Wow.

This is why Sega is no longer a console company anymore.

Stuff like this near sighted. Stupid business decisions is the reason Sega is no longer around in the console business.

Sony was smarter back then. They fell into the same arrogant stupid mental state for the first 2 years of the PS3's life, but Have obviously fought through it.

Sega properties are not selling well though. The place where it is selling highest is on the Wii. And Sony has lost a whole lot of money in the games division the last few years. Sega is not a small studio either. They are a major publisher. It would probably take a close to a billion to get them. Given the performance of the game in general it is not a good move. Yes, VC was profitable, but it isn't a break out title. Its good enough to put faith in a sequel of the series, but they are not confident they could pull a profit with it on the PS3 even though the engine already exists.

This is only looking at it from Sony's perspective mind you. Sega stockholders would fight it kicking and screaming. Most of their success has come from the Wii and DS. Look at how unbelievably successful Mario and Sonic at the Olympics is. The series is essentially a money printing machine that you lose. Sonic games have done much better on the Wii as well. Despite having two seperate series, they are both selling at better rates than what you see on the PS3. This all means Sony would have to spend way more than the company could possibly bring in.

This hurts Sega due to loss of profit from a few series (one of which cannot transfer), lower sales, and loss of independance. Sony would have to spend so much more than they could make back that it would be ridiculous. When the company is barely profitable, and most of the profits come from competing platforms you have to go way out of your way to make shareholders want to sell to you. It really would be a lose/lose proposition. Especially considering Sega is still willing to work with Sony to get stuff like Dreamcast titles on PSN and the like.

I'm at work right now, so i don't have my History of the Famicom-Playstation document with me.

Sure, Sega made some bad decisions, but unlike Sony, they didn't have BILLIONS OF $$$$$$$$ to sweep their mistakes under the carpet with.

If you don't think that Sonys financial and advertising muscle had somthing to do with Segas demise then you are wrong.

I'm not posting in here anymore, all Sega/Sony threads make my blood boil.

I actually liked the controller, but that's a different story.

Sony had those billions because they were smart. Yes Sony had a hand in the demise of the Dreamcast.

But Sega as a whole was in terrible shape before the Dreamcast launched. Sega was looking at this console to be the savior for them, but the same management problems led to it's demise as well.

News like this makes me so happy.

Great news for SEGA, SEGA fans and Sony

I can only hope!

@CGI

Sorry, but I have to agree with Gnizmo. I think everyone here is celebrating the wrong thing, and you're all going to find out that you're very wrong about what you think they mean. And I said it first, everyone just ignored it=P

Did anyone even see the Sonic Collection for $99, right after they mention the Dreamcast games? Hello??? Anyone??? It's OBVIOUSLY a Dreamcast compilation. What other console compilation will it be? Sega Master system? Sega CD? Wouldn't be $99. If they can fit, say, 20 or so hit exclusive Dreamcast games on Blu-Ray disc (or multiple discs would be my guess based on the amount), who wouldn't buy that for $99? I most likely would, I can tell you that.

PS2 emulation is something I've been saying they'll be bringing back ever since SONY said they aren't going to bring it back. Check the thread where that was announced..but Dreamcast emulation is a figment of your dreams. Be good with a Dreamcast compilation on Blu-Ray, cuz I'll make a bet that that's all you're going to get.

That's right, Sega earned a great reputation with the Megadrive/Genesis, and they ruined it with 2 failed add-ons (CD & 32x) and a console with a lot of problems (Saturn), I remember devs complaining about 1: Using quadrilaterals instead of triangles, 2: Not being able to handle both chips, 3: Reading issues, 4: Sega pulled the plug waay too early like with the previous add-ons so devs went berserk at this point...

Dreamcast is a genius console with great games, but between the ruined reputation, the piracy issues and shortage problems, (not to mention that they did almost the same thing that Ninty did with the 1.5 GB minidisc) no wonder they failed...

Sony had those billions because they are a huge corporation. About one hundred times as big as Sega.