Geez, what a Moore-on

[Jess Ragan]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/16/microsof...mcasts-the-ps3/

 

"The Playstation 3 is going to be the next Dreamcast. I should know, because I led that system to ruin MYSELF!"

 

What is it about former Sega employees that makes them such assholes, anyway? Is it something in the water? This guy shouldn't be invoking the memory of the Dreamcast to bash other game systems, because he was the one who sabotaged it in the FIRST PLACE!!!

 

JR

[Flojomojo]

You don't really think it's that simple, do you? It's not like Peter Moore single-handedly killed the Dreamcast. Sony took care of that for him, in much the same way as they're killing the Playstation 3 themselves! Besides, all these executives like to take cheap shots at the competition.

 

The other major factor in the Dreamcast's "failure" would be the game fans who didn't purchase one of these great systems.

 

I feel as though the machine got a good run, despite its relatively short life.

[Shannon]

Peter Moore scares me.... Multiple SKU's anyone?

 

He says Microsoft’s strategy is about choice, “I stick by what we’ve done. Everybody criticizes but believe me, we need to look forward three years from now when the pricing really becomes important. Quite frankly PS2 has proven to us, that if you get a product with enough games at the right price, it becomes very valuable. Also I have a global business and I have a business that I have to worry about in emerging markets where price is important. I’ve got places like central Europe where pricing is important. The only people who are confused are the people who don’t buy it.”

 

He says delivering different options is a must. “This is a world where high-speed broadband has become ubiquitous, where people’s tastes and their personalization differ from one another in ways that weren’t imagined ten years ago. I know my strategy for the next five years, where this thing’s going to go, what my pricing strategy is, what my cost reduction strategy is, how I position that in the future to the consumer, there’s a plan there. This is not stuff we wake up on a Monday and say ‘hmm, let’s do this’. It really is a long term strategic plan. The Elite is obviously something we’ve been working on that for a long time.”

 

So does this signal yet more iterations of Xbox 360? “If so I probably couldn’t tell you,” he says. “This is a brave new world. This is a world of personalization of the experience and this is not hundreds of millions of cookie cutter homes that simply have a TV that connect to a box. This is a very different world we live in and it’s essential to have product offerings that are attractive to different consumers.”

[2600Lives]

Love the Dreamcast, but, seriously, RPGs had become mainstream and not just a niche market anymore, and Sega, known for AWESOME RPGs on the Genesis and Saturn totally crapped on the DC in terms of this genre of game. I've always thought that was a major nail in the DC's coffin, as Sega continued to shove shitty sports game after shitty sports game in our faces while completely ignoring one of THE most important gaming genres.

 

This guy brags about having no business sense whatsoever? Wow. I must be getting old. Time was nobody actually bragged about their FAILINGS...

[Jess Ragan]

I always thought the Genesis was rather RPG deficient, myself. Aside from Phantasy Star and Landstalker, what else did it have that was of any real value? I guess you could add Crusader of Centy to the list, but even that felt like a second-rate knock-off of The Legend of Zelda, with a tongue-in-cheek localization that was ahead of its time. Most of the other RPGs on the system were third-party duds like Ys III, Sorceror's Kingdom, and Faery Tale Kingdom... those were nothing compared to the masterpieces Square was offering on the Super NES.

 

JR

[Gregory DG]

"The Playstation 3 is going to be the next Dreamcast. I should know, because I led that system to ruin MYSELF!"

 

What is it about former Sega employees that makes them such assholes, anyway?

Sounds like a joking self-depricating comment to me.

[MCHufnagel]

Really, compared to the SNES and the Playstation, the Genesis and the Saturn were pretty thin on RPG's. The best RPG's on those two systems were made by Sega themselves (Shining Force, Phantasy Star, Panzer Dragoon Saga). The Dreamcast also didn't have a lot of RPG's, but I think it's short life had something to do with that.

[ninjarabbit]

The DC failed because Sega was unable to put up much of a fight after the failures of the Saturn, 32x, and Sega CD.

[Hyper_Eye]

I believe Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia are two pretty good RPG's found on the DC.

[dalton4life]

The DC failed because Sega was unable to put up much of a fight after the failures of the Saturn, 32x, and Sega CD.

 

That the biggest reason IMO. Also hate them or not, EA sells more games than anyone. No EA support definitely hurt Dreamcast big time too.

[2600Lives]

Genesis had Phantasy Star 2-4, Beyond Oasis, Super Hydlide, The Faerie Tale Adventure, The Immortal, Ys, Warsong, Sword Of Vermillion (totally kick ass game), and the Shining series, of course (and who can forget the killer Landstalker). Saturn had Dragon Force, Shining Force 3, Burning Heroes (a good game, and I dun care what anybody says), Dark Wizard, Virtual Hydlide, and the absolutely kick ASS Legend Of Oasis. And those are just off the top of my head. The DC? I can think of three, and two have already been mentioned. Grandia 2, Skies Of Arcadia, and Time Stalkers.