"Age of Discovery", "Iron Fist of Wrath", "Fantasy Star", "Comic Zone", "Violence Nemesis", "Dragon Attack", "Rocket Knight"... Some of these names are fortunate to continue later generations, while others are short-lived. △, but in any case, these excellent works finally revolve around an era that makes people feel happy, even if this era is extremely short.

This is in the memory of Jester, the most glorious era of Sega.

They almost, yes, almost, made the whole world forget Nintendo, forget Mario.

But it's just almost.

Although MD's share has always been the best in the European and American markets, in the Japanese market, Sega was defeated when facing the powerful offensive of S.

Mario's influence and appeal are really incredible.

When S only sold one million units, the sales of a Mario series "Super Mario World" developed specifically for S had reached a terrible 1.8 million copies. This means that there were almost 800,000 people. Even when they didn't buy the game console, they had already bought the game "Super Mario World".

This is unique in the entire game's release history.

About a year after S was launched, the direction of this war has been settled. Although MD is more popular in the European and American markets, it still cannot withstand S's powerful software offensive. Nintendo has an incomparable advantage both on the first and third parties.

The end of the md era is the beginning of the tragic song.

When Jester was analyzing this Warring States Period for the first time in the history of the game, to be fair, Sega MD was an excellent sixteen-bit machine, but Sega Saturn, that is, SS, was a host with insufficient vision planning.

It is far behind its biggest competitor at the time. Sony's PS was released.

Whether in terms of technology or vision, if the gap in technology can be made up, then the gap in vision is almost insurmountable. Sony has Ken Jung Ryogi, who can see ten years later.

However, Sega. There is no such person.

Although "VR Warrior" and other works that established 3D games have bloomed on this console, its weak 3D functions have still become a bottleneck for development. This was particularly obvious when AAP was later transplanted into "Resident Evil". Problems such as longer disk readings, rougher polygons and translucent special effects all exposed the conservativeness of SS's initial design. After all, no one expected that the natural enemy of SS was no longer the same conservative Nintendo. Even Nintendo himself did not expect.

Sony.

Jester recited the name silently by himself. Sony's previous concessions and dormants were all for the sake of making a big splash on PS.

I just don’t know what Sony has prepared for this battle of the next era?

Sony entered the game market by itself because of the breakdown of its cooperation with Nintendo. This was true both in Jester’s era and in this era, both in order to recover previous losses and to further explore this market. Sony launched the play station console, but the senior executives of Sony did not have high expectations for the market at the beginning. Apart from Ken Kutaraki, Sony himself was really not confident.

But it was such a newcomer in the game industry. He kicked Nintendo who stabbed himself in the back as soon as he came up, and also knocked Ss down.

But this era is different.

This time, Jester has to face Sony, which is doing its best. It is not just Sony Computer Entertainment.

Jester shook his head slightly, temporarily kicking this somewhat chaotic idea out of his mind. Now it is not the time to think about it.

In the Ss era, Ssga was almost determined to do a big fight, whether it was the full transplant of the arcade series led by "VR Warrior", or the works specially developed for Ssga, "Sakura Wars", "Iron Armored Dragon", and even "Grantia" to fight against "Final Fantasy 7"... All this tells players that Ssga is still trying to stick to its hard-core path, and is also striving to seek new changes.

SS still lasted for about five years of the War of Resistance, and then announced the next generation of host D. Everything is like the cycle of fate, D's life is even shorter. In just two years, Sega issued a shocking statement to withdraw from the hardware market.

This is a painful transformation. Whether it is Sega itself or its large number of fans, they are all suffering. After eighteen years of persistence in the hardware market, all efforts eventually turned into bubbles. Sega's dream was shattered, and fans who had accompanied it all the way did not know how to express their depression and helplessness.

This is a tragedy in the business society and a consequence that everyone must bear.

Many people blamed Sony for the reason for Sega's fall. If there was no ps2 and if Sony had not been aggressive at the time, Sega might not have lost so quickly and lost so badly that when Microsoft joined the market and became a competitor in the market, many previous Sega fans joined Microsoft's camp without hesitation.

Nothing else, it's just to give Sega a breath and disgust Sony.

At that time, many people from Sega's home machine development department also joined Microsoft after Sega announced the launch of the hardware market. In the development of the iconic host of this generation of Waga, these hardware engineers from Sega contributed extremely important strength.

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After that, Sega became a pure software vendor. In 2005, it launched a work like Dragon, which is very realistic in the game type and is a bit close to "Shenmu".

"Like Dragon" is an action adventure game that tells the story of the former underworld Kazuma Kiryu who was sentenced to a prison sentence for ten years for his friend. After being released from prison, he has to face this world that has changed a lot, including the changing hearts of the people.

This game was quickly accepted by Sega fans and immediately recognized.

Not just because of his quality.

More because in this game, these fans saw Sega's former shadow and were born as a tough guy... (To be continued...)
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