J_Allard on 11 May 2013
| Angelus said: Money, and innovation. Yes, that's right innovation. XBL might not be the gold standard anymore, but MS revolutionized online gaming on consoles. Just sayin...... |
Sega beat MS to the punch with a centralized online gaming network on consoles with SegaNet. Hell they even charged fees to play online, and gave away consoles for a cheaper price with IIRC a one and a half year contract to SegaNet.
MS took their idea and expanded on it and improved it in virtually every way and added tons of their own stuff. Not to mention backed it with the billions of dollars the undertaking took. But they owe a lot of it to Sega because per usual, Sega paved the way.
You really could say money AND innovation lead to Sega's demise. They were always too far ahead of their own time and paid for it dearly and eventually just ran out of funds.
