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   From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   Rich Hutnik wrote:   
   > This CNET article makes me think back to the Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast   
   > days.  Any old posters who read here remember those days, complete   
   > with Sega leaving the console business?  I remember people thinking it   
   > was a GREAT move, how Sega would finally get their games all over and   
   > make money.   
   >   
   > Well, how has it turned out?  CNET article on here said they lost half   
   > a billion dollars in revenue last year.  It is looking like I   
   > predicted back then.  Sega being a software maker is marginally   
   > relevant, at best, and they wouldn't nearly get the attention they had   
   > in the past with their own platform.   
   >   
   > Anyone else care to comment here?  How has things turned out in your   
   > assessment?   
   > - Rich   
      
        Sega has never been the same since the Dreamcast.  From the moment   
   they started generating revenue by porting Dreamcast games to the   
   Gamecube and PS2 I knew something was up.  Aside from a few gems, in the   
   last seven years Sega has not been Sega, they've been Akklaim using Sega   
   titles to shovel out sub-par sequels.  Somehow or another Sega lost   
   their creative soul when they dropped the Dreamcast, and now all they   
   can do is buy up developers and farm out their own IP to second parties.   
      
   --   
   Scott   
      
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