money

Passion and creavity.

j/k, money

they have enough money to counter every fail, they never made any profit with the original xbox and barley made profit with the 360.

Well, when you can simply eat the losses of the Xbox without even blinking, you're in a different world. Microsoft had goals beyond just existing in the home console space from the very beginning. The 360 was closer to what they envisioned but I'd guess that the 720 will be much more in-line with their purposes of being a major media interface. They wanted what Sony had and beyond.

So, yeah, money. Who knows what would have happened if Sega had unlimited financing, because the DreamCast was awesome. However, there is still the fact that Sega has screwed up a lot of their own IP, so they might have killed themselves regardless.

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Dollar, Dollar Bill Y'all

Look, I'm normally hard on you because I care.  I'm afraid that you're being spoiled by all the compliments you get and it troubles my heart.  I don't want to see you living on the street, constantly talking of your past glory on VGC to all the other bums.

This, however, is worthy of praise.  I'm going to draw a flower on your worksheet.

Money. Microsoft lost billions on the Xbox and Xbox 360 before turning a dime in profit. If SEGA did what MS did, even in it's prime, SEGA would no longer even exist.

If SEGA even had half of what MS lost on the Xbox and Xbox 360 when they released the Dreamcast, they would probably still be a console maker. At the very least Dreamcast would have lasted a heck of a lot longer.

Also, Sonic is still in million selling games, he doesn't need to beg ;).

They had more money.

Ballmer's lucky bald spot