Sega Dreamcast
The Sega Dreamcast the best gaming console ever... to fail so miserably. Let's be honest, if you ever played a Dreamcast it was the best console at the time, great graphics, a great game lineup, but why did it fail so badly? Lets try and see why.
Just The Facts
- The Dreamcast wasn't too shabby a gaming machine.
- The Dreamcast led to the downfall of Sega.
- Not even Sonic the hedgehog could save Dreamcast.
- Dreamcast was not the second coming of Jesus (in the U.S. anyway)
Sega Dreamcast
All that for only $40!
A Damn shame! I dont say that just because I had a Dremcast myself and am still hoping for a Dreamcast sequel to become a reality. But to be honest it was a complete and utter US commercial failure. The dreamcast had better graphics than the PS2 and some great games but it failed worse than the third terminator movie. It was really surprising that despite at the time with it's record breaking sales in the first 24 hours ( 225,132 units) that in the end it went down as one of the worst selling consoles of all time. The Dreamcast really was a great console but unfortunately fell to Sega's bad reputation of bad consoles, like the Saturn, Sega 32x, and Sega CD. You remember how the Sega Dreamcast came with online gaming and browsing, you know years before Xbox and Playstation 2 or 3. Also the memory units had mobile games on them, Fuck yeah! The game system that should have revolutionized gaming failed miserably and took down a gaming giant along with it, but as they say if your gonna do anything do it big. Now we say farewell to this console and leave you with one last thought on why it failed....
Maybe the marketing didnt help.
The Dreamcast failed because nobody was willing to take another chance with Sega after the Saturn. Its a real shame because it had some truly revolutionary games like PSO, Skies of Arcadia, Sonic Adventure, and Soul Caliber. I never got to play these games because at first they were too expensive for me. By the time the system was cheap enough to afford, the games I wanted were no longer available or were just way to over-priced. It also had to do with the fact that Sony was hyping up their PS2's ability to play dvds. Which, by the way, was going to cost MORE than an actual dvd player.
ReplySort of brief page, but that clip explained everything. I remember playing my friend's SDC. It was a good product.
ReplyThe Dreamcast failed because it didn't have a DVD player like the PS2. Damn shame too, I love and still play mine.
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