A real chance for Sega (Sony Playstation 2)

Member Name: kca101

Product:	Sony Playstation 2
Date:	11/08/00 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Always great games

Disadvantages: Delayed again

The delay of the PS2 launch must be great news for Sega - but will they make the most of it?

Technically the Dreamcast can do stuff the PS2 can't and should be the better games machine. Unfortunately it is suffering in a similar way to the Saturn - excellent technology, poor games.

No one (well, not many people) will buy a console because it can do fancy graphics and sound. They buy it for the games. Soul Caliber is one of the few truly excellent games on the Dreamcast and Sega should really use the next few months to launch some amazing games.

Shenmue looks great and shows that Sega are on the right track because other new games like World Series Baseball will not bring in the punters.

Sega's time is limited because you can bet that the day PS2 launches Sony will have ten or so fantastic games that everyone wants to play. By that time Dreamcast needs to have a better range of top titles.

If I were Sega I would be ensuring that the top PS2 games are already available on the Dreamcast by the time PS2 launches.

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