Quote Originally Posted by Leo_A View Post
Nonsense

Nintendo just launched an entire hardware design barely a year before that time and was selling millions of them and many millions of cartridges. Their sales by year are out there on their Japanese website with these stats. A system with a nearly new revision selling a lot of hardware and games sure isn't classic in my book and most certainly is modern gaming.

And since there is no right or wrong here, I'm as right in saying it didn't.
The SNS-101 was released in october 1997 [NA] / march 1998 [JAP]. May be you have some kind of magic crystal ball... but at my very intense research i haven't found any proofed sales volume and you can still buy a genesis/megadrive (official licensed by sega, produced by at games) at toys'r'us.