@ Darth.
I don't think the competition from Sony helped Sega very much.

Oh yeah, how silly of me, i forgot.......... Sega are a multi billion dollar "corporation" who back then could advertise at will and moneyhat any 3rd party exclusive they liked, and Sony are just a humble gaming company.

Wait, its the other way round isn't it, oops.

So yes, like many others i blame sonys financial and advertising muscle for driving Sega out of this business.

Can't wait till Sony are on their knees, begging microsoft to stop bitch slapping them in a few years time.

^ So a bigger badder corperation taking over is better?!?!?

Although the irony of it all is .... well very ironic

Sega Saturn was popular in japan.

The rush of the Dreamcast actually may of been what killed Sony.    The Saturn could of kept them going while they built up their cash but they bankrupted themselves on dreamcast stuff.

I mean the add campaign just worked.

The soul of gaming was lost the day that sony lauched the ps1, it became a "corporate" business then, so yes, now Sega are gone i could not give a toss anymore who wins, as long as its not Sony.

Hence i'm in microsofts corner this gen.

And yes, it will be ironic when Microsoft crush sony, just goes to show that money talks now more than ever in this business.

puh-lease

they are ALL in it for the money, even nintendo was & IS

why the hell else is Wii Fit Plus coming out this fall?

SEGA was in it for the soul?

EXPLAIN the countless add-ons SEGA Genesis had

EXPLAIN Sonic CD's mode where you could play EXTRA MISSIONS if you had Sonic 1, 2 ,3 inserted into the other slot on the genesis (after buying the expensive add on ofcourse).........what a nice way to get people to buy SONIC 1,2,3 in order to be able to play extra content

SEGA invented "DLC" (more like buy the previous sonic games for extra stages on SONIC CD) back before the "evil" PS1 came out in a way

why did they do that? as SONIc was a phenomenon & people would buy those extra games just for those extra levels

all that made $$$ for SEGA too

its a good choice
i mean there wer tons of games from that system

Yeah I meant Soinc & Knuckles & my point isn;t changed 1 bit

"Combining the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 allowed the player to go through the game playing as Knuckles the Echidna. Combining Sonic & Knuckles with Sonic the Hedgehog 1 allowed the player to play through various bonus stages present in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and also repeated in Sonic & Knuckles (though accessing it was only possible through a cheat code). The true value of this game, however, was by connecting it with Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Buy doing this, it combines both games into a complete masterpiece of a game encompassing the stages of both games, to be played as Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles. Combining them not only carried over the save feature from Sonic 3, but also unlocked the ability to acquire 'Super Emeralds' which allowed Sonic or Knuckles to become Hyper (a level above 'Super') and for Tails to become Super Tails (something he couldn't do in the previous two games he appeared in).

This game was revolutionary. It was extremely well thought-out, it was fun, and the compatibility it had with the previous three Sonic games encouraged ravenous children to pester their parents to buy them the entire series."

http://nsgstation.com/article/49/1/sonic-retrospective-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-worlds-fastest-gaming-icon/

SORRY but that sounds like the DLC we get nowadays

A perfectly orchestrated scam to make sure SONIc fans buy all 3 of those games, a trick to trap kids into to make their parents spend more cash on sonic & so giving money to SEGA

_________

So what if MS & SONY want to sell you other things.

Atleast they don't sell you constant upgrades to a current gen console at huge prices (like SEGA did with genesis)

FACT is they are all in it for the money, claiming SONY started it with PS1 is lunacy

@ Darth

What he means with souls is probably that both Sega and Nintendo are game companies who desinged their systems around the games they wanted to make.

Sega were arcade kings and desinged their systems so that their arcade games would easily be ported to them.

Nintendo, as an old toy company designed their controllers and hardware around the software that they wanted to make.

This meant that the systems were very personal, and very special depending of the company that made them. The PC Engine, that was made by NEC, (a big electronics company similar to Sony) did not have the feel that the other systems of the time had (Megadrive and Super Nintendo)

When the PS1 came, Sony just bought some random game studios, threw some money at developers, and well BAM! there it is, a succesful console.

That's probably what he meant by the "soul" thing.

As for S3&K. I have all the 2D sonic games, so I know what they do. Sonic 3&Knukles is a full game on it's own, it is high quality and can be enjoyed by itself alone.

S3&K Was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3, but sega couldn't meet the deadline, so they had to split it into two games. While they did this, to compensate they added the lock-on with Sonic 2 to play as knuckles and additional content.

@ rol: S3&K is not compatible with Sonic 1

Thats precisely what i meant.

Sega and Nintendo are REAL gaming companies.

Sony got in to this business for all the wrong reasons................. they're just another greedy "corporation" who wait till somthing is becoming big and then jump on the bandwagon.