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Think of a world in which Sega exist as a huge company, back in 2000 December, the Sega Dreamcast took over the PS2 in sales and resulted in Sony quitting the console world, Sony then cut back on games and decide to make them only rarely, this is a world that fortunately doesnít exist, but try and imagine what the consequences would have been if it did.
At the moment, the biggest computer game console around, the giants of the gaming world, failed to compete against Sega. They ask themselves how could they fail after their highly successful Playstation wiped the floor with the Saturn and rubbed hard it in hard. They knew they would win the battle, Sega got the timing all wrong, they planned to release a console that was after their Saturn has flopped, they didnít have enough publicity around it and people just werenít interested in the console.
Would there have been much difference if any if Sega had won the battle of the 32BIT console, would there have been much difference if they won the battle against the Playstation2 for the 128BIT crown? Would it have changed the way we are playing games right now?
If Sega didnít exist in the first place then what would have been the consequence for it today? They realised some of the best consoles for there time and now what did we give them back in return apart from bankruptcy in the console department? Their Mega Drive was one of the best selling consoles and popular that has ever come across to us, and although the might SNES was excellent it couldnít handle the pressure of Sega.
This brings me onto the subject of Nintendo, Iím not biased towards them or anything and I share everyoneís opinion but are they capable of giving us something new? With the 128BIT console world we have already experienced the PS2 and Dreamcast so what will be new if anything? The Graphics are just as capable on each machine and most games are going multi format, the difference is minimal apart from ofcourse the price and possibilities.
The SNES was crushed by the Mega Drive, the N64 was destroyed by the Playstation, a console that was half of itís power, then there is now the GameCube, so after all of the rest of the consoles everyone already knows what they want to get. And I canít see Nintendo standing much of a chance, I feel because of how well it done originally and the price drop Song wonít have much trouble in the latest battle of the consoles.
For Microsoft this is going to be there first console and this will decide whether or not they will carry on or not, maybe even in a few months time I could re write this and say just what could have happened if Microsoft didnít make the X-Box and PS2 won the console wars. Itís a question that I canít answer and is only left to the customers to decide.
Sega now are slowly stopping the arcade machines and concentrating only on games, the games that some of us love and others hate, the games that you might not be playing right now if it hadnít been for Sega.
Thanks for reading
At the moment, the biggest computer game console around, the giants of the gaming world, failed to compete against Sega. They ask themselves how could they fail after their highly successful Playstation wiped the floor with the Saturn and rubbed hard it in hard. They knew they would win the battle, Sega got the timing all wrong, they planned to release a console that was after their Saturn has flopped, they didnít have enough publicity around it and people just werenít interested in the console.
Would there have been much difference if any if Sega had won the battle of the 32BIT console, would there have been much difference if they won the battle against the Playstation2 for the 128BIT crown? Would it have changed the way we are playing games right now?
If Sega didnít exist in the first place then what would have been the consequence for it today? They realised some of the best consoles for there time and now what did we give them back in return apart from bankruptcy in the console department? Their Mega Drive was one of the best selling consoles and popular that has ever come across to us, and although the might SNES was excellent it couldnít handle the pressure of Sega.
This brings me onto the subject of Nintendo, Iím not biased towards them or anything and I share everyoneís opinion but are they capable of giving us something new? With the 128BIT console world we have already experienced the PS2 and Dreamcast so what will be new if anything? The Graphics are just as capable on each machine and most games are going multi format, the difference is minimal apart from ofcourse the price and possibilities.
The SNES was crushed by the Mega Drive, the N64 was destroyed by the Playstation, a console that was half of itís power, then there is now the GameCube, so after all of the rest of the consoles everyone already knows what they want to get. And I canít see Nintendo standing much of a chance, I feel because of how well it done originally and the price drop Song wonít have much trouble in the latest battle of the consoles.
For Microsoft this is going to be there first console and this will decide whether or not they will carry on or not, maybe even in a few months time I could re write this and say just what could have happened if Microsoft didnít make the X-Box and PS2 won the console wars. Itís a question that I canít answer and is only left to the customers to decide.
Sega now are slowly stopping the arcade machines and concentrating only on games, the games that some of us love and others hate, the games that you might not be playing right now if it hadnít been for Sega.
Thanks for reading
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Ant wrote:
Rubbish. Sony SAVED gaming.
Nonsense.
All the Titles that appeared on PS would have naturally appeared on N64, Saturn.
And the Title's now for PS2 would have been on Dreamcast, Gamecube or even X-Box.
So Rubbish to you.
Rubbish. Sony SAVED gaming.
Nonsense.
All the Titles that appeared on PS would have naturally appeared on N64, Saturn.
And the Title's now for PS2 would have been on Dreamcast, Gamecube or even X-Box.
So Rubbish to you.
There's always PC gaming to fall back on, at least.
WolfHound wrote:
> Don't be silly Turbonutter.
Life would be no different without Sony.
Rubbish. Sony SAVED gaming. If it weren't for Sony, then there would be no competition, and Nintendo would just become lazy.
> Don't be silly Turbonutter.
Life would be no different without Sony.
Rubbish. Sony SAVED gaming. If it weren't for Sony, then there would be no competition, and Nintendo would just become lazy.
