![]() We can mention two of them : first while Nintendo depicted itself as a family-friendly company, Sega targeted teenagers, renegades, punks, and agressively attacked, through advertising, its main competitor. Many things were different between those companies. Sega managed to create a mascot and make it alsmost as famous as Mario Unfortunately, this latter did not went farther mainly because of Sega's reticences. To achieve that, Sega developed strong partneships with EA, Disney and even worked hand in hand with the development studio of Sony. With the MasterSystem first, and the MegaDrive (Genesis in North America) then, Sega has become one of the most popular companies in the world, a popularity represented by Sonic The Edgehog, the Sega's alter ego to Mario the plumber of Nintendo. While Nintendo took the lead in Japan, Sega put all its energy to fight them, taking this leadership sometimes in North America and Europe. It will be a big reminder for those who lived that era or a quick presentation for the young ones who didn't.ĭuring the 80's a company named Sega became one of the two biggest video games company in the world, both on the hardware - console and arcade, the latter having almost disapeared today in the western world - and the software. Introduction: 1992-1994, designing the Saturn, and a long list of mistakesĪt the beginning I didn't want to write a big introduction for this topic, but it clearly became difficult, even impossible (in fact, the introduction will probably be one of the bigger parts of this article). La version française de cette article est accessible ici. While still in the middle of a fight against the PSX and the N64, the Sega Saturn was killed in a few months. Topic posted the in the category Histoire et Technologie Saturn's misfortune: how Sega was forced to abandon console manufacturing
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