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Tridrakious on 23 September 2009
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CGI-Quality said:
KungKras said:
Tridrakious said:
 


Sony had those billions because they were smart. Yes Sony had a hand in the demise of the Dreamcast.

But Sega as a whole was in terrible shape before the Dreamcast launched. Sega was looking at this console to be the savior for them, but the same management problems led to it's demise as well.

Sony had those billions because they are a huge corporation. About one hundred times as big as Sega.

You don't become a huge corporation out of no where though. Smart business decisions are a factor, so he is correct.

That goes for any corporation though...


Thank you CGI for pointing that out.

While Sony is a multi-billion dollar corporation. They didn't get to that point by making bad decisions. Which is almost all that Sega did during the 90's.

It's easy to just point out that Sony is the cause for Sega's hardware demise, but that isn't the only factor. Sony had an open door development policy throughtout their first 2 generations. they became very (understandibly though) arrogant with the launch of the PS3. Which I think they have come a long way to prove that they are back in the trenches fighting this "war" with Nintendo and Microsoft.

Nintendo was pushed to their limits as well by Sony. Not because Sony was "money hatting", but because they let developers into the "circle". They made it easy for 3rd parties to learn the Playstation 1/2 tech in return they help train Sony on how to make games. That was the biggest selling point with the PS1.