Question

What factors do you think enabled Sega to break Nintendo's near monopoly of the U.S. video game console market in the late 1980s?

Answer 1

Some of the factors allowed Sega to break Nintendo’s monopoly of the US video game console market in the late 1980s are , such as – because of the enhanced feature and huge 16-bit system, everyone wanted to use it and the compatibility with the existing 8-bit system so that the consumer who owns the older system games can also play on the newer system.

- Mostly, Sega focused on unit sales rather on profits. Thus, focus on in-house games with lesser focus on consoles helped Sega to grow.

- If we see Nintendo’s 8-bit system has more quality games and titles with low priced console for the same but there were problems with the 8-bit system due to the restrictive policies by Nintendo. Whereas Sega’s 16-bit system was made on ‘backward compatibility’ feature and this gave Sega a complete boom to remain competitive and break the monopoly.

?- Other factor which helped Sega is to be innovative with technological advancement and provide solution to consumers worth of their money