Dmick90 on 01 March 2013
| Pristine20 said: I'd say that manufacturer success/failure depends more on what they do moreso than what the competition does. Look at Ninty, they just do their own thing and are still around. Sega just screwed up with the DC but if they were a bigger company, they'd still be in the manufacturing business. Releasing so many consoles back to back was like giving 3rd parties a middle finger especially the way they dropped support for their old systems. This just created distrust from both gamers and developers alike and eventually led to their demise. A smaller company would have gone bankrupt in the early years of the ps3. I got the thing 5 months after launch and spent more time playing the likes of FFXII, Persona 4 and other ps2 games mosreso than ps3 games for the 1st year or 2 after I got the console. |
Exactly, smaller companies like Sega can't afford to f... up sadly. It wasn't that their products weren't good it's just Sony's marketing money overwhelmed Sega in the end. Microsoft and Sony have much more breathing room to fall back on in the case of the RROD or Sony's PSN hacking. If Sega were making the PS3 in the early years, they wouldn't have survived.
