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[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The SNES wasn't even the greatest console available at the time of its release.

[โ€“] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Depends on how you define greatest.

There were more powerful consoles, but there weren't a lot of TurboGrafx (is that the right era?) customers, and there weren't a lot of games coming out for it. The SNES had a constant stream of the best (and many of the worst) games in every genre