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22 published records
“Sega and its Genesis, as it was known in North America, has battled Nintendo and the Super NES to basically a tie in the US home console market, which really in practice, if you go listen to our Nintendo series, was beating the pants off of Nintendo.”
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“Just remarkable storytelling. (2) I'm keeping a close eye, and I suspect many of you are as well.”
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“I think that was in 1984. They would go on to take it public, I think, in 1988 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.”
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“One of the original founders from back in the day, a guy named David Rosen, and a Japanese entrepreneur of a company Sega had acquired named Hayao Nakayama, engineer a management buyout of Sega for the grand total price—I don't know if this is in PitchBook—of $38 million.”
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“In fact, it was, I believe, in one of the original Apple iPhone OS App Store keynotes to show off what games you could make and what types of experiences you could do on this device.”
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“After the potential Sony partnership that we referenced earlier fell apart between Sega and Sony, he came back to Sega of Japan with a pitch saying, I just met with Jim Clark, I really think we should do something with SGI, I think our next generation console should be powered by SGI.”
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“I believe, personally, in 2001, the writing was on the wall, he was coming to the end of his life, he actually forgave Sega’s debts to him ahead of his death, and returned $695 million worth of Sega and CSK stock, which basically was the bridge that Sega needed to transition a massive shift from the Sega that we've been talking about this whole episode to just being the game creator that they are today.”
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“I think the documentary is 10 years old at this point, but a pretty special view into their process.”
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“My take on this whole thing is that Sonic was a one trick pony, and that they never really found an effective way to expand the franchise.”
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“Most people in the industry, I think, would agree that this is the greatest moment in all of video game industry history.”
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“David, I have a couple of stories that I don't think you know about how they made that transition. I'm curious to know if I will stump you with that or not.”
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“I think there's a couple of interesting things to talk about in the playbook, and then we have a fun way to end the episode.”
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“Because of the home video game crash in America, video games in general just became this toxic asset that nobody wanted to own, especially Paramount and Warner Brothers was divesting Atari.”
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“The home systems, even the NES, as amazingly groundbreaking as it was, because the console cycles have to be designed to last so long, that's not where the latest cutting edge stuff is.”
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“Ultimately, despite all this hand wringing over these games and everything coming out with these CD add-ons, there is a fundamental problem with what Sega is doing here, and that is that add-on technology for consoles is never really a good idea because the business model of the video game console industry is a razor and blades model.”
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“The other version is both way more charitable to Sega, the parent company in Japan, and also I think way more interesting in terms of lessons we can take from it, so let's tell it.”
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“The arcade industry is lost to history now because, basically, it doesn't exist anymore, but it was bigger than the home console industry.”
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“Sega has got hundreds of these arcades that they are just printing cash out of because they're making money from selling the cabinets to their own arcades, other arcades, and then the arcades themselves are hugely profitable businesses.”
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“I want to re-carveout your carve out from a couple episodes of Daryl Morey on Invest Like the Best. I listened to it after you recommended it.”
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“He's basically doing this because Japan has said, either you are doing this, or we will find a new CEO for Sega of America who can do this.”
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“Sega just completely ruined all of their holiday season planning because for retailers, Q4 is everything.”
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“That last wave is all the developers realizing, oh, my God, we are going to print money because there's going to be so many people buying this thing.”
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