Dear Future Gamer,

Maybe, just maybe, Sega are doing things right for a change. What am I saying you wonder? Well, sticking on my thinking cap and looking back at the past, Sega are taking their time. You could look at Sega's past record and they seem to rush everything out as soon as possible. Mega-CD, 32X and the Saturn all failed, not miserably, but the mass-market consumer didn't like the bad press it was getting, and all the right moves Sony were creating.

In this day and age the last thing I want to see is huge hype about a machine and then not delivering the goods. I mean if Sega say Internet capability, ten games in the first week, a justifiable price, quality peripherals, etc, etc... I want to see those things in the first week of launch.

Hey! I've seen the Dreamcast running and loved it instantly.

Ting

FG: I agree with you Ting, I think it's far better to get everything sorted before releasing the Dreamcast and if that means delaying the launch - which is a shame - then so be it. It's not terminal and it might actually work for them in a kind of 'increased tension' way. What would be a disaster is if they launched the machine and word soon got round that half of its anticipated features didn't actually work.