/vr/ - Retro Games

Arcade division carried and tripped backwards into sonic and rode that success into a half dozen failures until they got bought out by a gambling company

>>10365327
I still prefer them over Atari, Sony, and Nintendo.

>>10365347
>I am still retarded

You’d think a company founded by American Jewish businessmen would be more successful. What went wrong? Why did they fail so hard in such an embarrassing fashion?

>>10365347
same, based taste

>>10365347
based sonic autist

>>10365357
why would that guarantee them success? if it did Commodore should still be in business.

>>10365327
Flash in a pan for the home console division. Joke company. Perennial losers

SEGA CD failed
32x failed
Game Gear failed
Saturn failed
Dreamcast failed

>>10365327
that ain't sony mate!!
>promote your console towards older audience
>promote the games as mature games
>most games have heavy censorship
>censorship gets worse even nintendo games are less censored then sony games.
sega on the other hand delivered what they promise a mature console for older audience.
all their games don't have censorship.

>>10365369
Jack sold the company at their absolute peak. He ripened the fruit and harvested at the right time.
David Rosen was on the SEGA board up until the Dreamcast era

>>10365375
nahh the only reason sony won was piracy since they got money from consoles sales not from licenses like nintendo and sega.
>ask sony for an SDK
>they send you one for free and will search a publisher for you if your game is good.
>no need to pay licenses to them.

>the company that had better games only beat the company that had released two joke add-ons that alienated their user base because of piracy
Could you cope any harder?

depends on your perspective
they couldn't develop a decent game in more than thirty years
nearly every console of theirs after the megadrive was a royal fuckup
yet they are still in business
they only incompetent at making games

>>10365380
you lost, auster

>>10365420
They are successful today not because of their first party games. Sonic had consistently underperformed prior to the first movie coming out. Their parent company, Sammy, makes money hand over fist from pachinko/slots. They also own multiple entertainment studios, amusement parks, and so on. They own Atlus which had their first mega hit with Persona 5 (mainline SMT games always underperform)

>>10365436
>mainline SMT games always underperform
Doubtful. The last SMT game that wasn't a portable game was Nocturne. There's no way those games don't make good profit.

>>10365451
IV only sold 600k copies
V just barley broke a million
A modest success, but certainly not a mega hit game for today’s standards.

>>10365469
There's no chance they expect them to be "triple A" megahits. They are portable games aimed at serious RPG fans.

At least they're better than Atari.

>>10365327
I have no idea, they have so many fantastic IPs... really wish they hadn't stopped making consoles, but they dropped the ball way too often, though I'm still grateful for everything they gave us back then, Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn, Dreamcast... so much good stuff!

They kept making questionable design decisions with their consoles, only the Dreamcast had no egregious mistakes.

>>10365420
>they only incompetent at making games
What a lot of people don't internalize is that Sega was always an arcade game company that broke into the console market briefly. Even today, a lot of the most profitable arcade games in Japan are still produced by Sega.

Nigtendo has been coasting on pokemon and kids toys for 25 years. The N64 and GameCube were also-rans, Wii was a gimmick wiiu an absolute failure. GBA/DS/switch is their main platform 9ver this period.

>>10365451
>The last SMT game that wasn't a portable was nocturne.
do you live on a cave mate?
they have released lot of SMT titles.
>>10365469
still better then any game by today standards.

also sega is a kabuki gaisha (stocks corporation) their main isn't making games,they have hotels,resorts,and game publishing along more stuff,they are as big as nintendo but they won't return to making game consoles (isekai ojii-san is sponsored by sega)

>>10365327
So incompetent they made a world famous brand that lasted for decades and paid off numerous homes, cars, college funds, and retirements for the people that worked there their whole lives.
What a failure!

>>10365327
bold words on SegaGAF, the board

>>10365887
Sneed about it more

>>10365887
>imagine thinking /vr/ isn't a tendie board

Megadrive is recognized as the archetypical 16-bit video games console, and retro demakes universally ape its aesthetic.

>>10365887
>Snoys still digging up their failed self-victimizing shitpost material from a decade ago

>are
>>>/v/

>>10365723
>they have so many fantastic IPs
Such as what?

>Cancel Sega Ages because it didn't sell enough
>Release shitty ass Genesis compilation with the Switch version having horrendous input lag and Sega stating it won't fix it
>Release Sonic Origins, then releases it again making consumers have to pay twice for it
>Refuses to reissue any arcade games outside of putting them in RGG games and Mega Drive minis because people will pay more for them
What the fuck is up with them

>>10365375
>Game Gear failed
I wouldn't say it failed (10.62 million sold), but the GG didn't have any longevity because Sega was focused more on downports of Master System and Genesis games ("play it on the go!") than doing unique GG titles that could be attractive to consumers in the long run. People remember the Gameboy now for its exclusives like Pokemon and Link's Awakening, not for the myriad of downports third parties released for it.

>>10365327
>reasons why failed
Just enjoy the bloody games moron. They left plenty of ENJOYABLE GAMES behind to play.

>>10367661
Games I can't play because Sega refuses to reissue many of them outside of the stupid ass mini console

>>10365327
Nintendo made virtual boy and N64 yet they are never called incompetent.

>>10365375
Apart from gamegear they were all better consoles than their competition. I would put Saturn on par with psx.

>>10367689
>32x was better than its competitors
Typical sega cultist

>>10367683
But Nintendo is still around and doing really well. The same cannot be said of SEGA.

>>10367689
game gear is definitely better than game boy, only people who say otherwise don't know what they're talking about.

>>10365887
>microsharts building a victim complex again

>>10367735
Better than 64dd which you only see praise for on this board.

>>10367758
Sometimes good products die and it's outside of their control.

>>10367763
>game gear is better
>requires you to own a battery factory

>>10365357
Jews are good with business, that makes it even stranger

>>10367807
>Sometimes good products die and it's outside of their control.
Sure, but SEGA was not one of them.

>>10367807
holy freakin BASED ! can't be more agreed

I always make the parallels between SEGA and WCW because their history is very similar.

the wrong guys won but they were more commercial so... sadly that's how it works

>>10367810
oh no

>>10367683
Virtual boy sucked but the N64 sold as much as the megadrive, so we should call the megadrive a failure to?