Peter Moore: "Yo maté a Dreamcast"

El gran paso que cambió para siempre el rumbo de Sega... Peter Moore comenta en una interesante entrevista publicada en The Guardian que tras recibir el ultimatum de Sega of Japan, la decisión final de cesar la producción de Dreamcast fue suya.

“We had a tremendous 18 months. Dreamcast was on fire – we really thought that we could do it,” Moore explained. “But then we had a target from Japan that said we had to make x hundreds of millions of dollars by the holiday season and shift x millions of units of hardware, otherwise we just couldn’t sustain the business.

“So on January 31st 2001 we said Sega is leaving hardware. We were selling 50,000 units a day, then 60,000, then 100,000, but it was just not going to be enough to get the critical mass to take on the launch of PS2. Somehow I got to make that call, not the Japanese. I had to fire a lot of people, it was not a pleasant day.

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