Why did Microsoft succeed where Sega failed?

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disolitude said:

Mr Khan said:

disolitude said:
Sega could have ass raped everyone had they had united management in 1994-1997.

With America pulling one way, Japan pulling the other way...and neither knew what the other market needed to succeed.

They did get united with the Dreamcast but it was too late. Money ran out and market changed...

This explains it more fully. This was why Saturn was so rabidly popular in Japan, but was a meager also-ran in every other region. The japanese management fought for supremacy and won, but instead of their victory uniting the company, they just left the other branches out in the cold to suffer while they had fun back home.

 

Stronger American management, like Peter Moore, helped the Dreamcast be a console for every region, but by then it was too late for Sega to make a difference.

Exactly.

However even without the worst management in history sega had some issues.

Sega had a mentality of "Company cant be standing still on a moving train market"...so their R&D was always busy with ways to reinvent the wheel. Turns out the round wheel works just fine...and all they had to do is ride out the Genesis success and gracefully migrate to Saturn in 1995.

Retarded add-ons, surprise launches, canceled games (still waiting for eternal champions, Streets of rage and Sonic Xtreeme), pulling console support early...all weren't necessary. Sega had amazing arcade division and great internal software division as well that at its prime rivaled nintendo. On top of that, they were more inventive than nintendo and showed they can lead with ideas such as online play and voice chat.

 

JINX!!! ...Kinda wish I read the thread further before I said basically the same thing...