This is a really odd way of putting it seeing as the Dreamcast came out before the PS2 and was discontinued before the other 2 even came out.
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They had everything right with the Dreamcast, but they had no confidence. They killed it after just 1 year while sales were actually rising, and even in that time it managed to get one of the best libraries of that era. Imagine if they had actually continued to support it.
This. Management screwed up multiple times and doomed Sega to be . . . well, whatever it is they are now.
Bad Management (or "good management" if one finanically benefitted from this decision).
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Dreamcast finally let me access the internet from the privacy of my own room.
Loved the Dreamcast. Other than the lack of DVD player, I still think it was better than the PS2.
Quite a few games that were released on both consoles looked better and played more smoothly on the Dreamcast than they did on the supposedly more powerful PS2. Dave Mirra BMX is one that immediately comes to mind. It was way better on the Dreamcast.
All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.
I love my network pork! Tastes like bacon!
Deinitely never editing that
Ethernet was available as an option... It was just expensive.
I'm going to take a bold position and say they were all good consoles. It was a beautiful time for video games.
i beg to differ; dreamcast was my life during first and second year uni. i played the hell out of phantasy star online.
Firefly and Dreamcast. Two things nerds are never going to fucking get over.
"We may have been on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." --Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Damn straight!
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I'm just gonna say it. Dreamcast was my favorite console until ps4 and ps5.
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Sega’s only console success was Mega Drive/Genesis. Probably because “Sega does what Nintendon’t”. Sega managed to sell themselves as the alternative for the kids who were too cool for the SNES.
They couldn’t compete with Sony on that front. Sony was the new cool guy. Dreamcast failed because everybody was waiting for PS2.
So I’d say failed marketing killed Dreamcast.
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Umm I'm sorry to break this to you buddy but I pirated every dreamcast game I owned short of sonic adventure and Phantsy star online. That's probably why the dreamcast failed.
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Poor Sega. There just wasn't room for four consoles.
Dreamcast is still my favorite console of all time.
I still do a play through on tokyo import tuner at least once a year
The memory card ..... It was originally designed to even allow gaming on the card like a mini gameboy when disconnected. By now it would be. A steam deck that acts as a controller.... Huh reminds me of the vita.......
They do exist. For sonic adventure you could load a Chao onto it and it was basically a tamagotchi.
Dude yes I remember you could race the entire race on Wacky Racers with the controller. Felt so ahead of its time.
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