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8 years 3 months ago
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While I agree that Sega isn't up to what they used to be, it's not because they're making games for other consoles. That really doesn't matter much, and they've been doing it from the beginning. I have SEGA games on my Atari 2600, my Intellivision, my NES, and SNES. All of them are official. I also know of several official Sega releases on the PC and on the TurboGrafx-16. Almost all of these were made while Sega was also trying to promote their various game consoles.
Sega's games are suffering because:
1) They've been having financial problems for years, meaning smaller development budgets, despite the rising cost of developing games.
2) Key developers and designers at Sega have left the company to work elsewhere, including Yuji Naka, former leader of Sonic Team.
3) Sega has been purchased/merged with Sammy, and as a result has been going through drastic internal organizational changes, including the dissolution of nearly every internal development team. Nobody who is still making games for Sega is still working with the team they're used to working with.
If they still made their own console hardware, they'd have all of the same problems, except that their budgets would be even worse. That's why they stopped. If you don't like it, you should have got more of your friends to buy a Saturn and a Dreamcast. It's far too late now.
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