DS: ''Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has captured the Wii U top spot for the first time since release.''
"The company was unable to focus enough on its main hope"
Nope. Going back to the 32X as the reason Sega lost that generation doesn't go back far enough before the Saturn.
Sega executives need to blame themselves as to why Sega lost that generation. Not Saturn. Not 32X. Not Sega CD. Nope. Executives were the reason why. It wasn't the hardware. Those devices were either dropped early or released to soon resulting in a developer backlash the hurt the game catalog. They really shouldn't have been made at all because they should have planned their next move more carefully. It has nothing to do with the devices. Poor leadership decisions and lack of unity within the company are what happened.
Love how blame is always shifted away from what is the truth. Writing a book placing the blame on the 32X isn't the truth.
I am pretty sure there are documentaries (Youtube) around it which highlights these points. I had Sega Mega drive and NES growing up but that's about it. I didn't even know there was a war going on between these companies but I do remember thinking why I can't play Sonic cartridge on Nintendo or Mario on Sega :D
I had the Genesis and the Saturn, also had the SNES and 64, I never got a Dreamcast for some reason, but I never saw one in the stores either.
If you were one of those lucky kids who had access to the Sega Channel in the mid-1990s, you legitimately have bragging rights as one of the coolest kids ever.
This is real. I feel old as dirt but my cousin had this and they had all the games on there. You connected the coaxial (that cable that screws into your modern modem and the wall) to a cartridge and you can pick so many games and it was extremely fast. This was so ahead of its time and we loved it. These kids do not realize how old the internet really is and how old the connections were. Even high speed internet.
We didn't have it bought my uncle did. The same uncle I borrowed everything game wise from as a kid. It was pretty dope.
Good video. I remember it but didn’t ever get to experience it. That’s what i loved about Sega, they were trying to always think outside of the box. The service was way ahead of its time, too bad the marketing for it wasn’t as strong, plus gaming in the 90s was still seen as nerdy so there wasn’t a huge interest in a service like that. To bad because it looked great.
Yeah I remember gaming being a thing for nerds on the 90s but it was seemingly as popular as it is today I was a kid at the time but it was universal every single kid at least the boys seemed to have a system
It was big, but not as big as it is today. A lot of people make a living just talking about games now a days. Plus your right about woman, their wasn’t a lot of them back then.
It's crazy really sega went from the mega modem (tele genisis) failing and a year later was ready to try online connectivity again with the sega channel.
It's both amazing and eye opening to the sega experience at the time I was a mega drive player with the 32x and mega cd (brought when they were at run out) and I think that had sega just kept working within the confines of the available base hardware the user base may have stuck with them through to the Saturn and Dreamcast but I remember feeling a bit burnt out by segas lack of commitment and jumping over to a PlayStation instead of a Saturn I don't think I'm alone there.
Crazy thing is I'm getting that same 32x feeling from my psVR2 actually a really good and fun peice of hardware screaming out for more quality games
TheGamer recently spoke with lead editor Josh Malone and senior translator Dan Sunstrum about their work localising the Like a Dragon series at Sega.
Well that's good news. A friend of mine actually gave me the points to download this game not long ago. It's no Mario Kart, but it was pretty fun; much better than its predecessor.
I'm thinking of buying this digitally. It seems really cool.
My wife and I play sonic all the time. It's blast especially when playing 5 player splitscreen
well good for sonic, this racer looks very fun, i will have to try the demo.
good game, worth buying