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Which crashout was worse?

Sega 28 59.57%
 
Xbox 19 40.43%
 
Total:47

Xbox's was worse. A lot of people like to say Sega, because Xbox is still around. But Xbox has an unnaturally long life cycle due to infinite money propping them up. Also, Sega had way stiffer competition. Without the money to get Xbox off the ground it would have gone nowhere. And the Red Ring fiasco would have killed any company if Xbox didn't have the money to fix every broken Xbox 360 for free. Sega Saturn was a failure but that is almost entirely to Sega panicking at the last minute and surprise launching Saturn in the states. This pissed off every retailer making it so Sega Saturn was only sold at Babbages and Toys R' Us. This last minute panic launch by Sega was caused by the fact that they were up against the PS1, which went on to sell more than both 16 bit systems combined. Then the Dreamcast had to go up against the PS2. Remove Sony from the picture and Sega would still have consoles to this day. Meanwhile, Xbox has been competing against a Sony that has gotten more lackluster since the PS4 days.

Oh and as Leynos has alluded to, there's more fun unique games on a single Sega system than there are on Xbox Series. Seriously, you could have bought a Genesis in 2020 and you would have more new console exclusives on Genesis from 2020 to 2025 than Xbox Series.

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 29 January 2026

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Don't fuck up threads with endless lists that you copy/pasted from elsewhere, 2 CPU cores on a Ryzen 9950X @100%, 10GB of Ram for the tab and water cooler fans at 100% isn't a good sign. - Pemalite.

Last edited by Pemalite - on 29 January 2026

Xbox Series is at 34~ million hardware units...

Which is still:
* 10~ million more hardware units than the original Xbox.
* 12~ million more hardware units than the Gamecube.
* 20~ million more hardware units than the WiiU.
* 4~ million more hardware units than the Sega Genesis.
* 24~ million more hardware units than the Sega Master System.
* 25~ million more hardware units than either the Sega Saturn or Sega Dreamcast.

Microsoft can still justify the release of a next-generation console, although, bets are they will delay that release due to the RAM/NAND price rises and shortages.




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Hey cerebralbore, can you please remove that super-long list, I think is has broken the thread, on my end anyway.



Is it just me or is the second page of this topic busted. It won't load right. I can only reply from the first page.



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Well shit. I didn't mean to break the page with a 300 item list. I did copy/paste it from an excel file I had, so maybe that's the problem. How is this site so busted that it can't handle a 200 or 300 game list? @Pemalite. I promise I wasn't trying to nuke your CPU LMAO!



Sega and it isn't even close. Sega went from amazing system to Sega cd which was hot garbage with barely any games.. but that wasnt enough, they out did themselves with the 32x which had even a more limited selection.

Sega went from amazing to absolute garbage faster than any company I've seen before.

DC was good, but far too late to redeem themselves.



“Consoles are great… if you like paying extra for features PCs had in 2005.”

Yeah, Xbox is still going and it's more of a managed decline that Microft is actually going for, because they want to change the business model now.



Cerebralbore101 said:

Well shit. I didn't mean to break the page with a 300 item list. I did copy/paste it from an excel file I had, so maybe that's the problem. How is this site so busted that it can't handle a 200 or 300 game list? @Pemalite. I promise I wasn't trying to nuke your CPU LMAO!

There may have been HTML in it that broke things.
My CPU is fine, 2 CPU Cores/threads out of 32 threads isn't going to hurt it, it just got warm and I have an aggressive fan curve, no small part to Australian summer and 50'c/122'f temperatures currently.




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Chrkeller said:

Sega and it isn't even close. Sega went from amazing system to Sega cd which was hot garbage with barely any games.. but that wasnt enough, they out did themselves with the 32x which had even a more limited selection.

Sega went from amazing to absolute garbage faster than any company I've seen before.

DC was good, but far too late to redeem themselves.

Sega CD was amazing if you knew what games to get. 

Sonic CD
Lunar
Lunar 2
Snatcher
Robo Aleste
Battlecorps
Final Fight CD
Silpheed
Rise of Dragon
Dark Wizard
Samurai Shodown
Popful Mail
Dungeon Explorer
Panic
Soulstar
Thunderhawk
Lords of Thunder
Vay
Bariarm
Terminator
Flashback
Heart of the Alien
Dungeon Explorer (Third game in the series, but renamed to #1 for some reason. Not a port of the original on PCE.)
Ecco 
Ecco 2
Kei Flying Squadron
Shining Force CD


32x however was definitely junk. 

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 29 January 2026