S.T.A.G.E. said:
walsufnir said:
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haha, yea the internet rants will be glorious to read ;)
I've participated in the coordinated DDoS (simply trying to log in) on Blizzards servers at the Diablo3 launch together with my pals and we had a lot of fun, we even got to play a bit at like 2:30 am :) .
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I always have to shake my head when this happens! "We didn't expect such a high demand" "Overwhelmed by so many customers" to talk your ass out of "damn, we didn't get our tech together. Again". I mean really, buy yourself more bandwidth from CDNs, rent a few more servers, rent a few cloudservers from Amazon... I remember the WiiU-launch and the update. I just had to lol.
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I heard the Saturn didnt sell because Sega blindsided consumers with the launch. Everyone was surprised by it and not financially prepared for the console.
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No the reasons were different back then. Sega was in competition only with Nintendo before and Sony rushed into the market with a lot of money - more than you would imagine for a rather small market back then. Sega did some last-minute changes to Saturn (yes, dam similarities :D) but had the inferior 3d-hardware and were also more expensive (again, dam sim... you get it?) but the main reason was especially marketing.
Playstation was *everywhere* in Europe. TV-ads, magazines, events, formula1-races... Everywhere Playstation. Sega had absolutely no chance to market their system in an equal way and so the money won that generation. Once the Playstation established itself it was a very rich and nice generation, like I said before.
