Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: E3 Questions for all who attended, esp. Mario Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 23:03:01 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3578B165.1DDB7CD9@mail.datasys.net> References: <35718657.3581814@news.scea.sony.com> <3576a92c.636582@205.149.189.29> <3576cf57.44658069@news.scea.sony.com> <35775E99.6C681DAC@mail.datasys.net> <35773971.5580709@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Matthew Hulett wrote: > After getting your e-mail, I see you are refering to Dreamcast, > while I am referring to Project X. It (Project X) is supposed to > launch in four months... I don't think they are going to make this > X-mas season and their October launch. That is why I am surprised it > wasn't open to the public. I wasn't even aware that there was a project X untill I herd about it in this newsgroup. > But, even if I was refering to Dreamcast, they should have opened > it to the public anyway, Sega needs all the positive press they can > get. ;-))) Seriously, I think it was wise for Sega to keep quiet on > Dreamcast, why inform Saturn owners that their platform is dead? > Better to let them fantasize that the platform is getting full > support, and that they made a good choice. I suspect that gamers like > us have seen the writing on the wall for a long time, but the average > joe probably doesn't realize that his platform is on life support, and > fading fast. Sega seems to be like that, why inform people and stop > them from buying more Saturns over the next year... That's how Sega thought when they did a suprise release of the Saturn. They didn't want people to say, "Oh! Saturn is comming out in a few days, so I won't bother with this 32x thingie". Greed got the better of them, as well as ignorance. They thought that people would get excited very quickly and go out and grab the new saturn. But people eyed the new system with caution, Rather than looking at the system and going "Yippe!". -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com (Replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me) UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt