Recuerdo cuando me regalaron mi primera consola, una Sega Megadrive con el flamante Sonic The Hedgehog. Por aquel entonces Sega competía con Nintendo por el primer puesto del mercado mundial de las consolas, como continuó haciendo hasta que en 2001 dio una patada en el culo de todos los que habíamos comprado la Dreamcast anunciando que se dedicarían exclusivamente al mercado del software.
Since then, he has not stopped lurching in the video game world, publishing and developing mainly low-quality games, sheltering himself in memories of the golden age lived years ago. Becoming junkies for easy money from mobile games like so many others, trying to make some money from the nostalgic nineties players emulating their old glories.
These days Sega has presented two new pearls in its catalog. The first of them is Zone 40, a video game console like those that were given away at the raffles at town festivals, which blatantly copies the design of the Wii and will come with 20 Megadrive games and some clones of the Wii Sports minigames. Sega if what you are trying to do is become a benchmark in the world of electronic entertainment: You’re doing it wrong!
La segunda de ellas es otra vuelta al pasado de la compañía nipona, presentando Sonic The Hedgehog 4, un nuevo plataformas del erizo azul, que se distribuirá por capítulos en Xbox Live, PS Store y en la Consola Virtual de Wii. Mucho revuelo para muy poca cosa. Los tiempos han avanzado y los gustos han cambiado, así que pretender éxito a un nuevo Sonic en 2D, posiblemente inspirados por el movimiento de Nintendo de lanzar de manera exitosa New Super Mario Bros en Wii resulta ridículo por varias razones.
Sonic is an old star whose light went out a long time ago, at the time when Sega began to prostitute him in second- and third-rate games. A movement that will please a few, but to others like me it seems like an insufficient and desperate movement.
Sega, you used to be cool.