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Which crashout was worse?

Sega 28 59.57%
 
Xbox 19 40.43%
 
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Cerebralbore101 on 30 January 2026
Chris Hu said:

Microsoft has been making games since 1982 when they released the first Microsoft Flight Simulator, so they been a real game company for over 40 years.  Also, since they now own Activision that goes back even further since they released their first games in 1980.  

Hardware wise and having to make a living entirely off games revenue, I mean. And no buying a company doesn't just retroactively give you credit to their past games or inventions. If MS bought Nintendo that wouldn't mean that you would be able to say that MS single handily saved the USA console market in the 80's. It doesn't work that way. 

Chris Hu said:

Saturn was DOA when they announced the price would be $399.  Sony killed them when they announced and launched the PS1 at $299.

Perhaps so. I went to check Japanese launch prices for the PS1 and Saturn. Saturn was only 12.5% more expensive than PS1 in Japan. So I could see that being a big reason why Saturn didn't fail in Japan. That and having way more games in the JP market. Not being in North American Wal-Marts, Targets, Bestbuys, etc. still did damage though. I could see Saturn hitting 20 million units sold without that surprise launch. Sega eventually dropped the price and offered an amazing pack-in deal to move Saturns in the USA but by then many of the big retailers didn't have shelf space to carry it. 

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Wman1996 on 30 January 2026

Sega was a video game corporation primarily for a while. Sega went from two home consoles that got second place globally to eventually the Dreamcast which was discontinued several months before GameCube and Xbox. Dreamcast did a lot right, but the damage was done.
Xbox is a division of Microsoft and pretty much a brand/division of Microsoft Gaming now. Xbox Game Pass is more relevant right now than Sega ever was.
It's a really tough pick, but I went with Sega. But Atari crashed out harder than either of them. And also had less quality hardware and software throughout the years.



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Davy on 31 January 2026

I love Sega for nostalgic reasons, especially Dreamcast was a console i would buy if there wasn't Playstation 2, but you cannot compare them.

Master System + Mega Drive + Saturn + Dreamcast= 59 million units Total

Xbox + 360 + Xbox One + Xbox Series = 200 million units Total



Cerebralbore101 6 days ago

Nevermind. My numbers were off. 

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Sogreblute 6 days ago
curl-6 said:
Sogreblute said:

We know there will be another Xbox system

We don't really know that though, as it's still a question mark as to whether the successor to the series will actually come to fruition.

Microsoft has confirmed multiple times they're making another console. What you're saying is "what if it's cancelled?" The fact is we know there's a new console coming and until Microsoft says otherwise we will expect it to come.



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curl-6 6 days ago
Sogreblute said:
curl-6 said:

We don't really know that though, as it's still a question mark as to whether the successor to the series will actually come to fruition.

Microsoft has confirmed multiple times they're making another console. What you're saying is "what if it's cancelled?" The fact is we know there's a new console coming and until Microsoft says otherwise we will expect it to come.

Again, not saying it will be cancelled, but I don't think we can discount the possibility given MS's behaviour in recent years and the fact that component prices have created a hostile environment for releasing a new console for the near future.



Cerebralbore101 6 days ago
Sogreblute said:
curl-6 said:

We don't really know that though, as it's still a question mark as to whether the successor to the series will actually come to fruition.

Microsoft has confirmed multiple times they're making another console. What you're saying is "what if it's cancelled?" The fact is we know there's a new console coming and until Microsoft says otherwise we will expect it to come.

An $800 gaming PC with an Xbox sticker on it is not a game console. 

curl-6 said:
Sogreblute said:

Microsoft has confirmed multiple times they're making another console. What you're saying is "what if it's cancelled?" The fact is we know there's a new console coming and until Microsoft says otherwise we will expect it to come.

Again, not saying it will be cancelled, but I don't think we can discount the possibility given MS's behaviour in recent years and the fact that component prices have created a hostile environment for releasing a new console for the near future.

MS is probably just going to release several pre-built PCs and call them Xboxes. 



Leynos 6 days ago

I just had an egg fart. It's an Xbox



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