What if the Dreamcast never failed

Ever wonder in what position we would all be in if the Sega Dreamcast had not failed? Would there have been a Dreamcast2? Would Xbox exist? Well lets all find out and see what would have happened.

[imnotgoodtenglish]

The dreamcast died when it needed to.
Imagine all the crappy multiplattform ports.
It would be the psp of today.

[FrankDrebin]

What if this article was never written?

[kapedkrusader]

...why not try reading the article before ranting. It's obviously a hypothetical analysis, which by the way, was very well thought out and written. If that doesn't interest you than read a different article, there are many others in N4G or try writing one yourself.

[tee_bag242]

you dont get it do you ?

[cliffbo]

the Dreamcast was never that good a console from the start i still have one and was never impressed with it and it is a good job saga failed or we would all still be playing poor games with poor gfx's since saga failed what have they brought out that was any good on any of the new consoles very little and now they have all the time to concentrate on the games not the hardware since they dont make hardware anymore now if only nintendo could leave the hardware and make there games on the othere console ie 360 / ps3 then maybe we would see some real improvements to mario or zelda instead of these game cube copies.

[Blaze929]

What if the sky was never blue?

[Godmars290]

The Dreamcast didn't fail - Sega did.

They wasted all the money made with the Genesis on all of the add-ons and the Saturn, then overproduced the Dreamcast. The release of the PS2 caused a minor sales slump and stall, and Sega lacked the revenue - weren't getting 3rd party support and income - so they derailed.

Maybe if they had simply moved onto the Saturn, ignored Genesis add-ons, they would have been in a better position, but they weren't.

Get over it already.

[Marceles]

I think Sega did a good job with what they had lol. They already had a horrible reputation with the Sega CD, 32X, Sega Nomad...god what were they thinking. Anyways I don't think they did such a bad job at selling the Dreamcast. It's just that Sony was on top of their game and everyone was waiting for them. It got to a point where the Dreamcast was trying to keep up with the PS1. There was NOTHING Sega could do about it, not to mention there was Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube on the market. 4 was a crowd.

[Elven6]

The PS2 didn't cause a minor slump, the Dreamcast was outselling the PS2 at launch because Sony didn't have enough hardware on hand to fill the demand. In the long term it might have impacted them.

The Genesis add ons despite being revolutionary in their own respects were a big mistake, Sega should have just saved all those ideas for the Saturn, which I guess they kind of did but the fact that the add ons were put into production didn't help.

[dreamcast]

"The Dreamcast didn't fail - Sega did"

Agreed 100%

[Dogswithguns]

The Dreamcast didn't fail - Sega did.
You said it, man.... but anyway, the Dreamcast would've been my only favorite system ever, I loved it so much at the time. and I still do til these days.

[ZombieAutopsy]

MS and SEGA working together??? I think i actually would of liked that and prolly would of have MS a better position in Japan

Id say the main fault with the DC was how easy it was to pirate and the fact Sony came in really strong with the Ps2 especially with the huge following the Ps1 had.

[Godmars290]

At one point Sega was looking to be bought out by MS, but MS turned them down at the last minute. Ending up buying up most of Sega's US assets, which included Peter Moore.

[Elven6]

It was the other way around, I believe Microsoft wanted to buy Sega but Sega decided not to sell, to anyone. Unfortunate decision in my opinion because CSK shut down a few years later and Sega was in jeopardy, and lets face it, Sammy certainly isn't helping Sega like CSK did.

[OGharryjoysticks]

I don't think it did. The Dreamcast is the 360. It has those sharp colors to the graphics. It sells the essentials as add-ons but instead of memory cards and rumble it's wi-fi, HDD's, and online multiplayer. It has its cult following. The list goes on...

Only this time SEGA has MS money and MS money can't fail.

[TheSmoothCriminal]

Sega lost, the dream cast I think needs to be picked up by another company.

[Its_The_Truth]

HAHAHA BUT IT DID SO GET OVER IT SONY IS #1 (:

Its_The_Truth

[Relientk77]

Things would be different

[tee_bag242]

The Dreamcast had and still has one of THE best and WIDEST range of arcade games, perfect ports, lightgun games included, online, even a god dam web browser!! and shenmue. I bet alot of ppl dont know many games can run native in 480p through VGA-Component. Consider yourself blessed if you still have a working dreamcast!

I'd sit up and take notice if Sega ever brought out somemore hardware

[nix]

well... Mart would have never turned out this bitter. lol.

he hates sony because he thinks sony killed dreamcast. but then again, he's just a small fly in this big world of gaming. and thank god for that.

[saimcheeda]

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[StrboyM]

I could fly? and dogs could talk....my GF would be pissed at what he would tell her he sees when I have other women over, but I'd just jump out the window and escape into outer space..weeeeee

[gta_cb]

most likely try to fly out the window but miss and just hit into the wall and go unconscious =D

[gta_cb]

haha someone disagreed with me, come on im only messing =)

[StrboyM]

mostly at your disagree....that means someone out here cares....

[rohail88]

would have been fewer bots!

[keysy420]

dreacast never got its own idenity. take the ps3 its been struggling against the 360 trying to develop its own idenity. people like to identify the 360 as the hd media hub but that's not the case. the 360 is a game machine that you pay to connect to the internet were you can do a bunch of things. the ps3 is a media hub that plays games. so it's been taking the ps3 to develop its own idenity and it has been hurting the ps3. the 360 has held the ps3 back in one account and that is that everything is compared to the 360. the ps2 was always compared to the dreamcast, and dreamcst could never sperate themselves.

[111111]

...the console never failed. None of the sega consoles ever did.
There are so many great games, timeless gems indeed for each and everyone of them.
What if peter moore didnt fail? Gaming would be a brighter. happier place of course.

[deno]

If sega was around today as hardware company, I wouldn't be playing crappy shooters and games that all look alike. This generation is garbage, gaming has gone pop mainstream, half of you on this website have bad taste.

[click 2 get virus]

i think rockstar killed the dreamcast,because when gta3 came to the ps2, all eyes was on sony

[kaveti6616]

Sega as a company would do best to try and be bought out by either Sony or Microsoft. Microsoft needs first party studios, and Sega needs to move forward. Sega right now is making Yakuza games in Japan, and publishing some really obscure games and doing poor ports. I remember Sega actually had a great racing game on the Xbox called Sega GT 2002. It looked very good and the career mode was well done. I think Sega can do a lot of great games if they stick to the American market.

[kraze07]

The Dreamcast didn't fail. What if you came up with a better title for this article?