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Sega CCO reflects on Super Monkey Ball, F-Zero GX, losing to Nintendo
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Smash bro!
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Obviously, Nintendo didn't learn anything from it cause we haven't gotten a new f-zero since.
Also, what is this nonsense of losing to Nintendo? They lost to Sony, not Nintendo.
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Sega lost in 2 hardware wars against Nintendo in 8-bit and 16-bit time, and lost against in 32-bit time to Sony.
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Eeh... maybe the master system, but it was their first home console. The mega drive was a big sucess (kind of a 360/ps3 situation).
If it had gone on as just Sega and Nintendo, i strongly believe Sega would've won. Sony came directly into the Sega space. That is what screwed them (well, and dumb hardware decisions).
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Mega Drive and Genesis sold EXTREMELY well everywhere except Japan. The Mega CD and 32X didn't cause them to fail. That's just dumb. That's like somebody not buying an SNES because the SuperScope exists. But Sega stopped supporting their 16-bit consoles before they should have. Then the Saturn had a surprise launch in the US and that REALLY rubbed a lot of people, stores and publishers the wrong way. HUGE mistake. Also the design of the Saturn made it difficult to develop for because of the President insistence of this, that and the other thing. He was very stubborn and rejected both Sony and Silicon Graphics. Ultimately, his stubbornness killed Sega (and Bernie Stolar didn't help either). Not the Sega CD. Not the 32X (though that certainly didn't help). The 32X was also pushed by said president (Nakayama I think his name is, can't recall at the moment). He insisted on the Saturn's early launch as well. They could have had Sony on their side and if not then, the Ultra 64 tech. But it would have been better than the N64 because Sega wouldn't have tried to make it $200 at launch like Nintendo did so there would have been fewer hardware sacrifices I feel.
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