I think it would have, personally. Sega management might have been concerned about the violence, but if they ahd been comfortable in their position for hardware they might have been less conservative, more willing to greenlight it earlier.
The character team mechanic was awesome in Advance 3! It's a shame that mechanic never came back.
I’ve always wondered why they didn’t bring it back. Maybe it was too complex for casual players? Or maybe the devs felt it was too tied to the GBA’s era.
They probably just see it as Advance 3's gimmick, and not a mechanic to reuse in future titles.
That’s a solid observation. Sonic Advance 3’s team mechanic was likely designed as a unique selling point for that specific title, rather than a foundational system for future games. Sonic Team has a history of introducing innovative mechanics, like the partner system in Advance 3, the formation switching in Sonic Heroes, or the parkour in Sonic Lost World, but often treats them as standalone experiments.
Why SEGA gotta be like that?
Not only the colours, the overall shape of both controllers is very similar.
I happen to own that gamepadDreamcast games were mostly built for their own OS using their internal SDK. Sega's console didn't run an OS, and deferred to whatever was on the game disc being booted. Only a couple of games were built to use Windows CE.
Porting multiplatform games over to Xbox was easier moreso because the pipeline was built around Direct X and it ran conventional PC gaming hardware, rather than due to having worked with Sega while prototyping the Dreamcast hardware.
Sega screwed over 3dfx, and arguably Microsoft with the Dreamcast, and then they rejected acquisition and thought they were still worth something while talking to Microsoft.
The Xbox could be more strongly rooted in the Dreamcast, if they didn't already have games and peripherals like Sidewinder on PC. In reality, Sega had to get out of the way, because Xbox would have destroyed them.
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I'm still wondering why the 360 didn't keep the Black and White buttons as well as the rest...
I sincerely doubt it.
Christ, i remember i knew someone who had one of those to play games on Steam, mainly Jet Set Radio. And i agree on the last part, Sega were already been gutted by Sony and Microsoft would at been the final blow for them.Dreamcast games were mostly built for their own OS using their internal SDK. Sega's console didn't run an OS, and deferred to whatever was on the game disc being booted. Only a couple of games were built to use Windows CE.
Porting multiplatform games over to Xbox was easier moreso because the pipeline was built around Direct X and it ran conventional PC gaming hardware, rather than due to having worked with Sega while prototyping the Dreamcast hardware.
Sega screwed over 3dfx, and arguably Microsoft with the Dreamcast, and then they rejected acquisition and thought they were still worth something while talking to Microsoft.
The Xbox could be more strongly rooted in the Dreamcast, if they didn't already have games and peripherals like Sidewinder on PC. In reality, Sega had to get out of the way, because Xbox would have destroyed them.
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Sega kinda killed themselves already with several mismanagement.
That too, The 32X and Saturn let to that path of mismanagement. Plus Sega of America and Sega of Japan fighting eachother too.
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