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...with the best games, and there was nothing on show at E3 to guarantee that title will go to PlayStation 2. The biggest crowd gathered around a single game last week was at Black & White (see Briefs), which will appear on only PCs and the Sega Dreamcast...
Meanwhile, Dreamcast refuses to lie down and die. Not only is Sega about to start offering the hardware for free--provided you sign up for the $20-a-month online gaming zone Sega Net--but its catalog of games keeps going from strength to strength. Joining must-haves like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi at the show was the epic role-playing Shenmue, whose lovingly rendered hyper-realistic environment surpasses anything yet available for PlayStation 2. Throw in positive feedback for the Microsoft X-box and early buzz about the Nintendo Dolphin, and there is good reason for Sony...
...point of today's announcement. Sure, Sony made a splash last month with the Playstation2 launch in Japan. And, yeah, Microsoft grabbed headlines with 2001 promises of its own high-powered gaming console, the X-box. But now Sega is taking the Net step to shore up its Dreamcast business...
Sega of America is announcing today that it will give away $200 Dreamcast consoles to gamers who subscribe to SegaNet, a new high-speed Internet service devoted to multiplayer online gaming. Commit to two years of $21.95-per-month service and you get the console free through a rebate. The rebate plan is similar to offers from other Internet service providers such as CompuServe that can run upwards of $400 or even cover the cost...
Sony's rival, Sega, will be well entrenched with its Dreamcast console, which will have a library of 200 games by the time PlayStation 2 arrives. Even the Nintendo Dolphin, a device currently shrouded in more mystery than the Manhattan Project, will probably beat the X-box to the living room--and with a passel of popular Pokemon and Mario Bros. titles too. "People go for the games first," warns Jim Merrick, Nintendo USA's technical director. "Only then do they think about what system it comes with...