Thursday, 14 June 2012

Sega business

remember the time way back in 1995 when SEGA pulled out of the console manufactering business because they just couldn't compete with other companies bringing out their own consoles like Nintendo bringing out the Nintendo 64 and sony bringing out their debut console the playstation 1. Due to the failing streak that sega had, one of the biggest failures that came across sega's history was the sega saturn, Games that were coming out for it and that were optimized for the different processors were amazing and really well produced but as a console it was a failire, new developers were stumped on how to create a game for this platform. The over priceness of the saturn and the hard to develop games for, it became obvious that sega din't have long left in the business. So for one last attempt at the gaming consoles market they brought out the dreamcast. the dreamcast used  the A9 chip which enables devices such as our smartphones and tablets to have access to the internet. This is the exact same chip that was built into the dreamcast is in our phones today, so you could say that we've got a little bit of a dreamcast in our smartphones.

The reason i'm talking about sega is that Sega might be pulling out of the console business and i'm not talking about what they did 17 years ago, i'm talking about developing for consoles is over and they are now concentrated on developing for tablets and smartphones. If you've not seen in the past few years and the new edition to the sonic 4 episodic franchise that they've brought out Sonic 4 episodes 2 first beven before the consoles. This is a very brave move to be taken by SEGA, and if sega do decide to go through with it, i hope things pan out for them and if they don't, somebody else can take sonic and make my most wanted request and that's make another 16 bit sonic game. think about it, how amazing would it be to see another 16 bit sonic game. I still listen to the music from the genesis to this day.

This isn't news, SEGA hasn't  actually left the console busness yet, this is just based on rumors that i saw during E3.

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