why did the dreamcast fail again?

[darealvelle]

I remember the Dreamcast having an amazing launch.

 

[Rekkapryde]

DVD and Sony signing publishers to not put games on the system comparable to what Sony was doing to Xbox.

No, EA not fukkin with Sega was HUGE.

Easy Piracy
No EA
Sins Of The Dreamcast

that's why they failed.

Not to mention, the PS1 had game heat and being everyone's first DVD player.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I mean when discussing the failure of the dreamcast (and sega as a whole) where do you even begin?

this

 

[PS5 Pro]

He who holds EA controls the market. The Super Nintendo is/was the pinnacle of gaming if you understand evolution…

Spoiler

… that was a dope ass quote and needed to be left alone

But even the mighty mighty snes struggled vs the lesser known Sega genesis. The master system made no noise in the us (but was a dope system itself)

 

[detach]

Because it didn't have a Left stick.

 

[Paper Boi]

everything Sega did between it and the Genesis really hurt their standing

and PS2 being fire and coming with the DVD player pretty much nailed that coffin shut

 

[homiedontplaydat]

No DVD player

 

[Ziggiy]

Sega's 7 years of transgressions preceding it basically doomed the whole console. It sold historically well out the gate but they burned so many bridges with their mishandling of the Saturn that when the PS2 came around, they didn't have the necessary support from third-party developers and retailers to compete. And since Sega was deep in the red (they needed a stimmy from their former president purely out of the goodness of his heart to keep from going bankrupt), it just wasn't feasible to stay in the console business.

Dreamcast actually had superior hardware and specs to the PS2 but PS2 supporting DVDs in a time where DVD players were DUMB expensive was an underrated game changer, too. DC only supported GD-ROMs

Close thread.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I was a Sega head but once Playstation dropped it was over. Better system, better games. Stuck with Playstation ever since.

 

[Womb Raider]

DC was super underrated smh

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Its never too late to jump in, dreamcast has probably the best post-production community out of all the retro-consoles, games still being made for it today and all kinds of tricks. The ability to go online with it has even been revived

Dreamcast just recently got access to many Atmoswave games like KOF 11 and Guilty Gear Isuka

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[Animal House]

Wasn't the GD-Rom also easily bootlegged which made it really easy for people to pirate the games as well and that kind of played a part in its downfall?

yup

 

[King Static X]

SEGA needs to make a Dreamcast Mini.

 

[hotbeezie]

Cause my dad said I already had a “Nintendo”





I’m getting mad just thinking about it…