Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony

Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by Cthulhu_ on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:51AM (#36615738)

The PS5 is a good example, it was announced over a year before it came out and I'm confident first-party developers could already work on games for the platform, but... exclusives were lackluster at best, and for the first year or two it was pretty much all cross-platform titles.

Probably for the best since production couldn't keep up with demand, so the PS5 was a slow burner that didn't yet need exclusives to sell the console.

But a better launch lineup would've been nice.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by hbn on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:06AM (#36615995)

PS4 wasn't too different. Many people held off on getting one until Bloodborne came out 16 months later.

I think Microsoft is the one in a really weird position ever since they started releasing PC versions of basically all their platform exclusives. Not that I'm complaining, but they've pretty much made it so there's zero reason for PC gamers to buy an Xbox, whereas there's still reasons to buy a Switch or PlayStation for the exclusives.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by lukas099 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:34AM (#36616494)

I wonder if Microsoft does this because gaming has been one of the biggest differentiators for their OS. That's an advantage that is rapidly fading and they want to hold onto it as long as possible.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by adamc on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:00PM (#36618028)

Fading? Vs. Linux, maybe. Mac OS is still a bad platform for games.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by incahoots on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:27PM (#36618461)

Not sure if that stance is going to be relevant much longer. I recall Apple releasing a new framework that actually had some substance during their last keynote. I think Linus did a segment, they were running cyberpunk on Mac at 30FPS, not ideal sure, but it's a big step up.

https://developer.apple.com/games/

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by adamc on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:08PM (#36620292)

I don't know. I can hope for the best, but when they killed 32-bit apps and with them a ton of classic games, I gave up on Apple.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by lukas099 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:22PM (#36619493)

Yeah I meant vs. linux. True that it should continue to be a motivator for potential Mac switchers.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by withinboredom on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:16PM (#36618295)

Heh, possibly. My brother won’t touch a PC game unless it runs on Steam Proton in Linux.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by autoexec on Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:52PM (#36621833)

Are there a bunch of PS5 exclusives now? Last I checked it was all PC ports and PS3/4 remakes. What are the must have PS5-only games right now?

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