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richardhutnik on 19 May 2011
Dr.Grass said:
NightDragon83 said:

I hope the final name ends up being "Stream"... then the first thing I'll do is buy two of them and cross them just to see what happens. 


The last console was the Wii and the new one Stream. What are they smoking at Nintendo HQ?

Stream is just rumored.  If it is Stream, then you will get "Streamcast" jokes thrown at it, because people insist on comparing Nintendo's console to the Dreamcast, particularly of the Cafe console gets its own screen.  I figured, might as well get it out of the way now, when it may not happen, then face the onslaught later of the name (thus the thread).

The Dreamcast died because Sony FUD'd it, and bet right about DVD.  They tried to repeat this with the PS3, and Blu-Ray, and it didn't work.



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Dr.Grass on 19 May 2011
richardhutnik said:
Dr.Grass said:
NightDragon83 said:

I hope the final name ends up being "Stream"... then the first thing I'll do is buy two of them and cross them just to see what happens. 


The last console was the Wii and the new one Stream. What are they smoking at Nintendo HQ?

Stream is just rumored.  

 

Ya I know. I was making an off hand joke referring to the fact that when you go for a Wii you make a Stream.



Rainbow Yoshi on 19 May 2011

So this would thus be last Nintendo console?



baez1301 on 19 May 2011

the fuck, someone delete this plz



sethnintendo on 19 May 2011
RolStoppable said:
richardhutnik said:

Stream is just rumored.  If it is Stream, then you will get "Streamcast" jokes thrown at it, because people insist on comparing Nintendo's console to the Dreamcast, particularly of the Cafe console gets its own screen.  I figured, might as well get it out of the way now, when it may not happen, then face the onslaught later of the name (thus the thread).

The Dreamcast died because Sony FUD'd it, and bet right about DVD.  They tried to repeat this with the PS3, and Blu-Ray, and it didn't work.

The Dreamcast died, because Sega had lost consumer and developer trust. Before the Dreamcast Sega had released the CD and 32X addons for their 16-bitter and the Saturn all of which weren't widely supported and rather quickly abandoned, so people were cautious to buy into yet another Sega hardware. In Japan, gamers had reasons to be pissed, because the Saturn was somewhat successful there (outsold the Nintendo 64) and then got axed prematurely. On the developers side, you had EA, the biggest third party publisher, outright stating that they would not support the console at all.

Sony and PS2 hype or not, it was an uphill battle for Sega either way. Their demise only got accelerated by them selling the Dreamcast at a loss and wasting a lot of money on bad or useless marketing (commercials not showing games at all, sponsoring Arsenal London). If you didn't know what Dreamcast was, Sega sure didn't tell you what it is.

I think EA was more butt hurt that their sports division was worse than what Sega had with 2K.  2K Sports games were always far superior especially basketball and some would argue football.  Anyways, everything else about Sega's hardware downfall could be summed up with what you said.  Saturn was hard to produce games on but if you got to know it then you could make wonders.  The way Sega handled the Saturn release didn't help much either.  Loved some of the Dreamcast classics like Shenmue, Power Stone, Crazi Taxi, etc... 



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Pavolink on 19 May 2011
richardhutnik said:
Pavolink said:

Cafe is coming at the right moment for Nintendo.

As far as a name goes?  Stream was also floated about, which will then lead to Streamcast popping up.

No. Sounds like a cheap copy.



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NightDragon83 on 20 May 2011
bmmb1 said:

Well if you cross a Stream and a Wii, you get a Striim

Or a StWiim in Elmer Fudd's case lol.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.