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Offline dbv23
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« on: January 06, 2001, 06:09:59 PM »
Microsoft is unleashing it\'s beast and the manditory hype along with it. Everybody seems to be thinking XBOX, halve the posts in this PS2 forum alone have been about XBOX. Where\'s the huge marketing push by Sony and the increase in shipments to fight of there biggest threat? What is Sony doing to insure their #1 spot for a second generation?
What do you guys think? Is sony doing enough to fight of Microsoft, if not what do you think they need to do?
The only thing I\'ve heard about are threats of no more shipments to stores who advertise for Xbox. That proves Sony sees the possible trouble, but they need to do something to persued us and the masses when they finally get wind of the XBOX.
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2001, 06:12:37 PM »
Damn rock selling out............ its all his fault .
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2001, 06:12:54 PM »
Sony needs to focas on the Re-Launch In March  (In America anway). If they sell that out in weeks then they have a huge advantage not only over microsoft, but nintendo and of course Sega.

I sure hope Microsoft gets beaten for once.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2001, 06:13:51 PM »
March is when sony will counter attack all of this stupid hype.  Some AAA title are coming!  The games will decide this console war, and Sony has them! (If Microsoft doesn\'t steal them first!)
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2001, 06:19:45 PM »
I don\'t think Sega will continue to be a big factor against
Sony. They already threw their biggest blow while the PS2 shortage during christmas. With dwindling support, Sega going multi-platform, and 2 other largely hyped systems being released Sega\'s out of the race as an opponent to Sony. Unless of course by some wierd circumstance sony ends up in 3rd (yeah right....Though I guess anything IS possible.
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2001, 06:29:59 PM »
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Damn rock selling out............ its all his fault .


Yep, the WWF sold out to Microsoft, although WWF games will be on PS2, but this is a promotion deal for the system.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2001, 06:38:13 PM »
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Damn rock selling out............ its all his fault .


Yep, the WWF sold out to Microsoft, although WWF games will be on PS2, but this is a promotion deal for the system. [/B]


IF they really sold out, why would the WWF still promote games on all of the other Next-gen systems?  Wouldn\'t they scrap all of the other projects!  Imagine all the money THQ would lose without other Next-gen systems to support.  The WWF is THQ\'s ace-in-the-hole on all the other systems.  Considering THQ does not make many AAA games at all!

Also, the WWF is in the business to make money.  Why else would they have done all of the voting campaigns?  To boast PUBLIC opinion! That is why they have toned done the shows, removing all racy characters like Val Venis and the Godfather! Public opinion is everything! They will do ANYTHING to make money!
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2001, 06:39:23 PM »
Of course there will be more topics about XBox.  The thing just got unveiled this morning, and people are very excited about it.  I don\'t think you were here when the GC was partly unveiled at SpaceWorld (some of the controller hasn\'t bee shown yet, and some other things haven\'t been revealed).  When GC was unveiled there were a lot of GC topics also.  It will die down in a matter of days.
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2001, 06:51:16 PM »
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Of course there will be more topics about XBox.  The thing just got unveiled this morning, and people are very excited about it.  I don\'t think you were here when the GC was partly unveiled at SpaceWorld (some of the controller hasn\'t bee shown yet, and some other things haven\'t been revealed).  When GC was unveiled there were a lot of GC topics also.  It will die down in a matter of days.


I remember those moments! Back then I just read all of the posts.  It seemed like every post was about the gamecube!  I stoped reading for a few days, and they were gone! Magic I guess :)
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2001, 06:56:49 PM »
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I don\'t think Sega will continue to be a big factor against
Sony. They already threw their biggest blow while the PS2 shortage during christmas. With dwindling support, Sega going multi-platform, and 2 other largely hyped systems being released Sega\'s out of the race as an opponent to Sony. Unless of course by some wierd circumstance sony ends up in 3rd (yeah right....Though I guess anything IS possible.

Sega is NOT going multiplatform, and DC sales are going fine.
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« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2001, 07:05:09 PM »
What are the sales figures for the dreamcast in American.

In the middle of last year it was reported that over 3 million were sold. And now its almost 3 million.

Whats the exact figures ????
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2001, 07:49:08 PM »
Pick up the latest copy of EGM. Sega is going multi-platform, however they will still support the DC and the DC will geat all there blockbuster exclusives while other systems will get games latter after their released for DC.
I don\'t post anything as fact unless I know it to be fact. I love sega, I don\'t want them to fail, but they are loosing money and need to do something about it. This is just a way to make money for them so they can keep going.
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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2001, 11:40:56 PM »
EGM is just reporting the same multi platform rumor that spread a short while back. It\'s NOT true.

And I am not sure of the exact number of systems, segaweb.com has stated on multiple occasions leading into the holiday season, that DC has sold more than 4 million consoles in NA, and could get to the magical 5 million number this holiday season. Did they make it? I don\'t know, but Sega\'s sales were up 12.2 % over the same time last year, and we know DC had a great holiday sell through thanks to Sony\'s fowl up, so It wouldn\'t be a stretch to assume they are at 4.5 million systems easily.
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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2001, 02:02:04 AM »
hmmmm is DC sale really going that well? I know that KMART no longer sells them. They decided to not sell Dream cast systems anemore cuz they werent selling.

As for Xbox............why rock? WHY?!??!?

Aneways Xbox is all hyped up and everything but we havent really seen anething all that great. What games have we seen so far? Halo? Anething else? NO. I doubt Xbox will blow sony away. It may be 3X more powerful, but we havent seen ane games on it yet so dont believe the hype.
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« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2001, 03:05:10 AM »
I don\'t think that K-Mart is racking up the sales in PS2s either, considering that they have none to sell because of Sony. K-Mart was stuck with PSXs and N64s to sell for the holiday season because they are idiots. :)

BTW, I wouldn\'t be insulting Sega\'s sales considering the PS2\'s software sales in Japan...
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