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Wurm wrote:
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>>>Sure Sega used to be a kickass company back in the early genny days, and
>>>they are still releasing solid games across all consoles, but the DC was
>>>dead almost as soon as it got out of the gates
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>>They couldn't manufacture enough when it launched in Japan, and in America
>>it was the biggest console launch ever.
>
> And yet when it released I never heard a damn thing about it, never noticed
> it for sale at Zellers or Walmart up here in Canada. I only even learned it
> existed a year after it came out, never saw a TV commercial for it, etc etc
> etc.
>
Were you looking in the right places? In Europe it was quite well
advertised, they sponsored the kit of a Premier League football side and
so on. It's just that in my, and many others opinion, the advertising
was handled so, so badly and did little to make the general public think
it was much different from the Playstation they already had.
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> I know im in the minority in this NG, but im way in the majority for gamers
> for this. When I used my DC, I must have downloaded 75 percent of the games
> out there for the system, just to see what there was available (no one in my
> area carried anything for the DC that was resonably priced, up until a year
> ago, local Walmarts were still asking 59.99$ for Deep Fighter), almost each
> game I downloaded lasted about half an hour in my DC till I threw it out.
> The only games that I found worth playing (and therefore purchased, im not a
> pirate....) were Virtua Tennis (the first one, hated the sequel),
> SoulCalibur, and I even picked up Toy Story 2 as I found it a really fun
> little platformer. I bought Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2 blind, assuming
> I'd love them (big jap-RPG fan) and they are among two of the worst jap-RPGs
> I've ever played.
You downloaded 75 percent of the games, but you're not a pirate. You
evidently have a 'net connection (to download said games), the greatest
repository out there of what's what in the gaming world, but you need to
pirate all the games to see whats out there? Similarly, you bought SoA
and G2 blind despite having the ability to either pirate them, or
quickly and easily read a review? Everything you say is laced with
contradictions, which doesn't do the greatest job of helping your argument.
> So, as wierd as it may sound, out of most of their library
> I literraly found nothing worth while to play, and considering the demise of
> the system, I'm definetly not the only one who felt this way. And dont go
> and blame its demise on pirating or anything silly like that, the PSx did
> just fine and that had far more pirating going on.
>
Right, so you found nothing worthwhile to play out of most of the games.
So why are you saying Sega should keep "doing what it does best, make
games"? Make up your mind.
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