Sony losses expected at $1.5 billion

[Pristine20]

disolitude said:

Pristine20 said:

arsenicazure said:

Pristine20 said:

disolitude said:
Somewhere out there a blue hedgehog is laughing his ass off.

 

not another sega lamentation...I guess it's impossible to see that sega killed sega just like sony is close to doing to itself. Neither of these companies fell because of competition. I give up on you guys though....can't keep saying the same thing over and over again.

 

I agree with you as far as Saturn and 32x are concerned. But not the dreamcast. That was a beautiful piece of hardware and everything sega did was perfect. Its just a pity that everyone waited for the ps2 instead.

And because they waited for the ps2 sony killed sega? Perhaps sega died because of their previous track record? Ever consider that? read my posts to disolitude. i can't keep reiterating.

 

Know your Dreamcast history before you make claims of what killed the system...

 

 

I saw the videos and one of the first things I noticed was that all the people commenting were Sega employees/former sega employees who are apt to be biased. Even then, no one ever seemed to blame sony for sega's console downfall.

Why on earth was sega of America's CEO fired to begin with when he seemed to be the one who really knew what he was doing?

It looked to me from the videos that sony only tried to withhold it's ps1 fanbase not really to "destroy sega" like you put it. If anything, they were quick to pay for virtua fighter when sega announced that it would support all platforms. As the video said, Sega lost JP because of DVD not really sony. Sony was just smart to add DVD since they didn't have the launch titles (perhps they rushed so their ps1 customers didn't give up waiting in favor of DC).

At the end of the day, if you have to blame anyone for sega's downfall, you'd have to blame gamers their because they seemed more intent on watching dvds on ps2 than playing the great games on dreamcast and please don't tell me it was hype because after the ps2' launch it was obvious that the games weren't there yet but gamers waited for the games to come instead of buying DC. Or you could blame sega's management for poor planning and a bad model. It's obvious that they knew they already lost consumer confidence because the ex-CEO of sega of America said it himself.

Perhaps sega just rushed waay to early and most still loved their ps1s. I for one still loved mine and couldn't be bothered getting a new console till FFX considering the fact that FFix even came out on ps1 in 2000 which was after the DC launch.

By the time they were ready to move on, ps2 was established and DC was nowhere to be found. Rushing to market is never a good thing and a haemorrhage model is even worse. Many people held off on 360 as well till sony decided to launch ps3 for $600. As for the wii, it just breezed past both with it's new model. Would you say M$ killed ps3's potential or sony did it themselves?