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kain_kusanagi on 18 August 2012
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ClassicGamingWizzz said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I buy a lot of Sony products. My camera is a Sony, my TV is a Sony, and obviously my Playstations are all Sony. But I'd be lying if I said the Sega fan in me didn't resent how Sony killed the Dreamcast with empty promises of the PS2. I still love my PS2 and Dreamcast, but damn do I wish people hadn't waited for the PS2 while they ignored the stellar Dreamcast. Like I said, it's not hate and it doesn't stop me from buying Sony products, but it's a wound that hasn't fully healed.

GO to this thread : http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=146576&page=1#maxposts

you guys talk  about sony broken promises, but you forgot the lame pr tactics and campaigns sega made about nintendo back in the day.

" ninteDON´T " and blast process lol

The rivalry between Sega and Nintendo was nothing compared to Sony's brute force attack on the industry. The Genesis and SNES fought over a marginal 50% of the industry. Sony took the industry over. The Playstation destroyed both the Saturn and N64. Both of which had truly great games. The Dreamcast had some of the best games of the generation, but nobody bought it.

Why didn't they buy it? There are three reasons and only one of them is Sega mistakes. The other two reasons are; The Playstation brand was "cool", and Sony said the PS2 would be able to do photorealism. When the Dreamcast hit the market Sony started saying the PS2 would be "Toy Story" quality. Gamers decided to ignore the amazing games on Dreamcast and wait for the promised superiority of the PS2. When the PS2 did finally hit the market it had no great games for a year and the ones it did have didn't look any better than Shenmue on Dreamcast. But it was too late for Sega and the Dreamcast died early, before it could be optimized. Even when devs started optimizing the PS2's graphics the games never looked or played substantially better than the Dreamcast. We lost an innovator and an industry co-founder because people believed the Sony hype machine. Sega was in trouble financially after the Saturn got taken out by the Playstation. Sega pined all their hopes on the Dreamcast. They did everything right and it should have been a success. When I play my Dreamcast I can't help but notice how ahead of it's time it was.

It doesn't matter that Sega labeled it's faster processor "Blast processing", or correctly stated that the Genesis could do what the NES could not. What matters is Sony intentionally killed the Dreamcast with a lie.  I'm an old school gamer and Sega is a big part of my childhood. Watching Sony destroy something I loved isn't something I can easily forget even after I've moved on. Like I said, I don't hate Sony and I enjoy their products. I just wish I had a Dreamcast 2 and could play Shenmue 3. The Xbox was the last straw that broke the Dreamcast's back, but Sony packed on bail after bail. It was just business, but it crippled one of my favorite game companies.