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Raze on 03 January 2010

If this guy was in charge of Sega back in the day, it would explain why they got out of the hardware field.



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dunno001 on 03 January 2010
Xelloss said:

dunno001 said:

As for this idiot (at Sega), personally, I hope that Sega fires him for running his mouth. With all the partnerships Nintendo and Sega have been doing lately, for Sega to condone one of their employees doing this in their name would speak ill to Nintendo about said relationship. I'm not going to hold Sega responsible for these words, unless they send a PR person to back them up.

You should really take my previous advice, before commenting further. Listening to an interview, or reading it is usually necessary to make valid statements about said interview. Your comments continue to prove this point.

Regardless of whether he was joking or not, it is not something you say to the media publically. If you have a good working relationship with the other company, critizing them behind closed doors is a normal thing to do. (It happens in weak ones too, though that is more indicative of the partnership falling apart soon.) But never, should you speak ill of your partners while you are still actively paired with them. Even when Nintendo and Sony were "partners", they never spoke ill of each other- until the union ended (as Nintendo came out with Phillips).



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Xelloss on 03 January 2010
dunno001 said:
Xelloss said:

dunno001 said:

As for this idiot (at Sega), personally, I hope that Sega fires him for running his mouth. With all the partnerships Nintendo and Sega have been doing lately, for Sega to condone one of their employees doing this in their name would speak ill to Nintendo about said relationship. I'm not going to hold Sega responsible for these words, unless they send a PR person to back them up.

You should really take my previous advice, before commenting further. Listening to an interview, or reading it is usually necessary to make valid statements about said interview. Your comments continue to prove this point.

Regardless of whether he was joking or not, it is not something you say to the media publically. If you have a good working relationship with the other company, critizing them behind closed doors is a normal thing to do. (It happens in weak ones too, though that is more indicative of the partnership falling apart soon.) But never, should you speak ill of your partners while you are still actively paired with them. Even when Nintendo and Sony were "partners", they never spoke ill of each other- until the union ended (as Nintendo came out with Phillips).

 

 Ok, so where was he criticizing Nintendo again?

 This has flown by me, he talked about his view on Nintendos market and such but I cannot recall off the top of my head anywhere in the interview where he criticized Nintendo, or denigrated them in any way.



jefforange89 on 03 January 2010

Maybe that's why Sega isn't in the console business anymore, where as Nintendo's the industry leader?



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HappySqurriel on 03 January 2010
jefforange89 said:

Maybe that's why Sega isn't in the console business anymore, where as Nintendo's the industry leader?

There is a certain truth to this ...

A large portion of the reason why Sega was forced out of the console business was because they always focused on trying to fulfill the insatiable desires of the most demanding gamers. Between the Sega CD, Sega 32x, Sega Saturn, and the Sega Dreamcast Sega was heavily focused on producing a product to capture the most demanding of gamers and since these systems did not match the desires of more typical gamers they all saw very limited success. In contrast, the Playstation, PS2, Gameboy, GBA, DS, NES, SNES, and Wii have all been lacking in processing power and a variety of features that are available with the competition.

Had Sega focused more on meeting the demands of the broadest demographic of gamers possible rather than focusing on the demands of the elite few they might still be producing consoles today.



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BTSaga on 03 January 2010
foxxycontin said:
Khuutra said:
foxxycontin said:
johnsobas said:

that's not what he was talking about, he was saying the cube was $50, which it never was.  There was a sale on amazon sometime early last year where they sold the GC for $50, but it was just a clearance on amazon.  Wal-mart was giving away $100 gift cards when you buy a $200 system, doesn't mean anything. 

The point I was trying to say was, they were selling it for $100 in 2003. The Wii is just a Gamecube overclocked twice as fast. This goes into the conversation of if its possible for Nintendo to make a profit if the Wii was $80. I personally think it'd be a little more than that, but still, selling a Gamecube for $100 and still making a profit off of it says something.

I don't think that really captures the difference between the systems on any level

What's so different between them then?

go buy a wii and take it apart. otherwise shut up with the "two gamecubes" comments



BrandonM on 04 January 2010

How do they expect Nintendo to buy them when they make comments like this!



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demonfox13 on 04 January 2010

Sounds about right what he says.



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XiaoMay on 04 January 2010

This guy should be put to death...


For our own good and for Sega's own good...

 

Sega could sell crappy old DC ports on Wii (hod 2&3, samba de amigo) or crappy "new games" (sonic, sonic tennis, sonic kart, sonic morron smasher...) for 10€...

 

 



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Diglet on 04 January 2010

80$ may be to break even, but profit?
Not that much.
Is he saying they are maing 120$ on each console now?