' Us SNES commercial (US)

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System sold 49.10 million units worldwide, with 23.35 million of those units sold in the America and 17.17 million in Japan. Although it could not quite repeat the success of the NES, which sold 61.91 million units worldwide, the SNES was the best-selling console of its era. The Mega Drive/Genesis came in second with 29 million sold worldwide, and the TurboGrafx-16 was third with 10 million sold worldwide.

To compete with the popular NES/Famicom, NEC launched the TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine in 1987, and Sega followed suit with the Genesis/Mega Drive in 1988. Both systems were built on 16-bit architectures and offered improved graphics and sound over the 8-bit NES. However, the NES would continue to dominate the gaming market for several years before Sega's system finally became successful. Nintendo executives were initially reluctant to design a new system, but they reconsidered when the NES hardware began to show its age. Seeing its dominance in the market slipping, Nintendo was compelled to create a new console to compete with its 16-bit rivals.

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  • @deathbyplutonium YAWN.... I rest my case

  • @rexrabbiteer /watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14

  • @deathbyplutonium obviously you care since you obviously wasted precious seconds of your life to post such a meaningless response.

  • @rexrabbiteer /watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0

  • @deathbyplutonium starfox

  • its just fun to watch how technology evolved

  • not really 3d graphics but almost though

  • @neonrider93 Well, we got Mode 7 games and the Super FX chip.

  • This is the best system ever made still to this day because the games they had

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