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From: "Daniel Jorge Caetano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: Exclusive interview about Konami and the S.C.C. (plus cracking
software stuff)
>On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:07:45 -0300, Leonard Silva de Oliveira wrote:
>>This is how piracy harms the industry nowdays. Dreamcast copy protection
>>defeat were
>>so simple that I suspect it humiliated SEGA. I think that made they give
um
>>on the hardware
>>market and invest theyr efforts only on software ...
> It's off... but Sega had already gave up video-game hardware market.
>DreamCast is discotinued by Sega Japan, will be soon by Sega USA and
>Sega has no plans of a new video-game. Their projects not focus on
>new versions of their games to Playstation 2 and Nitendo 64.
Yes, they even developped a newer enhanced version of the NAOMI hardwave,
the NAOMI2 with GD-Rom support... They will keep things going, but even in
the
arcades, the scene isn't very bright ... Because online gaming, home
consoles and computers
seems to be attracting much more attention from the kids than the old "dime"
eater arcade
machines. (exept for some stuff like the Dance Dance Revolution or other
more creative
games. Nowdays fewer people goes to the arcade just to play a 2D or 3D
fighter than in the
90's ....)
> Of course Sega will not leave Arcade scene. This is just about
>home-console market.
For now yes ... that's it ... but as I said, I belive the future for that
kind of business isn't really
that good ...
Cya MSXers ...
P.S.: To put in a word of proportion ... Any PC lamer nowdays can burn a
Dreamcast or
Playstation 2 botleg disc with a standard CD-R burner. It never had so easy
to copy and steal
software than it was in 1986 with the megaroms. Crackers at that time were
really programming
and cracking wizards ... Nowdays lamers have automated software to patch
illegal data for them.
That's revolting ! See ya ...
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