Yuck, I truly hope he doesn't get the go ahead to make a television show about videogames, going by the obviously poorly researched article, it'd be a terrible diservice.
Nintendo were stuck with no games after SGI jumped ship?? WTF? Nintendo are world famous for their IP, SGI are the hardware, just as ARM, Rambus, Sony, Bandai and other partners have been over the years, nothing more.
And SEGA backing just one console? hardly, it'd take a monumentous effort, for such a thing to happen now. Remember, it isn't just SEGA anymore, the former AM R&D departments have all split, Sonic Team, Hitmaker, Wow Entertainment, and the others, they all control their own destiny's, as an example it looks increasingly like Sonic Team are snuggling up with Nintendo exclusively (on the dedicated games systems that is, ignoring the likes of DoCoMo for the moment).
And finally, back to Nintendo, to be pushing the whole "N64 was a failure" line just stinks. Oh sure, it was a failure, because, yeah, it is the second best selling system between the PlayStation and the poorly Saturn, it's lived as long a life as the PlayStation, and whilst not having the massive catalogue of games that PS has, has still had some of the most sought after games. Sure it was a failure, why don't they just give up eh!
Of course this whole lament ignores the fact that many people browse the web with text browsers/images turned off..
what with most connections being over POTS (Plain, Old, Telephone System), plus, of course it is a lot better/faster w/o pictures.
You're kidding right? I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but the court action against Galoob was taken out by both Nintendo and SEGA. Sony haven't been out of the press much in the last year, what with the Apple Mac Sony PlayStation emulator and the PCs bleem! emu. How about Atari's arogance towards everyone else ("no you can't develop for our system, only Atari can" - where do you think Activision came from?)
No, Nintendo aren't perfect, but understand they are out to protect their IP, as any company would - sometimes they do stupid things, but after weighing everything up, they still make some of the best videogames.
Sega have been working with Iomega on a zip storage device (that sits snugly underneath the DC) for a while now. The reason it has so far not been released is economic reasoning; up until now it would have cost as much as the Dreamcast console, and that is to much for the average consumer to consider paying.
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Nintendo were stuck with no games after SGI jumped ship?? WTF? Nintendo are world famous for their IP, SGI are the hardware, just as ARM, Rambus, Sony, Bandai and other partners have been over the years, nothing more.
And SEGA backing just one console? hardly, it'd take a monumentous effort, for such a thing to happen now. Remember, it isn't just SEGA anymore, the former AM R&D departments have all split, Sonic Team, Hitmaker, Wow Entertainment, and the others, they all control their own destiny's, as an example it looks increasingly like Sonic Team are snuggling up with Nintendo exclusively (on the dedicated games systems that is, ignoring the likes of DoCoMo for the moment).
And finally, back to Nintendo, to be pushing the whole "N64 was a failure" line just stinks. Oh sure, it was a failure, because, yeah, it is the second best selling system between the PlayStation and the poorly Saturn, it's lived as long a life as the PlayStation, and whilst not having the massive catalogue of games that PS has, has still had some of the most sought after games. Sure it was a failure, why don't they just give up eh!
Of course this whole lament ignores the fact that many people browse the web with text browsers/images turned off.. what with most connections being over POTS (Plain, Old, Telephone System), plus, of course it is a lot better/faster w/o pictures.
You're kidding right? I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but the court action against Galoob was taken out by both Nintendo and SEGA. Sony haven't been out of the press much in the last year, what with the Apple Mac Sony PlayStation emulator and the PCs bleem! emu. How about Atari's arogance towards everyone else ("no you can't develop for our system, only Atari can" - where do you think Activision came from?) No, Nintendo aren't perfect, but understand they are out to protect their IP, as any company would - sometimes they do stupid things, but after weighing everything up, they still make some of the best videogames.
Sega have been working with Iomega on a zip storage device (that sits snugly underneath the DC) for a while now. The reason it has so far not been released is economic reasoning; up until now it would have cost as much as the Dreamcast console, and that is to much for the average consumer to consider paying.