The Rise and Fall of Sega Enterprises

[marurun]

This article seriously under-values the Dreamcast hardware. "Solving the last generation's problems", eh? It certainly did that, but it was powerful enough to be forward-looking. Sony's PS2 would have been successful no matter the hardware configuration, coming after the PS1. The DVD drive was the only aspect of it that at all forward-looking, and the crazy hardware design was more of a liability than an advantage.

[Mad_Hatter]

I'm going to name my child Sega.

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[bacardipr05]

Slightly off topic but what Sega could use is a game like Candy Crush or Angry Birds. Two games that i dont understand the hype they received. Though Angry Birds hooplah seems to be dying down.

[marurun]

I understand the Candy Crush Saga thing all too well... It has taken down person after person, myself included. A hit like that could be a shot in the arm for Sega. That said, a lot of those casual games companies do really well after their "big hit" and then falter and die when they can't recreate the magic. Look at Popcap Games post-EA.

[bacardipr05]

I tend to avoid anything that i see people getting hyped up about. This way im not caught up in the storm. From Candy Crush to Walking Lamer...err Walking Dead.

[EvilRyu2099]

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It's a well known fact that Nintendo's dickheadery caused Square to jump ship to the Playstation in the mid-late 90's. Something that is typically ignored, however, is that the Saturn and the Playstation were in heavy competition until Final Fantasy 7 was announced, at which point the Playstation took off and left the Saturn in its dust.

That's not really true.. But FFVII was the kick in the groin for the Nintendo and the 64. The Saturn sold pretty badly due to damaged reputation of the brand from the 32x and the fact that it was release prior to E3.. Which made no sense whatsoever..

[EvilRyu2099]

Agreed. That it was also easily pirated and Sony's distribution models are also commonly ignored.

I'm assuming you are referring to the Dreamcast.. I don't recall the Saturn ever being able to be hacked any more than the Playstation. You needed a mod chip for both or a special RAM Cart to play imports on the Saturn..

[Violent By Design]

^Ah, gotcha.

The more I think about Sega's screw up with Saturn, the angrier I get. And then I get depressed. The Saturn could have been awesome, it could have dominated. I also could have legitimately collected for it without spending a crap ton of dollars on each game. :/

Interestingly, it was the most vulnerable member of the 32-bit gen that triumphed. Even if Saturn had been awesome, N64 would have had its fans simply for being Nintendo. PS1 wouldn't have stood a chance, though. We'd remember it the way we remember stuff like the TG16 and 3DO.

I know this is an old post, but I don't agree with that one. I think the PSX would have likely been a successful system regardless if Sega had done better or not. If anything Nintendo would have been the odd man out.

[Mad_Hatter]

You guys think if Sega stuck with the Dreamcast and hardware business, would they have kept their addon fetish and released a "Dreamcast DvD" which attached to the Dreamcast.?

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[oxymoron]

I understand the Candy Crush Saga thing all too well... It has taken down person after person, myself included. A hit like that could be a shot in the arm for Sega. That said, a lot of those casual games companies do really well after their "big hit" and then falter and die when they can't recreate the magic. Look at Popcap Games post-EA.

I guess Capcom could use one of these to kind of stabilize them.