<story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkjonesuk</author><text>I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.&lt;p&gt;I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.&lt;p&gt;Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.&lt;p&gt;When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.&lt;p&gt;I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the games.  It always was the games.&lt;p&gt;I got the NES for Super Mario Bros.  I got the Playstation for Tekken.  Many others got it for Final Fantasy VII.&lt;p&gt;If the only game the Playstation had was Tekken I still would have bought it.  Sega just never had a hit game that I wanted.  Marketing and the hardware didn&amp;#x27;t matter to me.  It was the games.</text></comment>