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Author Re: short history of Sega Dreamcast's birth
NM Sees

2007-01-30, 7:48 pm

Maybe it's just me, but this guy reds like Sony fan-boy.
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Air Raid wrote:
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> Dreamcast is a system born out of Sega's darkest hour, a do-or-die
> machine which will decide whether the company stays in the hardware
> business. Its precursor, the 32bit Sega Saturn, had been wi
> 1994 launch was too proceed. Instead, Sega added yet another processor
> to an already over-complicated design. In terms of raw power, the new
> The Saturn debacle would cost the jobs of Sega's American and Japanese
> bosses, beside reducing its US empire to a ruin running up losses of
> $167 million in 1997. For any replacement machine the lessons were
> clear: a single format, complete user-friendliness for developers and
> a new brand -- so low had sunk the once mighty Sega name.
>

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> Written By: Stuart Wynne
>
> http://www.tinyurl.com/c5rk7

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