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It's likely my age, but articles like this are inspirational to me. Look at all that beautiful design. Sega really knew what they were doing. I'm sad they were

It's likely my age, but articles like this are inspirational to me. Look at all that beautiful design. Sega really knew what they were doing. I'm sad they were pushed out by stuffy Microsoft and Sony.

xwdv 4y ago
If Sega had a true Steve Jobs like visionary they could have become the Apple of console gaming. Alas, their time has passed.
- fartcannon 4y ago
  Yeah they were definitely out marketed. A Steve Jobs like marketing force but hopefully not the utilitarian design of Apples products. Barf!
causi 4y ago
To me the Dreamcast controller was by far the best-feeling controller of that generation. It's a terrible shame they didn't have the vision to embrace dual-analog and game-agnostic online voice chat.
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warning26 4y ago
It's really too bad that SEGA completely hemorrhaged talent after dropping their hardware business -- nothing they've made since then has come close to what they used to release.
- astrange 4y ago
  On the contrary I think they're good again; they own Atlus and the Yakuza series which are very popular, and some smaller things like Project Diva. Although I think Atlus's games are kind of shallow and relying on teenage edginess lately, Persona 5 feels like they wanted to be about relevant societal issues but only researched them by watching TV dramas. Sonic games are consistently bad, but they've always been like that, and the main appeal of the series is wondering why its fans are so weird. (ie just think of any word X and google "X the Hedgehog" and you'll get strange fetish art)
  - warning26 4y ago
    > Sonic games are consistently bad, but they've always been like that I suppose that's my main point of reference so I'm a bit biased. Sonic games were generally considered to be good on SEGA hardware, and generally became awful afterward with very few exceptions. (Generations, Colors, and Mania were arguably the only good Sonic games in the past 20 years)

xwdv 4y ago

If Sega had a true Steve Jobs like visionary they could have become the Apple of console gaming. Alas, their time has passed.

fartcannon 4y ago
Yeah they were definitely out marketed. A Steve Jobs like marketing force but hopefully not the utilitarian design of Apples products. Barf!

causi 4y ago

To me the Dreamcast controller was by far the best-feeling controller of that generation. It's a terrible shame they didn't have the vision to embrace dual-analog and game-agnostic online voice chat.

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warning26 4y ago

It's really too bad that SEGA completely hemorrhaged talent after dropping their hardware business -- nothing they've made since then has come close to what they used to release.

astrange 4y ago
On the contrary I think they're good again; they own Atlus and the Yakuza series which are very popular, and some smaller things like Project Diva. Although I think Atlus's games are kind of shallow and relying on teenage edginess lately, Persona 5 feels like they wanted to be about relevant societal issues but only researched them by watching TV dramas. Sonic games are consistently bad, but they've always been like that, and the main appeal of the series is wondering why its fans are so weird. (ie just think of any word X and google "X the Hedgehog" and you'll get strange fetish art)
- warning26 4y ago
  > Sonic games are consistently bad, but they've always been like that I suppose that's my main point of reference so I'm a bit biased. Sonic games were generally considered to be good on SEGA hardware, and generally became awful afterward with very few exceptions. (Generations, Colors, and Mania were arguably the only good Sonic games in the past 20 years)