/vr/ - Retro Games

>Sonic X-Treme actually releases on time for the 1996 Holiday season
>gets savaged in almost every games magazine for being Bug! 2, a few say it's an alright game but not very exciting
>Nintendo releases an ad comparing Super Mario 64 to Sonic X-Treme much like Sega did for Super Mario World to Sonic 1
>N64 sales do better than normal because of people thinking Super Mario 64 looks great when compared to this gimmicky outdated trash
>tensions increase even more at Sega of Japan, Yuji Naka gets fucking pissed that these retarded gaijins are ruining the public perception of their series

it would have been shit lmao
why didnt they just cancel it after sm64 was first revealed? they must have known for a fact they couldnt compete. all of the dev time after that point was a total waste of time and money

>game was in development for YEARS
>this was the best they could show for it at E3 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdBKq7o6RTE
How fucking embarrassing. I would have just not shown anything at all at that point. The fucking computer window IS IN THE FRAME. If there's a less professional and unfinished promo video for any other game, I haven't seen it.

I just wonder why Sega didn't immediately tell the dev team on X-treme to completely start over with a good concept this time after the first footage of Super Mario 64 got out there. X-treme instantly looked like dated garbage. So why did the development continue to the point that it almost killed a man if it was literally pointless? The game would have been underwhelming at best even if it were released in time for Christmas 1996, no possible way it would have really helped the Saturn's sales all that much. Why did Sega just let the game keep going?
Digging into the X-treme story just makes me think that Sega deserved to go down, the company was a complete fucking mess of horrible ideas.