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If not, then it's probably because you can't see past the end of your own noses!!
Sega has officially signed a publishing deal with SCEE, signalling the end for Sega in Europe and the rise of SCEE to be the second biggest software publisher in Europe (behind EA of course!!). Did you think that your beloved Sega would hold your hand through the final year of the DC and nurture you into making a stable choice for the future of your gameplaying?? then you would have been sorely mistaken, Sega is now no longer a force in Europe, and where Sega once stood, Sony is standing even bigger. All you can do is hope and pray that the little blue munster that they call Sonic hits a European console. Gamecube fans may even see one of their top titles, Super Smash Bros. Melee canned for a European release if the reported appearence of Sonic and chums proves to be true, as the new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games. Whether this also means Sonic appearances in other Sega games is yet to be disclosed but a real possibility!! This could also see the rumoured Gamecube and Xbox games Sega are producing be published by Sony in Europe, giving Sony an even bigger strangle-hold on the European market.
Maybe this isn't true, maybe the deal just covers games to be released on the PS2, but this has to be one of the scariest things anyone opposed to Sony has heard for a long time. The PS2 is just beginning to take off in Europe with Sony's AAA titles finally hitting our shores, and these will be bolstered for definate by Virtua Fighter 4, Ecco the Dolphin, Ferrari F-355, two Space Channel 5 games and a currently secret game going by the name K-Project. Excited, well you should be, also rumoured to be hitting the PS2 before next summer is an exclusive Sonic game!!
Only time will tell, but Sega and Sony in the same boat, can only be good for us PS2 owners, that's for sure!!
Sega has officially signed a publishing deal with SCEE, signalling the end for Sega in Europe and the rise of SCEE to be the second biggest software publisher in Europe (behind EA of course!!). Did you think that your beloved Sega would hold your hand through the final year of the DC and nurture you into making a stable choice for the future of your gameplaying?? then you would have been sorely mistaken, Sega is now no longer a force in Europe, and where Sega once stood, Sony is standing even bigger. All you can do is hope and pray that the little blue munster that they call Sonic hits a European console. Gamecube fans may even see one of their top titles, Super Smash Bros. Melee canned for a European release if the reported appearence of Sonic and chums proves to be true, as the new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games. Whether this also means Sonic appearances in other Sega games is yet to be disclosed but a real possibility!! This could also see the rumoured Gamecube and Xbox games Sega are producing be published by Sony in Europe, giving Sony an even bigger strangle-hold on the European market.
Maybe this isn't true, maybe the deal just covers games to be released on the PS2, but this has to be one of the scariest things anyone opposed to Sony has heard for a long time. The PS2 is just beginning to take off in Europe with Sony's AAA titles finally hitting our shores, and these will be bolstered for definate by Virtua Fighter 4, Ecco the Dolphin, Ferrari F-355, two Space Channel 5 games and a currently secret game going by the name K-Project. Excited, well you should be, also rumoured to be hitting the PS2 before next summer is an exclusive Sonic game!!
Only time will tell, but Sega and Sony in the same boat, can only be good for us PS2 owners, that's for sure!!
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I've had grat times with Sega and DC. Sega will grow back, behind Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's back. By making games, with more people buying them there'll get bigger, and bigger, and bigger. Until they can afford to make another console. DC always had it's disadvantages by being the 1st Next Genration console.
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Bonus wrote:
"new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games."
I can tell you now that will never happen, but where did you get the information from anyway?
"new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games."
I can tell you now that will never happen, but where did you get the information from anyway?
These games will still be able to be released in Japan and America though, their deal is with SCEE, wh are the 2nd biggest publisher in Europe now, so that would give them a massive market!!
Thats a bit stupid. Sega are aiming to be the worlds biggest software developer. They have to achieve this or they will have even more egg on their faces.
I doubt Sega would do anything to reduce the chances of this. Especially something as serious as effectively allowing their games to come out on only the PS2.
