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Yakuza 5 didn't come from SEGA's change of heart. The only reason it came is because of Sony and nothing else. Do you honestly think that the next Valkyria game will come to the west? Very unlikely.
I stated that compared to Nintendo who works hard to make bug free games majority of the times, SEGA isn't the one who can be like Nintendo. When oh when was the last time that besides a few games, you often see a finished game with no bugs or crashes from SEGA games? Nintendo games when you play them are atleast finished games with nearly no bugs in them.
What evidence are you giving by saying that Nintendo plays it safe compared to SEGA where they do crap? For crying out loud, the Wii U isn't doing well for Nintendo. this year for Nintendo is a disaster because not only did they lost Satoru Iwata, things just were under huge pressure for them because they were struggling to maintain their emotions and whatnot and that has to probably explain why the games for this year weren't much. Even if SEGA games aren't crap, they still aren't great games. Tembo a mixed response and I can go on here.
To be fair to everyone here, everyone's happy that Sony's giving Yakuza 5 a chance since most people here want to at least play as many of the mainline titles as possible.
I recall a Nintendo fan arguing with me about Nintendo doing mature titles and apparently SEGA only caters to the mature audience, when that is simply not true. Fire Emblem I would class as a game many teens and young adults play, but you rarely see the games go out of their way to promote gore, sex and prostitution, so it's a fairly tame franchise (and I like that). Nintendo knows their audience and they do it so well which is why they make profits. The same goes for SEGA, they try to go for whichever audience their games cater to.
SEGA games aren't perfect, but they are never game breakingly buggy. Now, in regards to Nintendo, their own games haven't had the best record as many seem to claim. There's a glitch in some of the Pokemon games (even White/Black 2 has a bug in the double battles where if both of your pokemon faint, you can't continue as the game only lets you swap "1" pokemon). I do agree that Nintendo's record is better than many other companies, but I have found problems in some of their own games that I can't defend (and to this day, some of them I refuse to play because of said glitches such as Super Paper Mario in European copies).
Regarding the playing it safe response. Nintendo do take risks now and again, but I don't honestly blame them for using the tried and tested formula (would you go to a Butchers to buy their new Bread products?), I do believe a balance is better for both SEGA and Nintendo, to which I believe SEGA is at least getting there.
I honestly feel sorry for Nintendo due to losing a great programmer, but they do have plans to move forward and hopefully do what they do best.
I understand if you don't like SEGA games quite as much as the users here do, but they are not as bad as you would suggest. I would recommend you a few SEGA games if you want?
@FlareHabanero: Agree 100%, and it's sad to see that Segalization exists because of the lack of confidence in localisations.