At the minimum, you need the latest bleeding-edge hardware, a substantial game library to attract players, and competent business management – it’s that last part that always gets you!
When you consider all the factors that go into a successful game console, it’s a wonder any of them get off the ground at all. Should I get a WebTV, a CueCat, an Iomega Zip Drive? There were no good horses to bet on, since every one of them consistently dropped dead after two laps around the track. Meanwhile consumers scrambled from one device to another trying to buy something that would still be relevant later. On the hardware front, Moore’s Law ensured that every technology breakthrough would become obsolete in about eighteen months, while the laws of business dictated that manufacturing, launching, and marketing a new product would take a year at bare minimum (at least to do so competently, like anybody cared about that). Kids got Maserati sign-up bonuses for Silicon Valley jobs whose interview process was “name three HTML tags,” and then two years later they were fired, broke, and homeless. The Dot-Com Bubble led up to the Dot-Com Crash. The decade also saw the advent of the almighty Microsoft Windows operating system, which did to the desktop market what Godzilla does to Tokyo.
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The tech market of 1990 saw the birth of the modern Internet as we know it, with the World Wide Web invented on a NeXTcube, itself an adored cult classic computer which, like the Commodore Amiga, would die unjustly in the stormy desktop PC market. The Market Conditions That Led Sega to the Dreamcast
The final decade of the 20 th century took our regular laws of capitalism and replaced them with the most psychedelic mushrooms harvested from Alice in Wonderland. Wrong! Doubly wrong in the loony world of technology, and most impossibly wrong during the tech market of the 1990s.