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The Sega Saturn (top) and Nintendo 64 (middle) struggled against Sony's newcomer, the PlayStation, which ultimately ended Sega and Nintendo's console war. In 1994 and 1995, there was a contraction in the video game industry, with NPD Group reporting a 17% and 19% year-to-year drop in revenue.
In 2014, a hack tied to North Korea saw millions of Sony emails and media get leaked, including Sony's plans to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. [4] The attack was thought to be in response to Kim Jon Un’s depiction in Seth Rogen's comedy, The Interview. [4] This incident threatened The Console Wars documentary's ...
In the far future, an area of the galaxy called the Wilds has been isolated by the Tempest, a storm-like phenomenon that destroys anything it touches, and may be expanding. [2] The Wilds are ruled by a mega-corporation called the Guild, which holds monopolies on space travel and commercial agriculture, among other things, and enforces this with ...
Sega's decision to implement a GD-ROM (though publicly advertised as a CD-ROM) for storage medium did save costs but it did not compare well against the PS2's much-touted DVD capabilities. Sega was either unable or unwilling to spend the advertising money necessary to compete with Sony, who themselves took massive losses on the PlayStation 2 to ...
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation is a 2014 non-fiction novel written by Blake J. Harris. It follows businessman Tom Kalinske in his venture as CEO of video game company Sega of America from 1990 to 1996, and details the history of the fierce business competition between Sega and Nintendo throughout the 1990s as well as the internal conflicts that took ...
It's worth noting, of course, that Sega has experimented with Sonic over the years, taking the character beyond his ultra-fast, run, roll and jump roots. Even the most recent Sonic game — last ...
Among elements of the first E3 that would continue into future events were large press conferences by the major companies Sony, Sega, and Nintendo showcasing their up-and-coming hardware and software. Notably, at point, both Sega and Sony were ready to introduce new hardware for Western releases, the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation ...
In the long run, this pushed many western third-party publishers such as Electronic Arts away from Nintendo consoles and supported competing consoles such as the Sega Genesis or Sony PlayStation. Most of the Nintendo platform-control measures were adopted by later console manufacturers such as Sega, Sony, and Microsoft, although not as stringently.