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KungKras said:
AbbathTheGrim said:
KungKras said:
binary solo said:
sales2099 said:
Sony, because they killed Sega.

How did Sony kill sega?

Entering the market at the exact wrong time for Sega, while they had become vurnerable.

Moneyhatting devs to keep games off Saturn.

Announcing PS2 right before Dreamcast launch to try and kill momentum.

Yeah, Sony was brilliant.

About the bolded, I am not sure though. I recall Sony saying they never paid developers to stay exclusive. Can you provide links for proof?

If by brilliant, you mean unfair and evil. I guess Microsoft had been brilliant this generation though ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider_II

End of the development history paragrapf.

I don't know, Sony is still in the game and in route to pass the Xbox while Sega was forced to become a third party developer. But Microsoft did great this generation, not to the extent Sony achived in previous generations though.

That is an example of a game kept from Sega by Sony by getting an exclusivity contract, if Wikipedia's info is accurate. What other games are there? Or was it that the lack of Tomb Raider killed Sega? That's some strong footing Sega had right there then.



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1