RetroGaming

18909 readers

287 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

Be kind.
No spam or soliciting for money.
No racism or other bigotry allowed.
Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

607

Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

100 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the best time to market. They simply didn't have the big IP that Nintendo and Sony had been marketing at the time. Sega at that time led with Sonic - as they always do - and then a few properties that were really fun and original, but required an expensive console to even try and get aquatinted with.

This is not even bringing up the prior hardware failures they had launched. They just miscalculated on the popularity of Sonic globally. It's not enough to get people with consoles that are working just fine and still have years of games to come to switch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't remember what Sonic game came out for the DC. I'm sure they ran ads, but the DC game that I remember above all is Ecco the Dolphin. Never got to play the game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yep. That was a property from the Master System and Game Gear that got a 3D revamp for DC, but don't think it was really very popular to begin with, so naturally wasn't a huge selling point.