Comments on: Sega’s Top 10 Biggest Business Mistakes

By: TrueGameHeadz OutRun Online Arcade Review: It's All About The Finish Line | TrueGameHeadz .:Video Game Previews, Reviews, Videos and News For Gamers Everywhere:.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:30:26 +0000

[...] I mentioned before, in my article about Sega’s Top 10 Worst Business Mistakes, one of the things that Sega is known for is screwing up their franchises. However, back in 2003, [...]

By: Lebeau_357

Lebeau_357 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:07:36 +0000

Accurate list! SEGA kept leapin’ before they looked. As a result they fell flat on their faces and is outta the race.

By: Lebeau_357

Lebeau_357 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:59:16 +0000

Man this article hit the nail on the head for me. Sega always had (and I hate using this word) potential. They were always on to something, but never seemed to have the gun cocked when they pulled the trigger. I still play the classics to this day sonic, streets of rage, shinobi, afterburner, etc. However there were those other games that just had you wonderin’ “what the hell were they thinkin!” I feel like all the systems they came out with had great potential, I used to sit and watch my cuz play Panzeer Dragoon on the saturn, virtua fighter, and it was alot of fun…but then there were those game that just made you wonder ” what the herrl are they thinkin”, Even the Dream cast playing streetfighter alpha on that for the first time and seeing all the detail was amazing. I agree poor decisions, poor distribution, poor promotion, and weird ass games put SEGA on it’s ass. It is good to be agressive, but speaking softly and carrying a big stick has worked for Sony and Nintendo.

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:18:42 +0000

[...] enjoy games, but know their history as well. From 2.0’s review of Retro Game Challenge to my Top Ten Sega Mistakes, we aren’t just a bunch of guys who jumped on the Video Game Bandwagon when Playstation was [...]

By: PoisonMushroom.Org - Combing the Net So You Don’t Have To » Blog Archive » Points of Interest - 4/5/09

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:53:20 +0000

[...] after mistake to drive them straight out of the hardware business. So what were their ten worst? True Game Headz gives their point of [...]

By: colin hays

colin hays — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:38:43 +0000

you have GOT to be kidding.I noticed that the dreamcast could NOT burn ALL the disks

By: ChaosAngelZero

ChaosAngelZero — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:37:05 +0000

One point, on the Sega CD and the 32X; it’s wrong.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070718034453/www.segabastard.com/etc/argument.html

On the Dreamcast “not being a true SEGA console” and having “Japanese-appealing games”.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070713183539/www.segabastard.com/features/japan.html

Not to mention that there weren’t any sequels for Golden Axe, Shinobi, OutRun and Streets of Rage on the Saturn either, but there were killer new franchises on it, like Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Fighter, House of the Dead, Virtua Cop, Daytona USA, NiGHTS into Dreams…, Die Hard Arcade, uncut versions of X-Men vs. Street Fighter and MSH vs. SF, Burning Rangers and Clockwork Knight, among many others, and whatever the amount of new franchises that stormed the Saturn, there was at least double that number on the Dreamcast.

Constant innovation was the name of SEGA’s game. You can also find more information here:

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/tiki-index.php?page=SegaBase

By: Unit

Unit — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:21:27 +0000

I’ll repeat, they’d make a better sonic game than what has been done. Period.

Sonic,Need for speed, Tombraider, Crash bandicot, Ratchet and clank, Turok, those have fallen into the “something else” label as you would say. Mario and Zelda have not.

By: DaveDaGamer

DaveDaGamer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:59:16 +0000

Nintendo CAN’T Do it. They’ve been polishing the same franchises for decades. They wouldn’t know what to do with something “new” like a Sonic game. They only know how to keep refining what they’ve already done.

I would hope that after the 26 something odd Mario and 18 odd Zelda’s that hose games would keep getting better.

People hate on Sonic like it’s the same people making the game. It’s not like Mario where you have an overarching vision. You have all these wannabe’s who feel they know what Sonic should be. Sonic the Hedgehog was always a flawed character in the fact that he was always too fast. We loved the first 3 games on Genesis because they were fun. But if you look at it from a game design standpoint, that’s literally as much as you can do with him.

If you move him slightly off course, you get what you have now, frustrating camera issues that lead to painful deaths. Sonic hit his max a long time ago. And for that matter so has Mario and Zelda etc, there’s only so much you can do with these stalwarts before they become “something else”.

By: Kogen

Kogen — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:46:49 +0000

Stupid list.