I really enjoyed this video from Matt. Detailed and entertaining.
Sega happened. That's what! DC was such an awesome system, but the past will bite you eventually.
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Dreamcast got a second life for me after it was already dead and I learned I could burn whatever game I wanted, haha.
Hello, FBI? This one right here.Dreamcast got a second life for me after it was already dead and I learned I could burn whatever game I wanted, haha.
Didn't that destroy your DC after awhile?Dreamcast got a second life for me after it was already dead and I learned I could burn whatever game I wanted, haha.
I can't watch the video now, but for me it was a combination of Sega's poor reputation following the sega cd/32x/saturn, Sony's marketing muscle, and people wanting a dvd player. EA didn't help either.
I only burned a boot disc to bypass the region locking when I started to import DC games.To be honest, I don't know anyone that had the DC and DIDN'T have burned copies. Especially after console died. Making copies was way too simple IIRC.
Really sad to reflect as it was genuinely the end of that arcade era and so many good Sega inhouse studios crumbled to dust years later. AM2, Amusement Vision, Smilebit, Sega Rosso, Hitmaker, The decent Sonic Team who made Samba de Amigo and PSO. What a waste.
I mean that isn't wrong. The DC came out like gangbusters and the PS2's initial software library was really weak that first year (remember Bouncer and Fantavision, people actually bought that crap at launch). It wasn't until 2001 when the floodgates really opened and we got an embarrassment of software afterwards.The funny thing was, everyone in gaming was trying to push the Dreamcast. EGM for example ran excellent articles basically arguing to gamers that you could buy a Dreamcast which already had 30-40 excellent games, or wait on a PS2 which probably wouldn't have that many games for several years. (generously) It just didn't take hold for enough people though.
It's funny how in the West piracy is given as a reason for the Dreamcast's lack of failure, whereas when I was growing up in Abu Dhabi it was the lack of piracy that was an issue. Everyone had modded PlayStations and barely anyone I knew had legit copies of games. I was the weirdo with the Dreamcast, but even when the system was cracked, my friends were put off by (at first) needing to put in a boot disc before being able to play pirate copies of games.
I would assume that these companies don't really care about people buying the consoles as much as buying the games.
Yeah, that is true, hardware is often sold at cost or even at a loss. My point was more that I was shocked when years later I saw that being given as a reason for the Dreamcast's demise as it was opposite to my experience growing up.
Not by the time the DC came out. They realized they had lost the entire rest of the world with Saturn and decided to go west heavy and push Sonic and sports titles with the DC. It was too little too late against the PS2 juggernaut but it was definitely their plan.Wasn't there in-fighting between different Sega regional divisions?
also, PS2
I have a friend who was a manager of a GameStop (maybe still Funcoland at the time). He swears up and down that at his location when Sega of Japan pulled the plug on the system, Dreamcast games were getting the most pre-orders of any system and the software was selling extremely well on the whole.
It wasn't going to do well in Japan, and ultimately the PlayStation 2 was going to crush it like every other system of that generation. But if Sega of Japan and their US branch had not been at odds with one another, the Dreamcast still probably could have continued to do okay in the West. It certainly would have done better then the GameCube.
Lmao you're right. They literally never recovered from that. NBA 2K was one do the games that inspired me to ask for a Dreamcast for Christmas of 99. That shit felt like real life.its probably karma that 2K is essentially murdering NBA Live on a yearly basis. So hard that Live sometimes even sits out a few years.
It was mostly the PS2 and Sega not being able to weather any more setbacks.
Sony kicked everyone's ass that generation. The hype for the PS2 was unlike anything before or since.