If Sega want to be the leading softco, then they will need their games to be released on all three consoles, and the GBA. If part of their deal is for Sony to own the rights to Sega games and possibly characters well, then Sega can't release their games on other platforms.
Sega have already signed deals with Microsoft and Nintendo, they wouldn't do anything to put this into jepardy.
I doubt Sega would do anything to reduce the chances of this. Especially something as serious as effectively allowing their games to come out on only the PS2.
If Sega want to be the leading softco, then they will need their games to be released on all three consoles, and the GBA. If part of their deal is for Sony to own the rights to Sega games and possibly characters well, then Sega can't release their games on other platforms.
Sega have already signed deals with Microsoft and Nintendo, they wouldn't do anything to put this into jepardy.
If not, then it's probably because you can't see past the end of your own noses!!
Sega has officially signed a publishing deal with SCEE, signalling the end for Sega in Europe and the rise of SCEE to be the second biggest software publisher in Europe (behind EA of course!!). Did you think that your beloved Sega would hold your hand through the final year of the DC and nurture you into making a stable choice for the future of your gameplaying?? then you would have been sorely mistaken, Sega is now no longer a force in Europe, and where Sega once stood, Sony is standing even bigger. All you can do is hope and pray that the little blue munster that they call Sonic hits a European console. Gamecube fans may even see one of their top titles, Super Smash Bros. Melee canned for a European release if the reported appearence of Sonic and chums proves to be true, as the new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games. Whether this also means Sonic appearances in other Sega games is yet to be disclosed but a real possibility!! This could also see the rumoured Gamecube and Xbox games Sega are producing be published by Sony in Europe, giving Sony an even bigger strangle-hold on the European market.
Maybe this isn't true, maybe the deal just covers games to be released on the PS2, but this has to be one of the scariest things anyone opposed to Sony has heard for a long time. The PS2 is just beginning to take off in Europe with Sony's AAA titles finally hitting our shores, and these will be bolstered for definate by Virtua Fighter 4, Ecco the Dolphin, Ferrari F-355, two Space Channel 5 games and a currently secret game going by the name K-Project. Excited, well you should be, also rumoured to be hitting the PS2 before next summer is an exclusive Sonic game!!
Only time will tell, but Sega and Sony in the same boat, can only be good for us PS2 owners, that's for sure!!
Sega has officially signed a publishing deal with SCEE, signalling the end for Sega in Europe and the rise of SCEE to be the second biggest software publisher in Europe (behind EA of course!!). Did you think that your beloved Sega would hold your hand through the final year of the DC and nurture you into making a stable choice for the future of your gameplaying?? then you would have been sorely mistaken, Sega is now no longer a force in Europe, and where Sega once stood, Sony is standing even bigger. All you can do is hope and pray that the little blue munster that they call Sonic hits a European console. Gamecube fans may even see one of their top titles, Super Smash Bros. Melee canned for a European release if the reported appearence of Sonic and chums proves to be true, as the new deal with Sony is rumoured to include the rights to Sonic games. Whether this also means Sonic appearances in other Sega games is yet to be disclosed but a real possibility!! This could also see the rumoured Gamecube and Xbox games Sega are producing be published by Sony in Europe, giving Sony an even bigger strangle-hold on the European market.
Maybe this isn't true, maybe the deal just covers games to be released on the PS2, but this has to be one of the scariest things anyone opposed to Sony has heard for a long time. The PS2 is just beginning to take off in Europe with Sony's AAA titles finally hitting our shores, and these will be bolstered for definate by Virtua Fighter 4, Ecco the Dolphin, Ferrari F-355, two Space Channel 5 games and a currently secret game going by the name K-Project. Excited, well you should be, also rumoured to be hitting the PS2 before next summer is an exclusive Sonic game!!
Only time will tell, but Sega and Sony in the same boat, can only be good for us PS2 owners, that's for sure!!
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