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[goodcow]

Admist my transferring of several hundred old FOX tapes to DVD, I found this report I recorded as well... it's from 2000 on CNBC, prior to the PS2 launch, and Sega had just reached the "promise land of two million sell-throughs." Nice inside look at Sega's offices then, and just good for archival purposes in general.

www.goodcowfilms.com/web/cnbc_sega_dreamcast_report_2000.avi
15.5 megs (DivX6)

 

[Widfara]

why is two million sell-throughs a promise land?

 

[goodcow]

why is two million sell-throughs a promise land?

Ask whoever wrote the report, not me.

 

[GhaleonEB]

why is two million sell-throughs a promise land?

Because it's a nice round number.

 

[Tenacious-V]

That brought back memories.

 

[Yusaku]

I like how they butcher almost every game title, and act like "Dreamcast" is the name of the company and not the console.

 

[temp]

I am the COO of Dreamcast!

 

[Beer Monkey]

act like "Dreamcast" is the name of the company and not the console.

Well, that's pretty much what Sega wanted.

 

[stewy]

Yeah, wasn't there talk of Sega changing their name to Dreamcast at one point? I do remember that they were supposed to be called Sega.com for a while there, too.

 

[Yusaku]

I have a hard time believing that Sega would abandon and extremely recognizable brand name.

 

[DCX]

I have a hard time believing that Sega would abandon and extremely recognizable brand name.

At the time with the way Saturn made Sega a very negative name they tried to distance themselves from the Sega name, which led to the Dreamcast Logo and name having nothing to do with Sega. Sega then changed the logo to Sega @ Dreamcast but still didn't use the traditional SEGA font/logo.

DCX

 

[levious]

"sega" was still on the console itself, just like their other consoles. I really think the whole idea of Sega trying to distance the Dreamcast from the name "Sega" was just people jumping to conclusions... unless you have quotes from sega people saying as much.

 

[Skin]

"sega" was still on the console itself, just like their other consoles. I really think the whole idea of Sega trying to distance the Dreamcast from the name "Sega" was just people jumping to conclusions... unless you have quotes from sega people saying as much.

I remember reading it also in a magazine a few years back. The Sega logo was always heavily supported on their consoles and even in the console names. It was always Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and then not Sega Dreamcast, but just Dreamcast. My guess has always been that they weren't ashamed of the Sega name or anything, but just really liked the name Dreamcast and that they were going to stick with it and turn it into a brandname like Sony has done with Playstation. They don't say Sony Playstation in the commercials, they say Playstation. Microsoft has also picked up that idea. Only Nintendo still uses their company name in their console names.

 

[Liquid]

good god heather hawkins is hot