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Qroach said:Arrogant, to think they can compete? Oh come on Vince. Sega is probably the only company that can compete in the sports market with EA.
For the most part sports sales overall have been down from last year on all platforms.
They lost in sales, the games themselves are almost consistently equal to or better than the competing EA offerings in most aspects, reviews often even gave them the edge. Questions is, will this quality ever be translated into sales in the US?Vince said:Q, common now. IIRC, EA's Madden2003 outsold the sega equivalent [2k3] by a factor of like 5 or 10. It's insane. Sega sports lost descisivly in every area they pitted themselves against EA in. You don't talk shit unless you can pull it off - they clearly did not.
Goldni said:Well they cant reach mass market on two of three consoles..they need all three. I love Sega to but thier business decsions are dumbass somtimes. If i ran a video game company I'd want the business decisions of Nintendo, the marketing ideas of Sony and the money of MS.
If Sega can't support GCN devlopment of their big sports titles on GCN then they deserve to just fold up and die as a company.
If you are porting a game between two platforms (PS2 and XBox), the development costs to move it to a third platform shouldn't be that significant.
NBA 2k2 for example has sold around 60K on GCN. 60K isn't a large number of sales, but if Sega can't cover the costs of supporting a third platform based on 60K sales when the code base is already designed for multiplatform, they should just fold up shop and leave the gaming business.
Well they cant reach mass market on two of three consoles..they need all three. I love Sega to but thier business decsions are dumbass somtimes. If i ran a video game company I'd want the business decisions of Nintendo, the marketing ideas of Sony and the money of MS.
Now that's pretty harsh. it's more like if they continue to even bother with gamecube sports titles, they will fold up in die.
They have more chance of folding up and dying from there continued support of XBox then if they continue to produce a few multi-platform sports games on GameCube.
The difference between sports game sales on XBox and GameCube isn't that significant
Keeping the GameCube sports titles coming is worth it just to show support to GameCube.
Because any big lack of support from Sega (like cutting off sports titles) could piss off the fans of there second biggest Platform!
BTW, I suppose if you think Sega should drop sports titles from GameCube you also think they should drop all none sports games from XBox? Because none sports games from sega on XBox only sold 130,000 in those 8 months. That's worse then sports title sales on GameCube
Tagrineth said:Vince: Well Madden has the advantage of the sheer penetration of the Madden NAME. Good old Joe Schmo will be more likely to pick a game named after an old Am. Football hero and now announcer, than some no-name game (SEGA means nothing to Joe Schmo).
Qroach said:Teasy,
Now about pissing off gamecube fans, I'm onyl going to comment on this once since you won't like it. Working for a publisher i see lot's of titles and have a good idea of what most develoeprs are working on. We have a big dtabase with a few hundread develoeprs looking for publishers. It shows what tiles they are working on and what paltforms they are supporting. I can tell you right now, that Gamecube support from the majority of these developers are pretty minimal. For the most part you see PS2, Xbox, and sometimes PC, when they are working on multiplatform titles. Moving into 2003 and 2004, I think there's going to be a LOT of "pissed off" gamecube fans unfortunatly.
bryanb said:Qroach said:Teasy,
Now about pissing off gamecube fans, I'm onyl going to comment on this once since you won't like it. Working for a publisher i see lot's of titles and have a good idea of what most develoeprs are working on. We have a big dtabase with a few hundread develoeprs looking for publishers. It shows what tiles they are working on and what paltforms they are supporting. I can tell you right now, that Gamecube support from the majority of these developers are pretty minimal. For the most part you see PS2, Xbox, and sometimes PC, when they are working on multiplatform titles. Moving into 2003 and 2004, I think there's going to be a LOT of "pissed off" gamecube fans unfortunatly.
This is the biggest load of bullshit that's been posted around here lately.
Oh, all knowing Qroach, why don't you share the names of these titles in 2003 or 2004 that won't be supporting the GC. Please open your big secret marketing database and tell us the names of these major gaming companies that have decided that they should only develop for the PS2, XBox or PC. Or does your database include the makers of games the likes of Kabuki Warriors, Bruce Lee, Blinx, etc.
The truth of the matter is that the GC has reasonably strong 3rd party support. 3rd party product (Spiderman, TimeSplitter 2, Sega's non-sports titles) will continue to sell on the GC cause there is money to be made. Its clear that the Japanese 3rd parties are supporting the GC more and more and fleeing the XBox platform as fast as they can.