Reddit reviews Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
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That E3 must have been the highlight of Steve Race's career. He had left the failing Sega just about a year before over difficulties with (among other things) SOJ's refusal to allow him to do these kind of stunts.
Some other funny and silly things Race did during E3 1995 included putting PlayStation napkins on every table at the SEGA party, and releasing PlayStation balloons all over the Convention.
It really is too bad that less than a year after launching the PlayStation both him Olaf Olafsson(the guy talking) and most of the nonjapanese staff at Sony's Interactive Entertainment division got fired, despite the Play Station doing amazingly.
if your interested in more of the story the end of the book console wars covers it quite extensively. Its mostly a book about SEGA and even at that mostly about Tom Kalinske but its got a lot of good background on both Nintendo and Sony as well.
I would also highly recommend The Console Wars by Blake J Harris. It gives Sega's point of view on the whole thing, with a little bit of Nintendo and Sony interaction too.
Oh wow, it's written by the same guy who authored Console Wars!
This was a really interesting read:
https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504704657&sr=8-1&keywords=nintendo+sega+wars
not only you can read it on kindle, but it's super cheap these days too. It's a fantastic book, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
Hahahah, after readying the actual book Console Wars, I wouldn't be surprised :) The business behind our favorite childhood consoles is pretty interesting. I highly recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE
If you haven't read this book, you need to:
https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492493298&sr=8-1&keywords=console+wars
It's basically impossible to emulate that system. It had like, 8 or 9 "processors", but not in the same sense of modern multi-core processors. Just a bunch of specific task handlers. Sega had 0 respect for making game development easy (it used to be that the console makers limited the number of releases every year, so from a biz perspective Sega didn't care about ease of developers, they just cared about making a bad-ass console. Well, that strategy bit them on the ass when Sony jumped in and made a (for the time) developer-friendly set of tools and documentation for the PlayStation. You can read more about this period of console gaming in this book: Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation Pretty Sega-heavy, since all the execs have moved on and were willing to dish on-the-record about all of it. Nintendo and Sony are a little more buttoned-up.
Have a read of "Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation", it is very enlightening on this sort of stuff.
Massive cross-cultural problems happening between US sales teams and Japanese decision makers, there are a lot of cases where the Japanese head office makes a decision and passes it down to the rest of the company as law, while the US and European sales teams are telling them that it's a crazy idea and just why it will cause problems outside of Japan.