| johnsobas said:
Dreamcast had better games than the PS2 until probably late 2003 and even that is arguable. The dreamcast did fine against the PS1, it was the PS2 that killed it and that was despite the great games on DC not because of them. DVD had a lot to do with it too. |
| GamechaserBE said:
PS1 yeah but PS2 had like only 50 games when DC got discontinued? |
I'm not talking about at the time PS2 released, I'm talking about looking back at the console. It gets revered as being much better than it actually was. Don't get me wrong - I think it had a great library and deserved to do better than it did, but it's nowhere near the praise it gets for its stellar library.
This post sums it up better than I did:
| NightDragon83 said: The Dreamcast is simultaneously the most underrated and overrated console of all time. It was a shame it wasn't supported as well as it should have been, and certainly didn't deserve to die the quick death that it did. But nowadays, people put on their nostalgia goggles and turn the settings up to 11 when waxing poetic about how amazing the Dreamcast supposedly was and how it was the be all, end all of "true" gaming consoles. Hate to ruin the nostalgia trip, but the Dreamcast was essentially what the N64 would have been if it were disc-based with more VRAM. And other than a handful of cult classics and the stellar line of SEGA Sports titles, the Dreamcast's overall software library is pretty mediocre compared to the other consoles of its time. It gets mega brownie points for being the first major console to bring online gaming to the living room here in the States, but the PS2 and especially the Xbox with XBL did it so much better that everyone forgot about SEGA Net pretty much immediately after the DC was dead. |
