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Golvellius on 04 July 2008
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Aj_habfan said:
Golvellius said:
Aj_habfan said:
Yea, let's go with that. Or maybe it's because after genesis you released shitty add-on after shitty add-on, mixed with a couple shitty consoles, and lost all respect by the time you smartened up.

 

What are you talking about? Saturn was a decent console with decent games (too few of them though), Dreamcast was a great console with great games (quite a lot of them actually). Had Sega had more money, they would still be making hardware.

What essentially put them out of business was Sony's (money-driven) competition. It kind of satisfies me therefore that Sony now gets to feel what it's like to have a competitor that simply does not have to care about money.

It doesn't matter how good they were. After Genesis, there was 32X, Sega CD which were expensive, shitty, and had support pulled quickly. That already is enough to hurt a companies reputation. Not to mention the Nomad.

Sega Saturn did good in Japan, but shit everywhere else. So bad, Sega was already talking about it's replacement 2 years after it's release.

Dreamcast was solid, but by this point Playstation had established itself as the dominant brand and Sega's reputation was in the hole. Sega screwed over their customers time and time again, and I'm glad they payed the price.

 

 

I cannot see where they "screwed over their customers". The only unnecessary thing was the 32X, but anyone with some common sense could easily figure out that this wouldn't get a lot of software support, given the imminent Saturn release.

You actually agree that Saturn and DC were good products - how is it Sega's fault if they underperform saleswise despite the availability of good games?

"When DC was released, Sega's reputation was in the hole" - correct, but solely because of Sony's dominance who had way more (3rd party) blockbuster games on their platform, that's why it underperformed even though it had fantastic games. So one could say that it was Sony's fault that the DC didn't receive the acceptance it deserved.