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I find lots of people in the forums (including me) saying that they'd love to see Sega release another console- but is that really a good thing?
Admittedly, Sonic on a Sega hardware product would bring back the memories, but look at the plus points that exist when Sega are 3rd Party:
1) They can target games at multiple audiences. This lets more people buy their games, and creates more money for sega which means that they can...
2) Make better games! As I was saying in another topic, there are some 100 million games players out there... only 6 million of these have Sega's console and this severely limits the number of people able to buy Sega games. If they could target any console/consoles then they could sell up to 10 times the number of games that they are now!
3) More flexibility. Say that the Xbox flops (unlikely, but u get the idea)... then sega still have the option to transfer interest to other consoles. As it is, Sega are putting games on all 4 major consoles (DC, Ps2, GC, Xbox)... and they can be more versatile as a company this way.
4) Games will use the best of both worlds. When Sega made their own hardware they could do it in a way that they wanted. But there are so many problems with this... for example, online facilities! Wouldn't it be better if Naka-san came along in 5 years to make PSO 2... looked at the console with the best online features, and then made games for this console? Alternatively, he might want to release Sonic on every single consoles out to allow a HUGE market for it!
Anyway, those are just my views. As I've said, Sega are the biggest 3rd party developer in existance... Sega is made of 9 divisions, each of which is over twice the size of normal developers! It's huge, and has leading games in every genre... it simply cannot go wrong as a 3rd party company!
Sonic
Admittedly, Sonic on a Sega hardware product would bring back the memories, but look at the plus points that exist when Sega are 3rd Party:
1) They can target games at multiple audiences. This lets more people buy their games, and creates more money for sega which means that they can...
2) Make better games! As I was saying in another topic, there are some 100 million games players out there... only 6 million of these have Sega's console and this severely limits the number of people able to buy Sega games. If they could target any console/consoles then they could sell up to 10 times the number of games that they are now!
3) More flexibility. Say that the Xbox flops (unlikely, but u get the idea)... then sega still have the option to transfer interest to other consoles. As it is, Sega are putting games on all 4 major consoles (DC, Ps2, GC, Xbox)... and they can be more versatile as a company this way.
4) Games will use the best of both worlds. When Sega made their own hardware they could do it in a way that they wanted. But there are so many problems with this... for example, online facilities! Wouldn't it be better if Naka-san came along in 5 years to make PSO 2... looked at the console with the best online features, and then made games for this console? Alternatively, he might want to release Sonic on every single consoles out to allow a HUGE market for it!
Anyway, those are just my views. As I've said, Sega are the biggest 3rd party developer in existance... Sega is made of 9 divisions, each of which is over twice the size of normal developers! It's huge, and has leading games in every genre... it simply cannot go wrong as a 3rd party company!
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It would be interesting to see what SEGA would bring out but if they did I would wait maybe 3-4 yrs!
Time_Warp wrote:
> Sega's software service wil be a great aid to the other consoles in
> the next two years.
The only thing that I would HATE to see is if Sega become 2nd party games makers... if that were to happen they would lose both their name, and all the advantages shown in my post below. Even if this company were Nintendo... I'd still rather have Sega being independant.
Sonic
> Sega's software service wil be a great aid to the other consoles in
> the next two years.
The only thing that I would HATE to see is if Sega become 2nd party games makers... if that were to happen they would lose both their name, and all the advantages shown in my post below. Even if this company were Nintendo... I'd still rather have Sega being independant.
Sonic
I find lots of people in the forums (including me) saying that they'd love to see Sega release another console- but is that really a good thing?
Admittedly, Sonic on a Sega hardware product would bring back the memories, but look at the plus points that exist when Sega are 3rd Party:
1) They can target games at multiple audiences. This lets more people buy their games, and creates more money for sega which means that they can...
2) Make better games! As I was saying in another topic, there are some 100 million games players out there... only 6 million of these have Sega's console and this severely limits the number of people able to buy Sega games. If they could target any console/consoles then they could sell up to 10 times the number of games that they are now!
3) More flexibility. Say that the Xbox flops (unlikely, but u get the idea)... then sega still have the option to transfer interest to other consoles. As it is, Sega are putting games on all 4 major consoles (DC, Ps2, GC, Xbox)... and they can be more versatile as a company this way.
4) Games will use the best of both worlds. When Sega made their own hardware they could do it in a way that they wanted. But there are so many problems with this... for example, online facilities! Wouldn't it be better if Naka-san came along in 5 years to make PSO 2... looked at the console with the best online features, and then made games for this console? Alternatively, he might want to release Sonic on every single consoles out to allow a HUGE market for it!
Anyway, those are just my views. As I've said, Sega are the biggest 3rd party developer in existance... Sega is made of 9 divisions, each of which is over twice the size of normal developers! It's huge, and has leading games in every genre... it simply cannot go wrong as a 3rd party company!
Sonic
Admittedly, Sonic on a Sega hardware product would bring back the memories, but look at the plus points that exist when Sega are 3rd Party:
1) They can target games at multiple audiences. This lets more people buy their games, and creates more money for sega which means that they can...
2) Make better games! As I was saying in another topic, there are some 100 million games players out there... only 6 million of these have Sega's console and this severely limits the number of people able to buy Sega games. If they could target any console/consoles then they could sell up to 10 times the number of games that they are now!
3) More flexibility. Say that the Xbox flops (unlikely, but u get the idea)... then sega still have the option to transfer interest to other consoles. As it is, Sega are putting games on all 4 major consoles (DC, Ps2, GC, Xbox)... and they can be more versatile as a company this way.
4) Games will use the best of both worlds. When Sega made their own hardware they could do it in a way that they wanted. But there are so many problems with this... for example, online facilities! Wouldn't it be better if Naka-san came along in 5 years to make PSO 2... looked at the console with the best online features, and then made games for this console? Alternatively, he might want to release Sonic on every single consoles out to allow a HUGE market for it!
Anyway, those are just my views. As I've said, Sega are the biggest 3rd party developer in existance... Sega is made of 9 divisions, each of which is over twice the size of normal developers! It's huge, and has leading games in every genre... it simply cannot go wrong as a 3rd party company!
Sonic
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