>>11811369
Sonic did compete with Mario and Donkey Kong, in fact, I believe DKC was a direct response to Sonic
>make him have furrowed attitude eyes, make it more Western! Mario is too cute to compete
Is all I see looking at this. And yes I know Rare is a Western developer, but they were developing for Nintendo, and they gave them the Donkey Kong IP for a purpose

But aside from that, I mean yeah, Segas arcade games are gonna be lost on anyone but the nostalgic, and in general that had more of a focus on multiplayer stuff given their arcade roots, Nintendo had a lot of the nerd favorites