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to: NICK ANDRE
from: TOM ARKHIT
date: 1998-04-16 05:45:00
subject: Re: Nintendo fun

 -=> On The 10 Apr 98  04:36:16 Nick screamed Re: Nintendo fun at Justin <=-
 >         Funny - that's what everyone said about the N64 before it came
 > out...  Sega will still have the same problems that they had with the
 > Saturn; bad management and bad marketting. Bernie Stolar, instead of
 > being fired for his gross mismanagement of SoA has instead now been
 > promoted to president of SoA, which pretty much, if you listen to fans
 > and third party developers in the NG's, makes the Katana dead on
 > arrival.
 JS> 
 JS> I would have to disagree. One of the main problems with the Saturn was 
that
 JS> was hard to program games for it. The Katana will be much more 
 JS> developer-friendly with its Microsoft OS. Sega's always had strong 1st 
part
 JS> games, but lost 3rd party support with the Saturn. They may not ever 
regain
 JS> their glory days with the Genesis, but the Katana certainly looks like a 
st
 JS> in the right direction.
 NA> Whats this? Katana is running a MICROSOFT operating system? I'm sorry,
 NA> but  if you've seen how unstable and buggy Win95 and 98 are, you'll
 NA> understand why  Katana is doomed.
Sony have now joined up with MS, which is a bit of a blow to Sega, who 
thought they had them all to themselves..
BTW..  Win 98 isn't actually that buggy...  95 was..  VERY, but the last 
pre-release of 98 is almost bug-free (not completely, but what OS/Software 
is..?)
L8r
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