Amount of consoles sold worldwide

[kool kitty89]

Can't believe pages have gone by without anyone correcting you on this, but:

DC had an official Sega branded VGA cable and, later, an officially branded VGA box.

And, to the contrary, more than 1% of DC owners took advantage of VGA output, especially as the gen wore on and ED and HDTVs with RGB-HV/VGA/"PC" video inputs were available.

Also, just an aside to the folks who had their computers slowed down by that epic post of videos a few pages ago (well, actually there's been a few of those in this topic lol): dudes...flashblock. Seriously.

Gah, I crossed my wires thinking about the Wii. (unofficial VGA support there -though there's several others that applies to too iirc).

Anyway, I do find it rather hard to believe that a significant portion of DC owners during the active (pre-discontinuation) life of the console actually had it displayed through VGA. I'd also find it hard to believe that more than 1% of DC owners at that time had ED/HDTVs (let alone ones with VGA input).
I'd expect the majority of North American users had it hooked up via composite video, with a lesser number using S-Video, and a very select few using VGA. (and note, on the S-video comment, I don't mean to imply that TVs with S-video weren't that common, but just that most perople would defaul to composite regardless, as it's wasy and obvious and came as such out of the box -all reasons that the GC, Xbox, and PS2 were very commonly hooked up as such . . . RF was the only low-end connection that became uncommon, and I knew people that DID have 6th gen consoles hooked up through RF, very late in the generation too )

[j_factor]

I'd also find it hard to believe that more than 1% of DC owners at that time had ED/HDTVs (let alone ones with VGA input).

Sure, but plenty had it hooked up to a monitor, right beside their PC. That's why the official Sega VGA box has a VGA-in -- to make it easy to switch between DC and PC on your monitor.

[Black_Tiger]

I sometimes played my DC on my VGA monitor bitd. That's why I bought a third party VGA box. It looks nicer and has s-video output. So I would just take the s-video cable from my dvd player and hook it to the VGA box or take the cable from my PC monitor to connect the DC to it.

That was the whole point of the VGA box, to connect it to a VGA monitor. I bought a new Sony TV just before the last wave of crts included component. But even those didn't support 480p. Even late into the Xbox lifespan when I found a local store selling an import VGA cable for Gamecube I thought "great! Now I can play Gamecube games on my monitor", not "someday I can use this on an hdtv".

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, some of those 1st/3rd person levels just drag on and on, with un-fun (ie patience testing and frustrating more than challenging) difficulty issues. (that train level is one of the worst examples of that)
More of the vehicle stuff mixed in with the 3rd person shooter/platform action would have worked a lot better.

Also, the final level is really nice too (pretty sure it's the final one), the open space battle where you have to blow up that space station (or whatever, I forget what it actually was) in a RoTJ reminiscent assault on the Death Star core sort of thing.
It's a pain to actually GET to that level though. (and I never did without cheating . . . or renting a game with saves that far already )


Edit: yep, that was the final level, the assault on Xizor's station. Also, there's a "bad" (incomplete) ending and teaser if you play on easy.

On an off topic note, I like some of the youtube comments on and animated SoTE movie/miniseries being a better idea for a film than the prequels were . . . or the special edditions for that matter. (which were partially spurred by the SotE multimedia project, apparently)

I got N64 SotE years ago, but honestly, I'm not sure if I ever actually finished the first FPS level, in the Hoth base... I played a few levels later in the game via a save file on the cart, but yeah, I may love Star Wars and the N64, but SotE is a very early N64 game and it shows, particularly in the FPS stages, which have poor controls (NEED TUROK CONTROLS!), and levels which are way too long (like Turoks 1 or 2 as well...). The Turok games are much better than SotE, though...

[sheath]

...I hope your post is sarcastic. Because if it isn't, and you're actually agreeing with that Sony exec's statement:

You should know better by now.

I should know what better by now? Sorry, I just posted a fact that Sony takes credit for putting Sega out of the hardware business, nothing more. Obviously that doesn't mean they actually 100% were responsible, that would be absurd. Kind of like claiming that Sega themselves were 100% responsible for their consoles and games not selling well enough, or the Arcade industry dieing off. The points that I can extrapolate from Sony is that they intended to put competition out of the console market, all competition. That is as opposed to a business philosophy of simply making a better product and letting it speak for itself.

As for the Dreamcast VGA discussion, back in the day I only saw people using the Dreamcast with a VGA monitor. I didn't buy a VGA box during the system's life because I never liked playing games in front of my computer desk. Once I managed to buy a good quality VGA to component adapter/upscaler I never looked back as far as Dreamcast video solutions. My current HDTV has a VGA input so I just use a long VGA cable rather than being tempted to upscale it. The image quality at 480p is better than the upscaled Xbox 360 re-releases as far as I can tell.

[kool kitty89]

I don't really get why Sony even made that press release worded that way. Are there people out there who are actually impressed by such negative, bullying language like that?

Hmm . . . <things of various political campaigns> yeah, maybe so, though even there I can't actually think of a directly comparable example. (I mean can you think of any political campaigns that publicized how they successfully ruined the compeition? . . . not how they beat them or outdid them, but actually drove them into the ground and ruined them?)