I'm just gonna say it. Dreamcast was my favorite console until ps4 and ps5.
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All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.
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Firefly and Dreamcast. Two things nerds are never going to fucking get over.
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The only console piracy massacred
Hey.......I still remember the release date. 9/9/99.
Plus, you could use your dreamcast to talk to a fish. An insulting sarcastic fish.....but the game was narrated by Leonard Nemoy. Sometimes he'd insult you too.....
Seaman is one of those games that I'm intentionally not replaying, because it absolutely blew my mind when I was ten years old, and I just want to leave it that way. I'm guessing the tricks they used to mimic conversation would be very obvious to me now, but back then it seemed completely real. That game turned your CRT TV into a fish tank with an honest to god talking fish inside of it... and Spock gave you updates about how he was doing when you checked on him after school.
avgn has a pretty good episode on this
Its all fun and games until a frog starts asking about your views on Ronald Reagan
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I really like my Dreamcast!
Me too; in fact I have two games for it on the way right now! Games made in the last few years! Intrepid Izzy and Postal.
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.
It's not that they had no confidence. It's that they took Nintendos approach on hardware. Sell low at a loss, and make the money on software.
Problem is, you could pirate every single game on dreamcast. Just get a legit copy of the game (renting, buying and returning, borrow from a friend), and have a CD burner.
Then you could make a 1:1 copy of the game in roughly an hour. As the year 2000 went on, websites even made it easier by posting the game files for download. If you didn't have broadband (many didn't at the time. Most had 56k), you could go to your local library and carry a USB stick.
So every console sold cost them money. And the software was performing abysmally. Plus, PS2 was right around the corner. XBox was an unknown, and Gamecube was assumed to do better than it did.
From a console war perspective, the year 2001 may have been the most competitive year EVER for video games.
I'm not sure where you're getting that Nintendo sells at a loss. They don't have amazing margins on hardware, but they don't like selling at a loss. IIRC, commodity prices and a price drop meant the GameCube was briefly sold at a loss, but it wasn't long, and it wasn't by much.
Whatever else you can say about Nintendo, they are really good at managing manufacturing costs.
Why did the playstation not have the same piracy problem?
There's a little wiggle track burned into PSX discs that's impossible to duplicate with burners, and it won't boot up unless it sees that. There's workarounds that eventually came out, but console copy protection doesn't have to last forever. It only has to last most of its primary life until the next gen comes out, and PSX managed that.
Everyone knew a shady guy who promised to mod your PlayStation to play burned games, but few wanted to risk turning their console into a brick.
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Was probably more likely just that they couldn't afford the initial loss anymore because the lenders or shareholders got scared of the PS2 and xbox when they were announced.
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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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There are so many reasons why it failed but we all love it so.
And most of them just seem unlucky
I loved the dreamcast!
I have so many fond memories of it.
MVC2, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio. Loads of fun times had!
Wtf who doesn't mention Power stone 2. Arguably the best pickup brawler game ever made and still holds that title.
Record of Lodoss and Evolution are also top tier.
Project justice 2 was my jam and I still regard it as a great fighting game that deserves a remake or an anime at least!
Power Stone (both) were great but inevitably there's always the one person who hangs back and avoids combat to stealthily get all the stones to transform, making it unfun for casual or new players.
I know because I was that person. I was a big fan of a little known game called Armada on the DC, as well as Jambo Safari and the 2k Sports games.
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