what to do?
sega's answer?..peripherals!
there was the sega cd which sat alongside the genesis and took forever to load games that had poor resolution.
then there was the sega 32x, an oblong mushroom-shaped add-on that snapped right into the genesis' slot, so that 32x games could be played, thus rendering the 16-bit genesis a 32 bit system.
that was then, this is now.
sega doesnt make consoles anymore.
but microsoft does, and their xbox systems seem to conjure up memories of the sega genesis for me.
why?
well, like sega, microsoft seems to be having its own form of such events.
they introduced the xbox in fall of 2001. yes, it can play dvds,.but you need to shell out 30 clams to buy the dvd playback kit.
along comes the 360 and it doesnt have enough storage on its ram...what to do? make a black model with more ram, and call it the elite model.
there are people that own 360 that want to watch hd-dvds..what to do?...bring out an hd-dvd add-on peripheral and charge about 200 bucks for it.
the genesis has 3 different models of the same system: genesis, genesis 2, and the small genesis 3. whereas the xbox itself never had any other models for it, but the 360 has the original model (which looks a lot like an under-the-counter black & decker kitchen appliance), and then the new black elite 360.
are you seeing any connections here between the xbox and the genesis??
This post has been edited by mireaux7: 06 May 2007 - 12:23 PM