Sega Almost Licensed The Technology That Went Into The Virtual Boy

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Ka-pi96 said:

JRPGfan said:

disolitude said:
Man I love Tom Kalinske. Such a cool cat.

Se lets recap:

1. Sega talked to SGI first and turned them down, hence they went to nintendo to make n64
2. Sega talked to Sony after they parted ways with nintendo and they agreed on a joint console idea, but Sega of Japan turned them down
3. Sega talked to 3DO for a console but turned them down
4. Sega talked to Virtual Boy people as well but turned them down also

Sega then released the mess that was the Saturn.

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1) Thats unlucky. N64 turned out great for nintendo.

Yeah but largely because it had Mario, Zelda & Rare. So even if Sega had made an N64 like console unless Nintendo decided to release their games on it instead of having their own console it still would have been a failure and mostly forgotten about by now.

Not true at all. 

Sega was no slouch with game development. Sony didn't know jack shit about game development in 1995 and they won that gen by having a powerful easy to develop for console that attracted 3rd party development. They didn't have zelda and mario as well...

Sega was going to make a CD based system and with n64, they could have had a powerful and easy to develop system with a CD drive that would have attracted devs much more so than the Saturn. 

Most importantly, Sega of America would have never made the 32X if either Sony or SGI deal was accepted by Sega of Japan. It's only after SOJ turned everything down and said its Saturn on bust did Sega of America freak out and make the 32X to keep the Genesis alive for as long as possible. They knew Saturn was going to blow donkey penis.