Basically once the North American crash happened Nintendo wanted to market it as a toy. ROB and the closed console look were a Trojan horse tactic.

Lol how? These days the only people I know that have a Wii U are “core gamers.” Regardless of that though, unless the NX is a Wii U/3DS hybrid, it will officially kick off a new console generation. Unless Microsoft bows out of the race or the Xbox One stops being doubled over by the PS4 multiple times over in sales,…

The last generation was interrupted after 6 years. I think Nintendo will release a new platform no later than 2017 which will be only a 4 year gap.

The Sega CD wasn’t a mess. The software wasn’t great but that wasn’t the hardwares fault. Sega didn’t rush the thing, they didn’t develop it to be behind the times like the Saturn or to try to compete with their own hardware like the 32X. They foolishly tried to push FMV games but that wasn’t to hide a flaw in the…

Probably because they are based on interviews (or straight up just the interviews themselves) from people who were part of it all. I think you’re really disrespecting the impact NEC had on things. Sega did fear Nintendo but they mainly had issues sticking with a plan. Which is why this conversation started in the…

What does a YouTube video by some random guy prove? I’ve educated myself by buying and reading books like Mega Drive: Collected Works and Console Wars as well as reading interviews by Michael Katz, Al Nielsen, Tom Kalinske, Masami Ishikawa and Hayao Nakayama.

You have to be trolling, this is great. How well a console performs or not doesn’t determine what it was created to compete with. Using years (that I already know) that consoles were released doesn’t make your argument sound any less silly. So according to your "logic," Sega recreated the Genesis then when they made…

Lol it wasn’t built to compete with the NES.. the Master system was. Those ads came from the Turbo Grafx 16 not being a threat in the US.. you obviously go after your competition and that was the NES.

“Clearly,” Sega viewed the Mega Drive well suited to do battle with Nintendo. If the Sega CD wasn’t viewed as a luxury item, it would’ve had Shinobi, Streets of Rage, main Sonic games etc and not mostly ports of Genesis and PC games.

Where are you getting this from? The Sega CD was made to compete with the PC Engine CD which came out a full 2 years prior to the Super Famicom (and came out the same month as the Mega Drive). They didn’t see SNES and think “let’s start working on a CD add-on.” They were probably developing the Sega CD before they…

Everyone is always worried about their competition (See: Sony and Microsoft last gen with Move and Kinect).

Even though I agree with you on 2K sports, it still didn’t help them not to have Madden and co in the lineup.

Yeah I know the history with the Saturn. The Sega CD didn’t “have to” exist but it’s existence wasn’t an issue. It was obvious it was a luxury add-on that wasn’t a must to enjoy Sega’s 16 bit experience. The 32X though was marketed as a next generation machine that could extend the life of the Genesis, therefore…

Those? I maintain that the Sega CD wasn’t a problem and I’m glad it existed.

Publishers hardly supported the Dreamcast before piracy was even a real issue. EA never made a game for it... Pretty much if you take away Capcoms arcade ports, the best games are mostly 1st party.

The Sega CD was fine. The 32X though was the beginning of the end.

No, you’re certainly wrong about the PS2 killing the Dreamcast. One of the main reasons the PS2 even saw its huge success was it’s predecessors large success. Had Sega not wasted time, money and resources on the 32X and botched the Saturn’s North American release (which led huge retailers to carry little if any Sega…

“not even the Wii!”

Got in after trying for about 30 min and played for about 2 hours before I got kicked. Went out for a bit then came back and got back on and checked out Birdie and Cammy before it kicked me again.

“This whole console generation is the shameless cash grab generation.”