Jensen Huang: SEGA saved and invested in NVidia in early days. Had SEGA kept their NVidia shares, today they would be worth one trillion dollar
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DeepEnigma
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Imagine a trillion dollar Sega still in the console business.
Kotaro
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Imagine a trillion dollar Sega still in the console business.
yup, damn if Sega was worth one trilllion dollar, they could buy Sony, Nintendo, and Valve/Steam and have gaming industry all for themselves
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Gamer_By_Proxy
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There's probably tons of bitcoin stories like this. People that sold at like the first profit.
Witchilich
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Even during the Master System days. The first Alex Kidd was better than Super Mario Bros but then they started copying Mario with later games.
RetroGamingUK
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When did Sega sell their shares?
Gaiff
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Nah. Biggest one was rejecting my idea of an M-rated Sonic game set in a post-apocalyptic hellhole where Shadow goes on a rampage and takes revenge on Eggman for the murder of his friends. It would have been full of violence, swearing, darkness, and hedgehog sex.
Would have been a hit for sure and saved the Dreamcast.
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Kotaro
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winjer
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Back in the early 2000 nvidia started negotiations to buy 3Dfx and bought them is 2002.
They were already the graphics leaders in the early 2000s.
And would soon have the first Xbox contract and later the PS3 contract.
SkylineRKR
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Nvidia was already going to be big when y2k started. I remember Geforce was supposed to be the must have card late 1999. It was hyped up as the videocard that would trounce the likes of Voodoo etc. We stepped in when GF2 came out, I think this was late 2000 or so. It was seen as the pinnacle of videocards and afaik already the biggest. They kind of went to shit after Geforce 4 was on the way out, the FX line bombed and ATI was making waves with Radeon.
But as far as I am concerned, Nvidia was already quite the hype from early 2000.
MS would sign them for their first Xbox console as well.
But as far as I am concerned, Nvidia was already quite the hype from early 2000.
MS would sign them for their first Xbox console as well.
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HerjansEagleFeeder
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Man, they could've released a new console every 6 months and still be around designing the next expansion pack or addon for whatever 17 consoles they have running simultaneously.
Team Skoda
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Once again proof that SEGA was too far ahead of the times.
Magic Carpet
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Alternate timeline Sega RTX 5090. Gotta go fast!
Witchilich
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Sega should have bought AMD at its peak. We truly would have gotten a collab between Sony and Sega.
mckmas8808
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right after NVidia IPO, they sold it for $300 million dollar
OH WOW!!! I can see why they did though. Turning $5 million, into $300 Million is a huge amount of profit.
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diffusionx
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there are also sorts of reasons why a company doesn't operate in this way.
Apple invested in ARM early on, imagine if they kept that, they would basically own the entire computing industry. But again that's not how these companies work.
Huang is getting a little big for his britches.
Apple invested in ARM early on, imagine if they kept that, they would basically own the entire computing industry. But again that's not how these companies work.
Huang is getting a little big for his britches.
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Kotaro
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yep, 99.99% people would take profit after 6000% gain, they could have kept some though, even little portion would worth billions now
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Gp1
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I've always knew that they bet in Nvidia in the Saturn era, not that they receivef shares as a compensation for it.
I'm fact at the time Nvidia would something close to a "Startup" before the late 90's with TnT/TnT 2 and GeForce 1-2 era.
People tends to forget that there were a dozen of "mainstream players" doing GPUs at that time. (3dfx, Nvidia, Ati, S3, Cirrus, Matrox, Rendition, Diamond, Imagination etc.)
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Windom Earle
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Damn I really need to watch that interview.
Tiago Rodrigues
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Yeah i mean knowing what we now know it's easy to say "what a terrible decision" but they had no idea Nvidia would turn into what it is right now lol.
Horseganador
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If Sega didn't make these kinds of mistakes over and over again, it wouldn't be Sega. It has always been a company with a lot of talent but very poorly managed.
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Damn thats a crazy story, movie worthy really.
They got 300 million from that 5 million dollar investment. Still insane, but, it could have been 1 trillion.
Sometimes being nice pays off. Even in business.
They got 300 million from that 5 million dollar investment. Still insane, but, it could have been 1 trillion.
Sometimes being nice pays off. Even in business.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Sega!
LectureMaster
Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
kpopSuperstar
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TropicanaTwista
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I get this is off topic from the OP, but this always reminds me of this story
Truly don't know how one could live with themselves after this.
Witchilich
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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He should be more worried of his own company being worth even a trillion in five years when this bubble pops spectacularly (hopefully).
With the way things are trending for RAM, NAND and associated product pricing, arcades might actually be able to make something of a comeback. There will be a growing slice of gamers who want top-end graphics and feedback experiences natively at affordable prices, and those people are being priced out of the PC gaming market (and potentially the console market if trends continue).
Maybe something closer to the PC cafes in parts of Asia will grow in prominence elsewhere, with business models lifted from parts of the arcade market as we once knew it, and bigger investment into motion and full-body feedback for immersive experiences alongside top of the highest-end visuals & audio systems.
With the way things are trending for RAM, NAND and associated product pricing, arcades might actually be able to make something of a comeback. There will be a growing slice of gamers who want top-end graphics and feedback experiences natively at affordable prices, and those people are being priced out of the PC gaming market (and potentially the console market if trends continue).
Maybe something closer to the PC cafes in parts of Asia will grow in prominence elsewhere, with business models lifted from parts of the arcade market as we once knew it, and bigger investment into motion and full-body feedback for immersive experiences alongside top of the highest-end visuals & audio systems.
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MacReady13
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Yep. Instead we have a 3.5 trillion dollar Microsoft stepping out of the console business. What a fucking waste.Imagine a trillion dollar Sega still in the console business.
Image if the whole money of the world was equally shared to the people and we can't be the richer ones until there aren't anymore poor people.
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Ziglax
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