Now i see why so many people wants a new one :) looks nice, I'll have to take off the dust of my dreamcast :P

i liked the Dreamcast so i dont think im to blame.

jetset amazing

Well the argument behind your argument here is that a lot of gamers complain about lack of innovation and new interesting experiences. I think this article is directed at them.

Its like...fans say things like "Boo...why is dead space a rail shooter on the wii...why can't they do something cool and original...booo"

Well its because the 3rd person action game did not really burn up the charts on ps360 and its cheaper to do a rail shooter then risk another high budget flop. Also, the fact that rail shooters on the wii do very well is another bonus...

I don't think gamers owed anything to Sega...but they are guilty in having sega become another run of the mill type of publisher. 

And this isn't jsut for hardcore gaming. Lets see if "Lets Tap" does well on the wii...seems like another original and fun game idea by Yuji Naka, Sonic the Hedgehog programmer and co-creator. Sega funded his studio and I believe is publishing his game. If it fails, sega will have another shitty sonic ready for the masses very fast... Cut, fold, paste...next!

I used to be an Anti-sega guy for a while (1995-2001), but I've become a Sega fan after I bought several of their games in the past few months (Valkyria Chronicles, the Yakuza series, VF5)

I LOVE(d) Smilebit, and their games (JSRF, Gunvalkyrie, PDO) were the very reason I purchased an Xbox at all. I even bought a copy of Orta before I had the system itself. They also developed the best game EVER, The Typing of the Dead.

I was greatly saddened when Sega shuffled all their internal teams and put Smilebit to rest. Bastards.

I did not fail Sega. I supported them. Quit blaming me!!!

This is just wrong.  The video game idustry had record revenues in 2008.  If it was the recession that was the problem, revenue would be down.

As for the article as a whole, a publisher should not expect the first game of a new IP to be a smashing success.  Very few games are like that.  As long as the first one makes some money, make a better sequel and grow the franchise.  Marketing doesn't hurt either.  My suspicion is that the average consumer had no clue about these games, so they stayed away.  You can't really blame someone for thinking, "If it was good, I would have heard about it."

I bought almost all of those Sega games and systems. My conscience is clear.

Perhaps I was allowing the title to colour my impression of the article too much. It does sound rather accusatory.

There's certainly plenty of evidence that gamers shy away from the unfamiliar. EA and Activision's current fortunes are a good demonstration of that. I don't think Dead Space: Extraction is a good example, though, because many of the complaints stem from EA trying to do something different with the franchise on Wii. People aren't just angry because it's a rail shooter, they're angry because it's deviating from the established gameplay of the IP. Extraction was under development long before the original Dead Space got its tepid reception in the market, so I don't think that impacted their decision on how they'd make Dead Space for Wii.