When Microsoft released its second home video game console, the Xbox 360, in 2005, it did so with 18 launch games. These included numerous sports titles, some FPS games, platformers, and racing sims.

Sega was a major player in the arcade business by the 1980s, but the Sega Genesis made the company a household name. After it was released in North America in 1989, Sega immediately became a serious ...