OriGin on 01 May 2007
| mrstickball said: Did any of you grow up during 1991-1995? There is a reason Sonic doesn't sell on Nintendo systems: we (Sega owners) hate Nintendo dearly. They won the great war, and took the mascot of the true competitor to Nintendo hostage. When Sega disbanded, and lost major marketshare to Sony and Nintendo, the Sonic fans didn't goto Nintendo...They went to Sony. Between the dev support being on Nintendo (which is plain wrong), and the fact the Sega fanbase is really really disenfranchised (except for maybe buying lots of copies of Yakuza), they really have no motivation to buy a dead mascot's game. Let me ask you this: How well would Mario Galaxy sell if Nintendo sold out to MS tommorow? Answer: Nowhere near what it would on Wii. It's the same reason Sonic doesn't, never will, and won't sell on a Nintendo console: it's blasphemy of the highest type. Now Phantasy Star on the other hand......It'd do well, as it's a great friggin-tastic game. I hope for the days we get a true Phantasy Star single-player game. |
I completely disagree with these comments, Sonic has historically sold better on Nintendo's consoles than on Sony or Microsoft consoles. Sega aligned themselves with Nintendo with 'mascots' because of the familiarity and because of the target market of Nintendo's main audience (which was the same as Sega's - however Sega were always slightly more Arcade biased).
I personally USED to be a Sega fanboy and it ripped me apart when Sega cancelled it, I still think to this day that the Dreamcast is a better console than the PS2, in fact I've had more of a better time on the Dreamcast and it's few RPG's than I have had on some of the best RPG's on PS2.
Nintendo didn't kill Sega, Sony Bashed Nintendo and Consumers kicked Sega when they were down, the Dreamcast was a great console but in the end was far to easy to copy games for, I believe that the Dreamcast was really the beginning or 'spawn' of the ease of piracy because people were widespread downloading the games and burning them onto CD themselves. Piracy was the final nail in the coffin for the Dreamcast.
I personally USED to be a Sega fanboy and it ripped me apart when Sega cancelled it, I still think to this day that the Dreamcast is a better console than the PS2, in fact I've had more of a better time on the Dreamcast and it's few RPG's than I have had on some of the best RPG's on PS2.
Nintendo didn't kill Sega, Sony Bashed Nintendo and Consumers kicked Sega when they were down, the Dreamcast was a great console but in the end was far to easy to copy games for, I believe that the Dreamcast was really the beginning or 'spawn' of the ease of piracy because people were widespread downloading the games and burning them onto CD themselves. Piracy was the final nail in the coffin for the Dreamcast.
