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"come back Sega"

I was going through some of my old stuff (my place is a tip and well it had to be cleaned up some time) when I came across my Sega mega drive. Memories of countless hours spent on sonic and streets of rage came flooding back. I would like to think that I am quite the gamer; I own quite a few consoles. One by one I found my N 64, my play station. Then I came across an object I hadn’t seen or thought about for a long time. It was my Sega dream cast. I was bored from all the cleaning so I decided to give the old machine a go. Playing the dream cast brought back all my long lost passion for Sega consoles and games. When every kid grows up, they usually develop a bond with a certain brand of console whether it is a Sony play station, Nintendo 64 etc. For me it was Sega. While other kids would be controlling Mario or shooting enemies with Lara croft I was much happier speeding around with sonic and tails.

I stopped playing my dream cast and took a glance at my shelf where I keep all my new consoles. There was my game cube and ps2 but there was no new and improved Sega console. Sega for me was the champion when it came to the console wars. But when they decided to stop making anymore consoles I was shocked.

Now days there are 3 main console giants the game cube, x box, ps2. All with excellent graphics and sounds and each one brings something new to the gaming table. But what if Sega had stayed in the game, who knows maybe right now we could have been playing a console ahead of its time.

Despite the fact they continue to make games I believe that since they are no longer in the console war they haven’t got that urge, passion, competitive spirit they had before which made them work harder and be more creative to come up with such classic games.

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Shame a lot of the in-house EA games are crap.

So it would be Fifa, TimeSplitters, Burnout and a few other sports titles.

Not enough to sustain a console properly, it'd end up like the Cube as a console many buy to supplement their main console.

Also Ubisoft are trying to increase their market share and if EA went off any of the platforms you can be sure that Ubisoft would be more than happy to bring out titles to fill any gaps left by EA. Ubisoft are also better than EA when it comes to refinement and online play on consoles so EA could find themselves in serious trouble if they made such a risky move.

Yeah, but they would make all their franchises exclusive, and people may want to buy them. It would be the ultimate chav machine. There would be a department where your weed and Kappa clothing could go :p

Thing is that EA will put their games on every format regardless so it won't work.

Oh christ I remember that! I remember with the Saturn that there was basically one advert that had proper in-game footage, and that featured 'Sonic R'. What SEGA did wrong was that they relied on the popularity of the Mega Drive really heavily, and the Saturn just died underneath the Playstation's shadow.

Rumour has it that SEGA are going to make a comeback in the console scene, but that is so unlikely. EA might though, lol.

I remember when they bought out entire ad breaks to advertise the Saturn with a stupid talking skull.

Idiots.

No, they did not go bankrupt, they had to stop the production of the Dreamcast otherwise they would go bankrupt.

The things they did to advertise the damn console were ridiculous. Remember the 'SEGA' logo on the Arsenal shirt? Yup, they sponsered 50 million pounds for that, and it didn't help at all - people probably thought the Dreamcast was another brand of beer.

The launches? Well, the Australian launch was a disaster - there were plenty Dreamcasts, but there were no games and peripherials, so that was lame. Europe and Japan were delayed, the Online service didn't work properly - only US owners mangaed to get everything perfectly.

The adverts were also awful. Remember the one in the Barbers? Absolutely terrible - it didn't give any in game footage of anything, and SEGA just expected that everyone knew what a Dreamcast was. I certainly did. None of the mainstream lot did.

But at the the end of the day, we all played fantastic games. Soul Calibur, Skies Of Arcadia, Samba De Amigo, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, Metropolis Street Racer - the list is endless. I've always wondered how SEGA would turn out if the Dreamcast was a Mega Drive-like success...

And by the way, Shenmue was very expensive, and made no profit, due to no one buying a Dreamcast.

Edgy wrote:
> Lipe wrote:
> Nope...SEGA went bankrupt so no, they weren't successfull.
>
> night train wrote:
> True they did go bankrupt
>
> Funny, I don't remember that...

Well they weren't making enough money to risk making another console. Is that better?

Hmmmm.

They got into financial trouble anyway.

Lipe wrote:
> Nope...SEGA went bankrupt so no, they weren't successfull.

night train wrote:
> True they did go bankrupt

Funny, I don't remember that...

wasnt Shenmue one of the most expensive games ever made?