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...forget about Sega" seems to be the 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...
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...
...history of console wars, however, is on Microsoft's side. Video gamers are such fickle creatures that no company has ever dominated the market for more than one generation of machines. Atari was supplanted by Sega, Sega nudged out by Nintendo, and Nintendo blown away by a company that had never before produced a games box: Sony. Indeed, Microsoft execs love to talk about how the PlayStation was seen as a no-hoper--until it caught the imagination of games developers and took off like a particularly speedy Crash Bandicoot. It's no accident that Microsoft is trying...
Mighty behemoths both, Microsoft and Sony have a lot of face to lose in this battle. It's always possible that they could share the bulk of the market, with Sega and Nintendo scrambling for leftovers. But the X-box has a good shot at success, despite the games handicap. Because it never has been a player in the console market, Microsoft is flying almost completely below the gaming press's radar. The Evil Empire has somehow morphed into the Rebel Alliance: plucky little engineers armed with blowtorches. It's going to be a long, sleepless...
...know young people commit more crimes than older folks, so the baby boomers' grandchildren should stop playing Sega and start menacing the rest of us any day now. But that indicator too is unreliable. Many of these "echo boom" youngsters reached their teens during the 1990s, yet crime still plummeted. Experts say the good economy gave these kids something to do (even if it was just taking orders at McDonald's instead of robbing it). More important, the decline of crack removed a crime-soaked job opportunity...