Chris Hu said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Well, I mean, Atari pretty much had a monopoly and then poofed out into nothingness. But yeah, Sega disappeared in a short 7 years, while Xbox has just lingered on since 2013. I guess my main point in this thread is that I'm far more excited to play Sega systems than I am Xbox systems. And with some key business changes I could see Sega being the one to survive and not Nintendo, or Xbox.
Master system just needed its best games to come out in all regions.
Sega CD could have worked as a CD-Variant of the Genesis and not an add-on. $20 Greatest hits CDs of Genesis classics would have been amazing on it.
Saturn really just needed to not surprise launch and to be sold in Target, Wal-Mart, Bestbuy, etc. Only being available in Toys R Us and Babbages was a death sentence. A ton of Saturn games never came to the west but that's because Saturn sold so poorly here that there was no point in bringing them over. Sega still would have lost the 5th gen to Sony but they could have made N64 the 9 million unit failure instead of Saturn. Saturn ending 1999 with 20 million units sold and then a more powerful Dreamcast launching in 2000 would have changed things for everyone.
Dreamcast just needed money. That's it. Just money that Sega didn't have. Money that a successful Saturn would have provided.
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Saturn was DOA when they announced the price would be $399. Sony killed them when they announced and launched the PS1 at $299.
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Have y'all noticed that each generation PlayStation won was when they announced their console price second, and it was usually lower than the competition? I mean, we could technically say that PlayStation lost the generation against Xbox 360, even though at the end PS3 sold more. In that gen, Sony announced the console price first and then Xbox. So there's a trend here that none of Sony's competition were able to figure out.
