I am trying to type decent but I sometimes get ina rush, and I dont ever take the time to use spell check but I am starting to type better and will try and correct major mistakes before posting. so as not to offend people.
be thankful its internet people NOONE can read my handwritting, not even me half the time
But the points I was trying to make hopefully got threw to bonehead topic creator. Sega lost this round because of MASSIVE acrued debt and fans who lost fait, AND Playstation 2 had a much larger userbase going in and far more hype.
I will tell you what my knowledge of Sega FAR surpasses my knowledge of Nintendo (which is thoroughly extensive enough) and theres just nothing that makes the Revolution ANYTHING like the Dreamcast. Sega made HUGE mistakes and so far Nintendos mistakes regarding Rev are minimal, well Revmote could be a HUGE flop but its still potential for success we dont know yet.
But I will draw the picture this way, compare contrast for better clearification.
When Sega began working on DC they were in massive debt and losing image and customer base
Right now Nintendo is actualy gaining userbase and faith and is still maintianing a profit.
When Sega began work on DC they had spent millions of dollars desgining asystem with a certain company and out of teh blue Sega of Japan who had a different chipset decided to switch over to the different system and caused a lawsuit costing not only millions of R&D dollars but legal fees, of wich they lost the fight and had to pay more massive ammounts of money to the party involved.
With Revolution Nintendo has built strong partnerships with thier chip makers AND has so far avoided legal battles by paying royalties where needed, (sony skimped on this and it cost them big bucks too)
Sega was following the dreamcast after three major failures, teh Sega CD, the Saturn and the 32X
Nintendo has had 1 major failure the Virtual Boy a,d the GC was nominaly succesful although not as good as they predicted it would be.
Sega caused a split in thier fanbase by confusing people with teh Nepturen Saturn debacle and many people felt they LIED to them too many times and would not buy a nother sega system ever, this ment many people were unwilling to even consider DC at first, myself included despite my loyalty to SEGA.
Dreamcast had serious 3rd party problems, they had Namco Capcom and a hadnfull of others making games but the major players like Ubisoft, EA, konami, and Activision had all pretty much ignored the system.
SO FAR Ubisfot, Namco, Activision, EA, Capcom, Konami, and many others have already pledge support of the system and are singing nothing but praises.
Dreamcast was using a form of CD that was superior to regular cd but smaller than DVD, which thier major competitors were all using.
Nintendo is going to be using a DVD standard that is pretty much on par with at least Microsofts system so wont be a major disadvantage this time around.
Sega was a dieng company fighint a losing battle.
nintendo is a wealthy company with a huge fanbase and a lot going for them.
I honestly think Revolution will be the number 1 console but its gonna take awhile to get there.
Sega even has a chance tomake a comeback if they wanted to, their fanbase has been growing, they now make huge profits instead of suffering losses and their catelog of games continues to grow and inprove yearly and if they chose to implement a backwards compatible system similar to Rev they have the same ammount of games going as far back as Nintendo does and could easily compete if they chose to.
Topic: Next Gen. Dreamcast (Read 29929 times)
