>Let's just release games and make them randomly exclusive to one of PS2/XBOX/GC>Multiplats? Nah fuck thatWhy were they so schizophrenic during the 6th gen?
>>12244339Last ditch effort of a post 9/11 corporate entities death throws.
in b4 the couple of exceptions that prove the rule (oh, fucking Shadow the Hedgehog, THANKS sega)
>>12244339They had different teams (Sonic Team, AM2, Smilebit, Hitmaker, WOW, etc) who wanted to work on their own projects. Some of them preferred this or that platform because of system architecture and/or market.
>>12244389>Be AM2>Release OutRun 2 on Xbox>Then Release VF4 on PS2>Why not Beach Spikers on the GameCube? yeah let's do that>Shenmue II? clearly only the Xbox is able to run it as well as the DreamcastNah, it was completely random
>>12244397I think something like Beach Spikers is more fitting on GC, it fits more with the theme of that console (Mario Sunshine, Wave Race, Super Monkey Ball, etc).VF4 is a flagship title so it had to be on PS2 because of the larger market-share.OutRun 2 was on Xbox because the Chihiro hardware was the most powerful at the time, they wanted to do something ambitious.It also had to do with the different markets of the various regions (Japan Vs. US/EU) and exclusive deals perhaps.
>>12244339They were always schizophrenic, you should have seen their "confusing strategy" with Saturn
>>12244464You know a lot about sega game development and I am sknowledge it
>>12244589>you should have seen their "confusing strategy" with SaturnYou mean the "hey let's not release any games outside of japan" strategy?I'll never understand why they didn't port Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder. That alone would have made me want a Saturn, probably many others too, Golden Axe was a well known and well liked IP.
>>12244339>Why were they so schizophrenic during the 6th gen?Because literally schizophrenic save sega children are perfectly normal.
dont forget the dozens of budget sega ages releases on the ps2 lol
>>12244339Because the company was on its knees after the failure of the Dreamcast, so they were throwing shit at the wall hoping something stuck. In the end they had no choice but to "merge" with (get taken over by) Sammy to survive.
Show some respect to SEGA
>>12245438>ESLShut up, poojeet suckdeep
>>12245443Someone outing themself as an ESL monkey by accusing someone else of being one is always the funniest outcome.
>>12244339Microsoft kept playing footsie with sega about an actual partnership. Sega knew “kid games” would sell better on Nintendo. Sega devs didn’t know how to work ps2
>>12245479Honestly developers just had to deal with it when it came to the PS2 due to its install base.
>>12245438>failure of the Dreamcastsega was a sinking ship after sega saturn. Dreamcast was doing fairly well but wasn’t the insane hit that sega needed to stay in the console industry
>>12245505sega probably would’ve been fine had they just tried to make the best out of the sega saturn situation and waited a little longer for their 6th gen console
>>12245526No, it was already over by then.
>>12245505the genesis add-ons killed the saturn
>>12244397didnt MS make some exclusivity deals with them early on?
>>12245370They axed Phantasy Star 4 which is unforgivable. The remake of 2 sucked because of the attack bar gimmick but the remake of 1 was good.
>>12244397>Well obviously Skies of Arcadia Legends goes on the Gamecube. And just the Gamecube.
>>12245620Sega tried to get dreamcast game compatibility with the Xbox
>>12245648Yeah. No competition at all. If you were a tendie and wanted a jarpig you had Skies, Symphonia, and Baten Kaitos. And that's it. Xbox users don't want jrpg and ps2 has too many
Schizos make the best games obv
>>12244339multiplats were complete cancer to produce back then
>>12244339It's pretty obvious that Xbox was supposed to be a true successor to the Dreamcast. The Duke is a clear evolution of the Sega 3D controller (just look at them side by side), it runs Windows just like the Dreamcast did, and a ton of Dreamcast exclusives got their sequels and ports on the Xbox, especially early on. But then, Xbox flopped in Japan hard, and Sega had to pivot, focusing more on the PS2 and Gamecube like everyone else did,
>>12245640the fantasy zone remake is interesting4 new levels and bonus stages are revampedand fantasy zone 2 got a full 16-bit arcade demake
>>12244397Shenmue II is easy to explain, the exclusivity was bought. Peter Moore wanted xbox to be the sega successor too bad.
>Hey, those triggers present in the Xbox controller are pretty good for racing games...>So let's release our racing sim on PS2!
>>12244339Nintendo needed Sega as an allyMicrosoft needed Sega as an allyAnd Sony wanted Sega as a flex
Sega is made up of incompetent and lazy freaks.
>>12245443user is underage
>>12247793Did you work at SEGA?
>>12247620Yes, the only platform with any wheel support worth mentioning because they actually put a USB port on it.
>>12249886if you only cater to wheelfags, your game will sell poorly
