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Sega to Shifts Focus To Software

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-I-embed-a-dreamcast-in-my-skull? dept.

Manjit writes "Saw this Reuters story on yahoo. After reporting financial losses, Sega is announcing that they will be licensing the Dreamcast hardware design and shift their focus to software development. The interesting thing is the line about "including plans to provide game software for rival makers' consoles." Now that Sega will move away from the hardware business, we will be back to 3 major console makers this time next year, and the PS2 will have had a one year headstart. It does not bode well for Indrema trying to break into the console business."

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  1. Say goodbye to Sega by Sneakums · · Score: 4

    Every company that ever did a shift from hardware to software either got eaten, died or is on life support:

    • NeXT (some argue that NeXT ate Apple from the inside out, though)
    • Be (on a respirator)
    • Acorn (if you don't know who they are, shame on you!)
    • Apple (Okay, an exception; they backtracked).
    • Microsoft (no, wait... this isn't right)


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  2. Indrema's Savior by rho · · Score: 4

    ... will be Pong.

    Okay, that's a little smart-alecky, but really, all it takes is One Good Game, and people will buy the Indrema to play it. Think of all the people who went out and dropped $2K on a computer back in the early 90s to play Doom (they claimed it was for "working at home and stuff, mostly for the kids to learn about computers", but it was Dad blasting demons to bits at 2am).

    One good game. The N64 has been riding the wave of GoldenEye and (now) Perfect Dark for a long time now. Without those two games (and of course Mario and Zelda), the N64 would be a paperweight.

    One good game. Not a port or a repeat or a clone, but a True-Blue Killer App. With the Indrema being open, it has a good chance to do it, two.

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  3. none of this is new by juuri · · Score: 4

    All the conclusions drawn aren't really correct.

    This info has been floating around for quite a while... more importantly sega has already admitted to working on another console internally.
    So don't think the dreamcast is sega's last box. It may be the last box they build exclusively by themselves but they are way too far ahead in the arcade realm to stop building hardware.

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