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arsenicazure said:

johnathonmerritt said:
I have no proof and I haven't read it anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Sega took a bow to Microsoft. The controller was a pre-360 design, the system ran Window CE, and the fact is that Sega could still be making games for the console today. It should rightfully be at the end of it's life cycle, but it's quite fishy that they announced it's death the same time the X-Box was released.

well.. SEGA in a bid of desperation wanted the XBOX to be the succesor to the dreamcast, which microsoft agreed to, only if sega signed on a dotted line that said " all future soft dev would be done on the windows platform". Sega obviously declined. In the end i think MS lost more than sega did. If they had allowed BC with the DC they'd have a potential extra 4-7 million players and a lot of sega exclusives. SEGA software+ MS money= win win for both

oh well..

back to my 360..

 

Sega and Microsoft certainly had a close relationship at the time but that all sounds a bit too speculative, got any citation?