-=> 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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