Marcel Winatschek

Sega on Nintendo

Nintendo was going to offer Mega Drive games on the Revolution. Sonic, Shining Force—the whole archive. Right there on Nintendo hardware.

Years earlier this would have been unthinkable. You had to choose between Nintendo and Sega. The rivalry was real. You picked one and lived with it. Now they were just putting the games on the same machine.

It wasn’t a betrayal or anything. Just pragmatism. Once you stop caring which box contains the software, the choice doesn’t mean much anymore. That’s the thing I remember thinking about—how small the difference had become.