Seth Rogen Directing Sega vs. Nintendo Console Wars Film

[RandV80]

Maybe the sequel could be about how Sega then squandered it's wealth and reputation with the Saturn and Dreamcast and eventually had to drop out of the console wars. Or would that be too depressing?

Dreamcast isn't fully responsible for killing SEGA's hardware business, hell the Dreamcast actually still sold more than the Saturn did in it's short lifetime. It was the Saturn's botched launch and price and 32X/SEGA CD that truly killed SEGA in the end. The SEGA Dreamcast set huge records and was going off the shelves extremely fast when it launched, but then Sony announced the PS2 and that slowed down sales, and when the PS2 launched it brought a cheap DVD player to Japan for once and that lost SEGA the Japanese market. Then SEGA of Japan fired their American CEO who had made the Dreamcast so popular for just some strange reason, which really hurt them even more. Really the problem SEGA always has had is that it's Japanese branch never got along with it's American branch, despite SEGA being originally an American company.

I would put the emphasis more on the Sega CD/32X than the Saturn. I mean these modern times people talk about how important it is to get your console out first, and with the Saturn Sega beat everyone by having a surprise early launch.

Honestly I can't say 100% for sure since I was a teen and not really on the internet, but the vibe i got at the time is that Sega created a sort of Capcom "Super Street Fighter 2 Extra Turbo Deluxe Edition!!!" reputation with it's Genesis add ons. I guess the Sega CD was okay, but they were really pushing it with the 32x. Then when Sony announced the Playstation, almost overnight Sega kind of lost its rep as the cool kid and everyone just started buying Sony without giving the Saturn a chance.

I'm saying this as someone who owned a Saturn. Early on the games were immensely better, largely because Sega could port highly polished Arcade games like Ridge Racer, Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter 2, and Virtua Cop. My opinion has always been that the Playstation games didn't catch up in terms of quality until Tekken 3, Need for Speed (the first), and FFVII came out. But before that people were all buying Playstations to begin with, and eventually it just snowballed.

Now for some fun gaming controversy no one heard of/remembered, in the first year of the Sony Playstation the gaming magazine EGM gave it's game of the year award to an unfinished/unreleased Twisted Metal. The Playstation didn't have any other worthwhile launch games at the time, so it should have been a shoe-in for one of the good Saturn games to win. But no they said **** made up some excuse and gave it to the highly hyped PlayStation game that wasn't even out yet. I mean just imagine if Gamepot or IGN gave their 2013 Game of the Year award to Titanfall, the shitstorm would be hilarious!

There were other little things EGM did too at the time. Like they'd give an extensive preview of a Playstation game, and elsewhere in the magazine you see an add stating that it's for both Playstation and Saturn. Yet in their preview article no mention of the latter.

 

[shogunblade]

I'm not certain a movie about console wars would be all that great. Even that wouldn't actually settle ANY of the arguments ever made regarding them.

If film has taught me anything, it's that a movie about Facebook Exists, and people loved it (I never finished it, or really even started it, so I can't agree/disagree with that statement). If the story is told in the right way, it could be enjoyable. I don't feel like this could be much bigger than a Pirate of Silicon Valley or a Jobs movie, as least in the 80s mullets fashion sense (You have to start from the 80s. Nintendo was an 80s company. We need a mullet quota on the film, I'm calling 5 mullets, minimum)

but it would certainly be interesting. I just wonder how funny will it be in comparison to how serious it might try to be as well.

I'm looking forward to this, though. Sign me up for it.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Console Wars - The Movie... oh how exciting that sounds, the only question that remains is if they will make it The Movie The Game, and then possibly turn that game into a movie adoption again.

Well I doubt anyone will see any part of it because Nintendo is surely gearing up their death squads, they aren't ones to appreciate fan work.

 

[Strazdas]

(known as sega genesis in land of rename everything otherwise known as US)
The decription sounds like a shitty dramamentary sort of like how Jobs was trying to praise people that arent worth the praise. Still ill probably watch it since i watch most of big movies coming out (and plenty of others, seriously i watch 3-5 movies every week).