Don't be silly Turbonutter.
Life would be no different without Sony.
Life would be no different without Sony.
And gaming wouldn't be anything like what it is now without Sony. Sega was all set to produce another console mainly for 2D gaming. In fact, they had to slam another emergency chip into the Saturn when they heard about the PlayStation. Also, Nintendo would probabl have done the same. Competition wasn't too hot between the two manufacturers, until Sony came along and blew them both out of the water and forced them to get their butts in gear.
I don't think it would've made much diference whoever won at each stage in the 'wars'. For the most part, you'll still have all the third party developers developing the same games for ever so slightly different consoles. Seeing as neither Sega Nintendo or Sony have gone out of business yet, we haven't missed any of their great releases either.
However, the world would obviously be a better place if the N64 had toppled the PSX ;)
However, the world would obviously be a better place if the N64 had toppled the PSX ;)
I like Sega and I like what they have done but I think that we would be in a similar position today if Sega didn't exist.
Think of a world in which Sega exist as a huge company, back in 2000 December, the Sega Dreamcast took over the PS2 in sales and resulted in Sony quitting the console world, Sony then cut back on games and decide to make them only rarely, this is a world that fortunately doesnít exist, but try and imagine what the consequences would have been if it did.
At the moment, the biggest computer game console around, the giants of the gaming world, failed to compete against Sega. They ask themselves how could they fail after their highly successful Playstation wiped the floor with the Saturn and rubbed hard it in hard. They knew they would win the battle, Sega got the timing all wrong, they planned to release a console that was after their Saturn has flopped, they didnít have enough publicity around it and people just werenít interested in the console.
Would there have been much difference if any if Sega had won the battle of the 32BIT console, would there have been much difference if they won the battle against the Playstation2 for the 128BIT crown? Would it have changed the way we are playing games right now?
If Sega didnít exist in the first place then what would have been the consequence for it today? They realised some of the best consoles for there time and now what did we give them back in return apart from bankruptcy in the console department? Their Mega Drive was one of the best selling consoles and popular that has ever come across to us, and although the might SNES was excellent it couldnít handle the pressure of Sega.
This brings me onto the subject of Nintendo, Iím not biased towards them or anything and I share everyoneís opinion but are they capable of giving us something new? With the 128BIT console world we have already experienced the PS2 and Dreamcast so what will be new if anything? The Graphics are just as capable on each machine and most games are going multi format, the difference is minimal apart from ofcourse the price and possibilities.
The SNES was crushed by the Mega Drive, the N64 was destroyed by the Playstation, a console that was half of itís power, then there is now the GameCube, so after all of the rest of the consoles everyone already knows what they want to get. And I canít see Nintendo standing much of a chance, I feel because of how well it done originally and the price drop Song wonít have much trouble in the latest battle of the consoles.
For Microsoft this is going to be there first console and this will decide whether or not they will carry on or not, maybe even in a few months time I could re write this and say just what could have happened if Microsoft didnít make the X-Box and PS2 won the console wars. Itís a question that I canít answer and is only left to the customers to decide.
Sega now are slowly stopping the arcade machines and concentrating only on games, the games that some of us love and others hate, the games that you might not be playing right now if it hadnít been for Sega.
Thanks for reading
At the moment, the biggest computer game console around, the giants of the gaming world, failed to compete against Sega. They ask themselves how could they fail after their highly successful Playstation wiped the floor with the Saturn and rubbed hard it in hard. They knew they would win the battle, Sega got the timing all wrong, they planned to release a console that was after their Saturn has flopped, they didnít have enough publicity around it and people just werenít interested in the console.
Would there have been much difference if any if Sega had won the battle of the 32BIT console, would there have been much difference if they won the battle against the Playstation2 for the 128BIT crown? Would it have changed the way we are playing games right now?
If Sega didnít exist in the first place then what would have been the consequence for it today? They realised some of the best consoles for there time and now what did we give them back in return apart from bankruptcy in the console department? Their Mega Drive was one of the best selling consoles and popular that has ever come across to us, and although the might SNES was excellent it couldnít handle the pressure of Sega.
This brings me onto the subject of Nintendo, Iím not biased towards them or anything and I share everyoneís opinion but are they capable of giving us something new? With the 128BIT console world we have already experienced the PS2 and Dreamcast so what will be new if anything? The Graphics are just as capable on each machine and most games are going multi format, the difference is minimal apart from ofcourse the price and possibilities.
The SNES was crushed by the Mega Drive, the N64 was destroyed by the Playstation, a console that was half of itís power, then there is now the GameCube, so after all of the rest of the consoles everyone already knows what they want to get. And I canít see Nintendo standing much of a chance, I feel because of how well it done originally and the price drop Song wonít have much trouble in the latest battle of the consoles.
For Microsoft this is going to be there first console and this will decide whether or not they will carry on or not, maybe even in a few months time I could re write this and say just what could have happened if Microsoft didnít make the X-Box and PS2 won the console wars. Itís a question that I canít answer and is only left to the customers to decide.
Sega now are slowly stopping the arcade machines and concentrating only on games, the games that some of us love and others hate, the games that you might not be playing right now if it hadnít been for Sega.
Thanks for reading
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