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Megalodon Commando wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Megalodon Commando wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Megalodon Commando wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Megalodon Commando wrote: I think Mario and Sonic is just another scandal for Nintendo to have ownership of Sega and it's characters. I sort of believe so to.

Nintendo can't claim full ownership of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega just won't relent. I don't know if Nintendo tried to buy him out or not.

But Nintendo permit Sega to have games on their console because they knew Sega fans will buy their Nintendo consoles.

This is why the "Console Wars" didn't end with Sega retiring from video games entirely. Nintendo saw Sega more profitable on their consoles (and perhaps a bit more humiliating for Sega at the time) than simply stamping them out.

I don't know if Nintendo has obligated Sega to no longer make consoles, I don't think they can legally do that. But I do believe Sega are not as rich as Nintendo to afford making cutting edge consoles to compete in the modern market. From what I've seen from recent Nintendo consoles, their not as cutting edge as Xbox or PlayStation. True, all the more reason why if Sega ever considers to make consoles again, it's about quality over quantidy. Nintendo is almost as dead as SEGA were. It's only a matter of time before they start discontinuing their console brands altogether. Highly unlikely. Nintendo won't go down as easy as Sega did. But their going up against Sony and Microsoft as always and basically their latest consoles are taking them in the lead. Not like they will discontinue anytime, but there is a possibility. Like one old man said. "Nothing lasts forever". Thing is, Sony and Microsoft are famed for their cutting edge graphics for their consoles... however does anyone know the flagship character to Sony or Microsoft? If anything PlayStation and XBox are known for a wide variety of third party games.

Nintendo and (until dreamcats kicked it) Sega are more for consoles that make good use of what they have. Sure the Wii or Wii U doesn't have as realistic graphics as XBox or PlayStation had. the Dreamcast also wasn't as good as PS2 or the first XBox at the time but the console was still very popular.

What I'm getting at is PlayStation 4 and XBox One are heavy hitters while Wii U is more for casuals but still have some class to appeal for players who want more out of it.

All in all, the old joke saying "PC is master race" is slowly becoming rather real which is perhaps why Sega decided for SOnic Mania and Sonic '17 to be for PC release as well.