Yeah but is the biggest risk and would be having all sega syncronized at lauch to make it work, difficult but possible, the key is having Sonic or a equivalent at launch, but Kalinske have to fought to get sonic approved.Ooooh... #1 sounds the best
But is Sega we're talking about, we could make an anime of Sega of Kalinske as the only sane man, Nakayama as a double yes-man the everyman trapped in a board have not idea what we're doing in home market(sea was arcade king for something but that not translated well to consoles...and having Nintendo,NEC and Sony as rivals never helped) and people would belittle as unrealistic...Yeah. That's also a reasonable idea.
The Master System was so unknown nobody would care, as long they can beat the Super Nintendo they would have a chance but yeah, the sega-cd was the situation was too late in japan, too early in the west(is debatable if early or late in the west too but genesis already have a fanbase thanks to moonwalker and madden) so depends... and sega fumbling it didn't help, other would be price, cheaper and promise support and benefits who make dual cartidge and CD games alongside benefits for non FMV games(and quality control with FMV ones) slowly would make the bases and make mega-cd sucessful, a port of Sonic 1 and 2(the later with extra content) would do wonders too, specially if promise Sonic 3 for the system too.If they did delay the genesis for NA it would be by 2/3 years. A long gap :/
And the less we talk about 32X the best.
2) Make Sega-CD standalone console but backward compatible with Mega Drive-Genesis, promise support like Sonic 3 being exclusive to it on the long turn and promise benefits to those who make dual Cartidge and CD versions alongside CD exclusives(and put quality control on it).
They take too much to react to NEC, nintendo too but they seems they never feared NEC.I was thinking of what you said here, Nivek.
I just realized if they did this for the West (in say 1990), then later bring it to Japan and the East as either an upgraded Mega Drive or standalone console (in 1993/1994), they would have an easier time gaining control of the needed audiences.
Goddamn, sega is just sega... but yeha is a chance, if they trully take a gamble with the system.Internally the Mega-CD project was a closely guarded secret, to the extent that Japan refused to send development CD drives to the US on fears of the project being leaked[3]. It was also boasted as being almost an entirely new and more capable system than the Mega Drive, but it quickly became apparent that in reality, it was just a mass storage device with a few extras[4].
Yeah so we can resume how make Sega-CD Sucessful.Okay.
Well EA bully himself to support maybe if they trully want to work, all others might come, convice NEC developers to jump ship and so on.I think number 1 will benefit SEGA the best. If they can third-party onboard, they'll be set.
Megadrive alone was a megahit, i would imagine would be slower but still a hit like otl, how other react is anyone guess but would be if Nintendo who did trully feared sega and show nobody mess with them, so depends.I would think if SEGA does this, we could see them being more successful.
With SEGA being more successful, Nintendo would rush Sony and Phillips to get a deal settled earlier. (Maybe, they would all work on one unit like the October 1993 deal proposed)
Then we would get an even battle between Nintendo and SEGA.