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now for a long i was curious why sega and nintendo co-op with eachother and what their history was. and man i came with some interesting stuff.
People who lived to see the 16 bit generation (a.k.a. 4th gen SNES vs GENISIS) know what happend between nintendo and sega, they were like in a total console war. and sega played the war very agressive with negative commercials against nintendo. like the quote "sega does what nintendon't ". now nintendo had the lead, because they have also a good reputation of the last gen. and most importantly nintendo had good games and a mascot. so then sonic came as the mascot of sega, and it had positive effect for sega.
but sega dug his own grave. they where too focused on improving there hardware. they even attemted to switch from cartridges to cd-roms during that time. and wat was nintendo doing? just sitting back and still producing good games. yes nintendo was the ultimate victor here.
now we come the 128 bit genration (a.k.a 6th gen with Dreamcast, GC, PS2, XBOX)
sega released the dreamcast 16 months before PS2 came out and 3 years before GC came out. after the PS2 came out, then sega already lost the battle. so PS defeated Sega during that time.
so sega gives up making consoles and start with game development for all consoles.
- Microsoft orderd many sonic titles, microsoft wanted to improve relationship with sega because xbox was still new and wanted many connections, like midway, capcom, konami ect...
- PS2, sonic titles where released but not much and no exlusive title either.
- GC, yeah nintendo and sega was making plans together (during that time it was a rumor)
and nintendo and sega released the first game they co-op with, F-ZERO GX/AX (many people think nintendo and sega's first game together was the olympics game with sonic and mario, but no this was the first game they worked together)
Anyway the game was a huge hit.
so now, at the current console gen, we see nintendo and sega making a stronger relationship. and still till now sega's blue mascot survived.
so my personal opinions about this.
man there are so many things you can say about this:
ironic (yeah ironic for sega indeed)
never say never again (who would have guessed that nintendo and sega would be pals)
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. (like yeah, sega and nintendo had PS as their common enemy)
I still hope Nintendo and Sega will work together in the future.
so people, what do you think about this?
please share your opinions and toughts.
(why picture? to set a little flavor to the topic :xd
People who lived to see the 16 bit generation (a.k.a. 4th gen SNES vs GENISIS) know what happend between nintendo and sega, they were like in a total console war. and sega played the war very agressive with negative commercials against nintendo. like the quote "sega does what nintendon't ". now nintendo had the lead, because they have also a good reputation of the last gen. and most importantly nintendo had good games and a mascot. so then sonic came as the mascot of sega, and it had positive effect for sega.
but sega dug his own grave. they where too focused on improving there hardware. they even attemted to switch from cartridges to cd-roms during that time. and wat was nintendo doing? just sitting back and still producing good games. yes nintendo was the ultimate victor here.
now we come the 128 bit genration (a.k.a 6th gen with Dreamcast, GC, PS2, XBOX)
sega released the dreamcast 16 months before PS2 came out and 3 years before GC came out. after the PS2 came out, then sega already lost the battle. so PS defeated Sega during that time.
so sega gives up making consoles and start with game development for all consoles.
- Microsoft orderd many sonic titles, microsoft wanted to improve relationship with sega because xbox was still new and wanted many connections, like midway, capcom, konami ect...
- PS2, sonic titles where released but not much and no exlusive title either.
- GC, yeah nintendo and sega was making plans together (during that time it was a rumor)
and nintendo and sega released the first game they co-op with, F-ZERO GX/AX (many people think nintendo and sega's first game together was the olympics game with sonic and mario, but no this was the first game they worked together)
Anyway the game was a huge hit.
so now, at the current console gen, we see nintendo and sega making a stronger relationship. and still till now sega's blue mascot survived.
so my personal opinions about this.
man there are so many things you can say about this:
ironic (yeah ironic for sega indeed)
never say never again (who would have guessed that nintendo and sega would be pals)
the enemy of my enemy is my friend. (like yeah, sega and nintendo had PS as their common enemy)
I still hope Nintendo and Sega will work together in the future.
so people, what do you think about this?
please share your opinions and toughts.
(why picture? to set a little flavor to the topic :xd
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