disolitude on 06 January 2009
| Squilliam said: 1. Probably the most interesting, Microsoft would have done far better in Others and Japan where the Sega name is well known. They would have probably done significantly better given the level of investment and would have likely sold at least another 10M consoles because they wouldn't have had to work as hard at the start. Lastly it would have let Sega have their self respect and they were my favourite console company of all time. In a way I trace the lineage of the Xbox and Xbox 360 back to Sega. |
I read from miltiple sources that MS basically tested the Windows OS on the dreamcast and the whole Direct X for a console. Hence why Dreamcast was so easy to develop for. Once it was a succes (or a glorious failure as people call it) MS approached sega and wanted to purchase a big chunk of the company and have them develop for the xbox.
Sega wanted bigger profits from the xbox and backwards compatibility with the dreamcast and they couldn't come to an agreement.
In any case, it would have given MS lots of cred and Sega the finances to keep doing the amazing stuff they were doing.
Too bad it didn't happen.
