6. There Was A Huge Focus On Sports Games To Appeal To The American Market
Fairly soon after it became apparent than the company were destined to fail in Japan once again, failing to the vastly-preferred Nintendo corporation, someone under the Sega umbrella had the bright idea to focus on North America and Europe, looking to get a head start in those markets. One way of doing this was to differentiate the Mega Drive/Genesis from the SNES, a console fairly famous for a whole host of excellent RPG titles and shooters. Tact was changed, and the Mega Drive suddenly featured a heavy influx of sports games. The thinking behind this was that Western cultures would be far more interested in officially-branded sports titles, and that proved to be correct. Relatively quickly, series such as the NHL and Madden groups of games become wildly popular, cementing the Mega Drive as the go-to console if gamers wanted virtual sports.
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