Sega/Sammy loses half a billion US dollars...

details please?

 

Good.


Death to Sega. Finish what should've happened in 2002.

 

LOL starts erecting the most powerful flameshield in the universe.

 

wow... what happened?


EDIT: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6190926.html

 

Hey man, I loved Sega when they were a good company. But I always felt they should've just gone out with the Dreamcast, as opposed to driving their name and the franchises I grew up with further and further into the ground.

 

Lets get this into prespective...

The pachinko business loses a lot of money
The game centre businesses have serious troubles which includes their China operations.
The arcade business suffers a downturn

Game sales however have seen an increase. With a 20% increase over last year. Anyone saying that Sega will die, needs to face up to the fact that they are doing quite well.

 

Well thats unfortunate.

 

I love sega....
Sure, some of their newer titles suck, but I have faith in them to make lots of money on said sucky games, and eventually be restored to their former glory and start making unique, awesome, and downright wierd games again.

 

You've got to wonder on the long term value of a company that makes its money from machines that wurr and flash when you dump a load of ball-bearings into them. I couldn't help but laugh at reasoning - we've held back a number of major titles. Haha!

Still, I am very sad to see such negative results from the company and from the coments people are making here in this thread. *shakes fist*

 

Looks like we've got a cockeyed optimist here.

The real Sega died in 2003, and that's all she wrote. The likelihood that Sega will ever be "restored to their former glory" is, I would say, zero percent at best.

 

It's F*ing Sammy and their F*ing pachinko shit that's killing Sega. In fact it's Sammy that's killing Sega full stop! face it, even back in the 8 bit and 16 bit days ANYTHING released by Sammy on home consoles then was complete shit just like now.

This week I'm really getting back in to F-Zero GX on the Cube but now in Progressive scan / Widescreen thanks to the Wii. This is what Sega was all about. Amazing visuals with gameplay to match. i seriously believe that if Sega merged with the likes of Namco or Konami we'd still be getting this level of quality rather than the crap we get now. Sega would have had more money, kept it's talented programmers and still made fans happy.

Sammy, shite name, shite games, shit full stop!

yakumo

 

At least it was just US dollars.

I dunno. I don't like Sega nowadays. I agree with JP. I don't think there's anyway they'll go back to being SEGA.

 

Capcom should buy sega then my 2 favs will be one.

that and sega will stop sucking

 

there's only one way to go after sucking, and that's swallowing.

 

Or choking and dying.

 

true, she's quite old and really beaten

 

From a business sense Microsoft should have bought out Sega, after all they practically copied the Dreamcast formula for Xbox. They could have even branded the original Xbox as a Sega console, and would have had the money to fund properlly developed Sonic games and so on. Perhaps the xbox could have done well in Japan then.

 

SEGA should die alredy and be remembered as a great company in the 90's and early 00's. Don't keep fucking up all the great sagas.