If you were a loyal supporter of a company (Sega) and they were driven out of the hardware business by some damn corporation (sony) wouldn't you support the company (Microsoft) that is most likely to drive Sony out of the gaming business?

Theres no doubt that sony are getting a taste of their own medicine this gen with regards to Microsoft having more money to burn than their competitors (Just like sony had more money to burn when they took out Sega)

There is just one pretty big difference. PS1 made huge pile of money even with Sony buying some exclusives. Original Xbox lost huge pile of money. If I remember right even more than Sony has lost this gen with PS3. Any other manufacturer and they would have left console business after losses what original xbox made.

It's a very easy answer. Microsoft has much more money. The first Microsoft console didn't do very well at all. There wouldn't have been another if it weren't for the amount of money that they were willing to invest.

If Microsoft had consoles perform like the Saturn and then the Dreamcast it wouldn't be a very big deal at all. Microsoft will have a console as long as Bill Gates wants one made, regardless of how it does financially. It's really as simple as that.

There should be a dedicated thread on just the fuck ups of Sega. It is so laughably bad on how much they screwed up the Saturn (despite it had the best port of Daytona and Virtual Cop.)

A thread dedicated to all of the mistakes in gaming by all companies would be even more entertaing. As long as it wouldn't turn into a fanboy war.

Microsoft could afford loosing billions.

Sega couldn't

That's it.

I don't really understand how people can make stupid statements like this.

It's as if they think the lost money itself is the problem and not the business decisions that brought it about.

Yeah, I think Nintendo's list would be the second biggest one next to sega.