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A trailblazer for online gaming, some players are still holding a candle for Dreamcast.
such a shame, its my fav console by far. it was way better than ps1, problem was ps2 was due to come out, a year or so later, and many just waited for that, especially after the flop that was the Saturn,. (even though it way okay, it didn't sell well,).
ps1 did sell well, a lot of those fans waited for ps2. thus, the downfall of Dreamcast,,
Every console is responsible for its own destiny, You don't go around pointing fingers at him or her or anybody, cowards do that and that ain't you! you're better than that!
Not true,
The Dreamcast falling apart was because Sega couldn't make up the pay for the increasing debt from the Sega Master System, Game Gear, 32x, Sega CD, and Sega Saturn. The Dreamcast and Genesis were profitable. But the profits weren't outpacing the debt plus interest.
It had nothing to do with anyone waiting for the PS2
You're forgetting the most important part of the story. Sega was losing so much money so fast due to their past failures, they couldn't sustain the business. Even if the PS2 did help the demise of the system, the true blame is Sega themselves
Exactly
Even Bernie Stolar R.I.P (former Sega exect) admitted in an interview past debt was what hurt the Dreamcast.
Everyone says "Sony killed Sega" when that's not even remotely true. Not just that, but most of their debt came from fighting Nintendo, not Sony
This. The only truly successful home platform Sega made was the Genesis. Every thing else flopped to varying degrees. The real culprits were Sega of Japan and Sega of America which went to war against each other for some odd reason.
I bought a DreamPi to play both Dreamcast and Saturn online! So far I'm only played with two people online with Saturn, and I need to spend more time with the Dreamcast community in order to play with them. I miss ChuChu Rocket online, good times!
P2P there's even Sega genisis games that still connect online based on this.
Hosted servers wasn't really something I saw regularly on non oc platforms until the 360 era.
The Dreamcast was easily my favorite console of all time, home of many good fighting games
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What many hoped would be a grand return to form for Sega turned out to be the final nail in the coffin of making their own hardware.
I was an early adopter of Dreamcast and never regretted it. The sheer amounts of exclusive quality games released for such a short console lifespan is amazing.
Soul Calibur (masterpiece launch title), Sonic Adventure 1+2, Metropolis Street Racer, Skies of Arcadia, Outrigger, Powerstone 2, Ferrari F355 Challenge, Sega GT, Shenmue 1+2, Resident Evil Code Veronica ) to name but a few.
Its specs were quite good for its time (Dead of Alive 2, Le Mans, Shenmue were visual showcases), the games were plenty, it came with online gaming, innovative games (Seaman, Jet Set Radio, Illbleed, Space channel 5 etc), four controller ports for Quake 3 4-player local split screen (good times), easy to program for and had a small form factor.
Having said that, the console had to face the best-selling video game console of all time PS2) which launched with DVD player integrated and the hype levels at maximum given the amazing PS1 release. It also released after Sega burned social currency with consumers and developers after Saturn's failure.
It didnt help either that may video game magazines (our source of information at that time), wrote articles dooming Dreamcast and setting the hype for PS2 long before the latter released.
Even EDGE magazine published an article that pretty much nailed the coffin for Dreamcast opting gamers to wait for PS2!
Its games library legacy passed to Xbox when it was released as an agreement to release many Sega IPs to MS console was reached (Sega GT, Panzer Dragoo Orta, Project Gotham Series, Phantasy Star online, House of the Deadm Crazy Taxi etc).
One of my favorites consoles of all time.
Was a cool system. Had some great games at launch but we all know the rest of the story. Not enough people bought it. Controllers were a little weird but overall a great system. I have the guns too.
Excellent, I'd forgotten about some of those! and thanks for not spreading this across 7 pages :)
also this, it was used for driving games, it twisted in the middle and the red buttons behaved like triggers!
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LOL, I had no idea there was an actual bowling ball accessory.