Sega

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And I think Roto's wrong about them doing fine. After merging with Sammy (Sammy, right?) a few years ago, they've really gone downhill. ty games, for the most part, and there's no sign of them pulling out of the rut. There's the ocassional gem like Virtua Fighter 5, but when they keep pumping out one ty Sonic game after another, and come up with subpar new franchises, I have to wonder if there's much hope left.

The critical between Sonic and Virtua fighter is that one of them was developed by Sonic Team and the other by AM2.

AM2 are currently, by far, the greatest asset Sega have. Even with Yu Suzuki's reduced role. They've been pretty much pumping out consistantly great arcade style games for the entire lifespan of Sega.

Sonic Team, however, havn't made a decent game since NiGHTS.

The Sonic Advance games were good and Sonic Rush is great.

Sonic Advance 3, almost got it right. None of them are really on par with the original games though.

I don't think the market could handle four major consoles and since each console manufacturer is doing alright by some standard, I doubt Sega is even considering entering the console race any time soon. Or ever.

I was under the impression that Sega's current role was to place itself as one of the top 3 publishers. Where they go from there is up for interpretation, however if there was a massive surge in popularity and the market was right, I could definatly see them trying again.