Sega, Nintendo, and Namco's Triforce Arcade Platform: A Response to Arcade Industry Decline

Without next-generation hype pushing players into the arcade, powerful but expensive arcade machines were no longer sustainable to develop.

Rather than turning around the decline of the arcade, the cheaper hardware may have helped accelerate it.

Sega teamed up with Nintendo to develop a GameCube-based arcade platform. Bolstering their ranks was Namco, another coin-op stalwart with tons of arcade veterans.

Three companies, one mission: Triforce.

The home market was lost, but the languishing arcade scene presented Sega with an opportunity.