i agree with you 100% about 3rd party support and their importance on Revolution's success, but i wanted to comment on your question "was there anything that was on both SNES and Genesis?" i worked at an EB during their shared "hay day" and i can swear to the fact that there were many many hit titles that were on both Snes and Genesis. Here are but a few top rated games i can think of off the top of my head:
Super Street Fighter II Mortal Combat I-III Fatal Fury Prince of Persia Nearly all EA sports games Tecmo Super Bowl Lost Vikings Ghosts and Goblins Samurai Showdown Aladin NBA Jam Earthworm Jim Pimal Rage Rock n' Roll Racing
this list doesn't include many of the other great games and inevitable slew of trash titles (i.e. home alone, ren and stimpy and terminator vs. robocop) that sucked hard, but it does show that cross marketability does appeal to third parties who need as much exposure to gamers as possible. but on the other hand, to be able to offer an exclusive game on a proprietary control scheme that could then break out into a hit may reel in third party developers that may never see the light of day otherwise. we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.
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i agree with you 100% about 3rd party support and their importance on Revolution's success, but i wanted to comment on your question "was there anything that was on both SNES and Genesis?" i worked at an EB during their shared "hay day" and i can swear to the fact that there were many many hit titles that were on both Snes and Genesis. Here are but a few top rated games i can think of off the top of my head:
Super Street Fighter II
Mortal Combat I-III
Fatal Fury
Prince of Persia
Nearly all EA sports games
Tecmo Super Bowl
Lost Vikings
Ghosts and Goblins
Samurai Showdown
Aladin
NBA Jam
Earthworm Jim
Pimal Rage
Rock n' Roll Racing
this list doesn't include many of the other great games and inevitable slew of trash titles (i.e. home alone, ren and stimpy and terminator vs. robocop) that sucked hard, but it does show that cross marketability does appeal to third parties who need as much exposure to gamers as possible. but on the other hand, to be able to offer an exclusive game on a proprietary control scheme that could then break out into a hit may reel in third party developers that may never see the light of day otherwise. we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.