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...DREAMCAST DEFERRED In the latest war of the game consoles, first blood has been drawn. Last week a Japanese newspaper reported that Sega would cease production of its popular Dreamcast console in March. Sega has refused to confirm the report, insisting on its "global commitment to Dreamcast," but if true, the news would come as a bitter disappointment to the approximately 3 million U.S. gamers who bought a Dreamcast. Either way, Sega will continue to publish software for Dreamcast. It's tough all over: Sony's game division, makers of the elusive Playstation 2, reported losses of almost $120 million...
VIDEO-GAME VERITE Video games are pushing the boundaries of realism--and budgetary constraints. By the time Sega's Shenmue for Dreamcast hit the U.S., it cost the company nearly $80 million. Part of the challenge was to create an interactive version of a city--in this case, Yokosuka, Japan, ca. 1986--in which you can knock on virtually every door on every street. What's next? Maybe your front door...
...early word on the playing experience--outside of Sony's launch party--is not particularly enthusiastic. "There is nothing on the PS2 that I've seen that gave me that jaw-dropping feeling I got with the Sega Dreamcast last year," says Dan Clark, 29, CEO of a New Hampshire credit union and an active gamer. Madden NFL 2001 is good, he says, but no better than games currently available on Dreamcast...
Part of the reason for the underwhelming array of games, gamemakers say, is that PS2 is hard to program for. "The PS2 is definitely more powerful than Dreamcast," says John Carmack, the multimillionaire, ponytailed master gamer behind legendary shooters like Doom and Quake. "But it's less convenient to extract performance from it." This is, however, a predictable stage in the gaming cycle: it's hard for gamemakers to do their best work on a platform that isn't available yet. The best PlayStation2 games are yet to come...
...next-generation platform on the market. Sega has been on a roll lately, racking up an installed base of 5 million units. That's way below the original PlayStation but far more than anyone would have guessed when the system was launched 15 months ago. And Sega's Dreamcast is outselling Nintendo 64. Sega also has a key advantage over the competition: its Sega Net makes it the only console that currently allows for online gaming...