12.12.2006, 11:22:28
Course, what really brought SEGA downhill was the so-called "incredible new Sony Playstation" versus its largely unsupported Saturn. After than, SEGA's last hope was the Dreamcast, which was ahead of its time. It had online, it had VMU's (the memory units with screens on them so you could play minigames when not playing the Dreamcast) and it had pretty reasonable advertising.
Unfortunately, it was bad timed. People were going nuts for the last few gems on the PS1, and they were holding their breath for the PS2. When the PS2 finally released, the Dreamcast decended into the obsolete, the niche... it has still kept it's hardcore fans to this day (I have one right in front of me now!) but ultimately.. the N64 and Gamecube had almost no effect on the DC.
Nintendo didn't own SEGA. Sony interefered with the great battle between Nintendo and SEGA, and it lead to SEGA being owned by someone who was fighting in a war it didn't belong to... Sony.
The only resolution? Vengeance. Nintendo needs to own Sony. That will set things right and redeem SEGA...
(by the way, Nintendo didn't make Sonic games for GBA. SEGA made them. Nintendo just published those games).
Unfortunately, it was bad timed. People were going nuts for the last few gems on the PS1, and they were holding their breath for the PS2. When the PS2 finally released, the Dreamcast decended into the obsolete, the niche... it has still kept it's hardcore fans to this day (I have one right in front of me now!) but ultimately.. the N64 and Gamecube had almost no effect on the DC.
Nintendo didn't own SEGA. Sony interefered with the great battle between Nintendo and SEGA, and it lead to SEGA being owned by someone who was fighting in a war it didn't belong to... Sony.
The only resolution? Vengeance. Nintendo needs to own Sony. That will set things right and redeem SEGA...
(by the way, Nintendo didn't make Sonic games for GBA. SEGA made them. Nintendo just published those games).