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[DaddlerTheDalek]

Look at this:

Console wars going right to the silver screen

 

If you had to choose one historical event of the gaming history to be turned into a book and a movie, you will probably choose the raging console wars between Sega and Nintendo that in the 80′s and 90′s made the industry grow in incredible ways and that gave us so many great games, an exhaustive race to overgrow their rival.

 

Blake Harris surely did think it, and so he wrote a book called “Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the battle that defined a generation“, who will be released at Americans bookstores this may, and next August in UK.

 

But not only that, Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin, of The Social Network and Moneyball fame, are on the works to bring the book into a movie, directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.  Not much more is known, except that Blake Harris is making his own take of it too as a documentary film who will coexist with the hollywood movie made by Sonic Pictures.

 

So, would yo go to the cinema to see a movie about the Sega Vs Nintendo wars?

 

 

 

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I think it's a really interesting Idea for a Movie. What do you think?

[Prince ByTor]

The saddest part is Nintendo really didn't have to do anything to win. Sega of Japan more or less self-destructed when they tried to go beyond the 16-bit (Genesis/Megadrive) era.

Although Nintendo more or less did themselves harm by screwing over Sony on the SNES CD attachment they contracted them to build, which Sony then used to make the PlayStation.

In hind site both companies weren't in the height of their intelligence as far as their corporate brain trust, but Nintendo only made that one big blunder, when SoJ constantly made many poor little decisions; kind of like watching a plane crash in hyper slow motion.

 

Yep, I'd watch it... at least once.

[Misk]

You forgot the CD-I.

[RedAuthar]

Same event.