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disolitude on 26 January 2009
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CGI-Quality said:
Onyxmeth said:
CGI-Quality said:
Onyxmeth said:

I love the irony of two hardcore Sony supporters being hardcore Sega fans. Who would you side with when Sony tries to drown a hypothetical Dreamcast 2?

Anyways I need to be on a list of Sega supporters. Me being a huge Treasure han goes hand in hand with their continued support for Sega over the years and I stand up and defend the Dreamcast at every turn.

 

Side with? Neither. I never want to see ANY company try to kill another, it's one of the main reasons I don't like Microsoft's thought process of "killing" Sony. At the end of the day I'm a gamer who likes all and plays all, so why would I want to support the "drowning/" of another company/console. Favoring Sony doesn't mean I hate the other companies, even if I don't agree with some of their ways, INCLUDING Sony.

It's just a bit odd. A lot of the hardcore Sega fans I know have quite a bit of resentment towards Sony for how the Saturn and Dreamcast scenarios went down, similiar to how I would expect you to resent Microsoft if they assist in the collapse of Sony's gaming division(hypothetically of course).

 

But the majority of Sega's problems were their OWN fault. Sony seems to have the same problem, difference is, I don't recall Sega having other things (electronics) to depend on outside of games. Not only that but I don't recall sega EVER being as profitable as Sony once was, coupled with being market leader for two generations in a row! Sony has made their bed this gen, and Microsoft capitalized on that which would've been fine if they weren't just in the biz to kill of the Playstation which was not Sony's plan to do to Sega, at least not to my knowledge, when they "jumped in".

 

Segas profits...

1993 - 230 million profit
1994 - 165 million profit
1995 - 110 million profit
1996 - 46 million profit
1997 - 360 million loss

1998 - 2001 - the books got really fuzzy at thait point for sega. Their CEO I believe ended up giving 40 million dollars out of his own pocket to keep the company alive. As well as give his entire stock to the shareholders after he passed away...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isao_Okawa

So no...sega was a tiny company compared to Sony and was never as profitable, nor could it take 1/10th of the loss that sony is taking right now.