It's sad the Dreamcast went downhill & Sega had to cancel it. Although many people give different reasons, I wonder which one (or three) are the correct ones for the Dreamcast's demise?
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It's sad the Dreamcast went downhill & Sega had to cancel it. Although many people give different reasons, I wonder which one (or three) are the correct ones for the Dreamcast's demise?
I'd say bad management dealt the worst blow, but the massive piracy had to have a lot to do with it. All possible by no copy protection, and the NeoGeo-DC connectivity ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hardc0regamer
Looks like a tour by Eidolons Inn turned up this story about Sega. So I got a chance to see that evil Bernie Stolar (GGrrrrrrrrrrr burns him in effigy) and there's another cool article on the game industry, including the guy behind D, Kenji Eno. (In German). Some good news there.
Ahhhhh, look it's:
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-33411/miyamoto.jpg
Shigeru Miyamoto
He looks ohh 17....maybe not even that old.
The best story of Seg's demise can be found at this page, this second page and "the final blow". Now I know why they went down...that motivated me to Google the story some more. btw, anyone wanting to hunt down Bernie Stolar and basically pummel his brains in (OK...i'll be a little less hateful...how about burn down his house?) will find no love in the Sega community for him. Or Sony.
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/P-TomKalinske.jpg http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase/P-BernieStolar.jpgQuote:
Replacing Kalinske as Sega of America president would be one Bernie Stolar, one of the oldest and most controversial executives in the videogame industry and fresh from a royal row with former employer Sony.
Tony Kalinske=good guy
Bernie Stolar=malignant tumor of the video game industry
What a cockroach. Sega never should have dumped Tom Kalinske, the creator of the ad campaign that made Sonic the Hedgehog a household name. Some background on Tom can be found here. I was almost shocked to see that Sega once had 50% of the videogame market. That's much more than they had vs. Nintendo w/the Master System. Bernie Stolar is just a friggin ratboy. His face just screams "I'm a crooked New Yorker fishin' your back pocket".
( :puke: Bernie Stolar)
http://www.eidolons-inn.net/segabase...NetLink(U).gif The Saturn, bad marketing & little third-party support
but oh, they didn't seem to mention enough about piracy in the stories about the Dreamcast. Even with that going around, I think that the widespread piracy wouldn't matter had they sold enough systems to people. Think about this: had piracy been so easy, why didn't the PlayStation bankrupt Sony? (modchips are not a very good detterent to piracy, just a little). From the standpoint of someone who has been burning CDR's since 1992, I can say that the PlayStation proved not much more of a challenge than the Dreamcast. Modchip or no modchip, it was Sega's failure to sell enough systems that ultimately doomed the Dreamcast. Sega of Japan had a huge part to play in how things turned out, and when you can't even win in your home market, that says too much about Sega. Too bad...their great system will live on.
In emulation.
:)
~fini
Sources:
Sega-Saturn.com
Eidolon's Inn
EmuGaming
TheMagicBox
Sega of Japan & Sega of Europe
Sega-16
Alright, enough is enough. I'm going to get a TV and then get a Dreamcast =O
After that EP will not be updated for a few years =P.
That would be the best thing you could do in years, to get a DC, not the no more updates in EP :P
Wow, we went from games to fall of a system, lol.
Bringing back this thread cause I realized in looking for games for the DC that I am oblivious to good Imports (non-RPG as I stated in the at post of the thread). I do know that there are good ones but I wouldn't know where to begin? And good action or platformers?
I Have Fire Pro and Ikagrui (spell check, I know) but otherwise I don't have a clue and can't find any places to start.
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