| EdStation3 said: The article says that that actual details of the Nintendo/Square split were yet to be explained but mentions that they ran into roadblocks because of the N64's limits. It also says that you've been lying...the allegations that Sony xbribed square are totally made up. As for the Saturn...I've explained...they had a history for releasing and then killing off consoles early(Like MS did with the XBox)...unstabble. That's why many 3rd party devs shuned Sega. No. Microsoft bought majority control of Rare, seeing how Nintendo or any company could not afford it. With MS owner the majority it made no sense for Nintendo to hold onto a company they had no control over. MS just goes around "Oh DMC exclusive on PS2....mine! Tekken exclusive on PS2....mine! Rare from Nintendo....mine!" Just taking other peoples exclusive. They should put that 50million into a new IP instead of cutting into someone elses exclusies/game studio. |
The article actually doesn't say anything regarding Sony deals. You can quit with the "lying" trolling too, try to elevate and not degrade the discourse please.
And no, Sega didn't have a history of cutting and running at that point. They'd killed Mega CD and 32X, but those were MegaDrive extensions, not systems in and of themselves. Nintendo killed similar platform extensions FDS and BSX in pretty much the same manner. At the time Square moved to PlayStation (1995), Saturn was the next gen console leader... it's only after Square dropped the FFVII bomb publicly that PS1 started to overtake Saturn. And really, it's only after Saturn that Sega gained the reputation you're talking about. Saturn actually had amazing 3rd party support upfront.
As for the Rare stuff, you've already been disproven above (Nintendo declined to buy them before Microsoft). And funny enough, Mikami wanted to port DMC1 to GameCube in 2002 but was blocked due to a Sony exclusivity deal. Again; KARMA.
