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Gaming - How'd You Do It? 2 - View Post

d21lewis on 02 March 2017
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CaptainExplosion said:
d21lewis said:

Some of these just weren't good ideas.

 

Nintendo was like 80% of the home console industry when the Genesis launched. If they launched head to head with the Super NES, they would have been dead on arrival. By launching first (and constantly keeping their price lower than the SNES), they were able to hold off Nintendo for a few years and build their brand. Basically, the did what Xbox 360 did.

 

As a result, they didn't know what improvements Nintendo was going to bring. Nobody prioritized sound in those days until the SNES. And, based on when they launched, they didn't expect Mode 7 or controller improvements.

 

I was a Nintendo fanboy but, up until the add one, Sega was doing everything right in my opinion. They just abandoned their aging hardware a little too early trying to get the Saturn on the market. And I agree. Those shitty add-ons didn't help. Nobody bought them, even if they worked.

Well would the six-button controller at launch idea be a good one at least?

That actually would have been awesome! 

Your ideas went bad. It's just a case of hindsight being 20/20. At the time, Sega didn't know they were screwing up. They were setting the precedent of screwing up.

 

It's like PS1 not having analog sticks at launch or Xbox 360 not having WI Fi or HDMI. They weren't "future proof" because they didn't know they needed to be.