What made Microsoft succeed where Sega could not?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

burninmylight said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Burn in my light, the arcade also cannibalized the sales of sega consoles post genesis. Why would Sega put out superior versions of the same games else where for twenty-five to fifty cents? They gave only die hards an incentive to buy the dreamcast. Most of the casuals who played Sega games enjoyed them in movie theaters, amusement parks, pool halls and arcades.

You think so? I believe the opposite: the Dreamcast and every console since killed the arcade scene (here in America, at least). What made the arcade scene so great here was that you had all these ultra powerful, state of the art machines either playing games you couldn't get at home or playing them on a level not possible on a console. The Dreamcast is when consoles really started to catch up to the arcadses, and suddenly Virtua Fighter 3tb, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi and the like suddenly weren't so special when you went out. Why waste 75 cents (I wish they were still only 25-50 cents in the late 90s!) on King of Fighters or House of the Dead when I got the game at home?

The arcade machines that survived were the ones that you couldn't replicate at home: the Dance Dance Revolutions, the Mo Cap Boxing, the ones that used some peripheral that wasn't available on a home console. Otherwise, the only reason to sink quarters into an arcade machine was to play some stranger in Soul Calibur who looked like he might be good.

By the way, be sure to quote me so I don't miss your response.

Nah, I believe the Playstation destroyed the arcade, because it overran the home console market with games that were already in the arcade and multitudes that werent and eventually it came full circle into the home. It also threatened the PC market when it expanded the marketshare of the console realm. PC devs started to jump ship to consoles after the first Playstation came, and so did Microsoft cause Sony kind of shocked the world as to what a console could do, being multimedia/gaming system. Sega's only sellers for the consoles were their hottest games in the arcade, thus cannibalizing every thing they had to offer at home. Sony even stated themselves as a threat to the PC market, which prompted Microsoft join. I found that out after watching the history of the Xbox. 

You're right, the arcade games that survived were the ones you couldn't replicate at home. Some games like Tekken became a household name after the Playstation came out though and shifted popularity from arcade to console. Nintendo themselves never put a dent in Arcade gaming, because the superior versions of the games were always in the arcade.