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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.

ty for your time

Well, what they thought they would do was to create a Shenmue Online experience for the PC, and scrap the idea of a third game in case this one didn't sell very well. Shenmue games are extremely expenisve to make, and there are talks of halting the production of alll sequels to come.

Please! No!

SEGA have always been a fantastic games company - but I always considered their consoles and marketing to be a little dubious

I owned both a MegaDrive and SNES, and definitely preferred the SNES - the Saturn was a developers nightmare, was over-priced and (deservedly) blown out of the water by the Playstation - The DreamCast release seemed very badly timed, Playstation was still the name on causal gamers mind (aka the people who keep the games industry running), and the advertising for the console made it appear that wasn’t enough of an upgrade from the Playstation or N64 to warrant splashing the cash on a new system.

I like the games SEGA makes - I'd much rather they were concentrating completely on making fantastic titles, rather than splitting their resources between selling (or not selling) a console and marketing EA style games to the keep their investment afloat.

I think Sh3nmue (Shenmue 3) is due out on the 360 or the PS3.

I've never owned a SEGA. But I wished they were still a force.

I just bought SEGA Sonic Collection and can't put in down.