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Skullwaker on 22 March 2015
KyleeStrutt said:
That's what Famitsu says, other sources say the Dreamcast was at 1m in Japan at the time it was at 2m in the US, so I'm not sure.

Supposedly most Sega/Saturn fans were pissed off at Sega for killing the Saturn so quickly, so they didn't supported the Dreamcast, that's what I've read about, not sure if its true.

Makes sense. Sega really fucked up by releasing so many consoles in such a short time span. That's essentially what killed them.



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uran10 on 22 March 2015
Skullwaker said:
KyleeStrutt said:
That's what Famitsu says, other sources say the Dreamcast was at 1m in Japan at the time it was at 2m in the US, so I'm not sure.

Supposedly most Sega/Saturn fans were pissed off at Sega for killing the Saturn so quickly, so they didn't supported the Dreamcast, that's what I've read about, not sure if its true.

Makes sense. Sega really fucked up by releasing so many consoles in such a short time span. That's essentially what killed them.

which is what these people wanted nintendo to do when the Wii U sales slumped.



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Kresnik on 22 March 2015
uran10 said:

which is what these people wanted nintendo to do when the Wii U sales slumped.


Well they weren't going to discontinue it 2 months after launch!



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Skullwaker on 22 March 2015
uran10 said:
which is what these people wanted nintendo to do when the Wii U sales slumped.

 

Thankfully Nintendo has the common sense not to do that. Now they just need common sense in other areas going into the next gen. But I digress. 



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GamechaserBE on 22 March 2015
starrush said:
So what was it that made this console flop anyways? Sonic was a system seller on the Genesis but after that it seems like SEGA had lost their brand power. Sad really.

Not enough remasters.



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Ruler on 22 March 2015
GamechaserBE said:
starrush said:
So what was it that made this console flop anyways? Sonic was a system seller on the Genesis but after that it seems like SEGA had lost their brand power. Sad really.

Not enough remasters.


the Dreamcast had Nightmare creatures, resident evil 2 and 3, tombraider 4 and 5, dino crisis, shadowman and tons of other remasters...



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GamechaserBE on 22 March 2015
Ruler said:
GamechaserBE said:

Not enough remasters.


the Dreamcast had Nightmare creatures, resident evil 2 and 3, tombraider 4 and 5, dino crisis, shadowman and tons of other remasters...

Those were mostly ports because sony had exclusive rights till 2000 for some games listed.



GamechaserBE on 22 March 2015
Kresnik said:
Seaman. Lol.

I never owned a Dreamcast at the time, but I bought one a few years later and went back to play some games. Then I emulated some more stuff I missed later on.

It's pretty much the definition of a cult console. It had some fantastic games, and certainly a taste for every genre in there, but the software library just could not compete with the two juggernauts at the time (PS1 & PS2).

I feel it absolutely deserves the cult following it has gotten, but definitely isn't "best console ever" or anything like that.

I suspect it's heading the direction the WiiU is now, too. Lots of high-quality games which will be viewed as classics in the future, but without the software width of its competitors to make it a true classic.

Anyway, thanks for the data sharing here. Any sales data is fun to read.

PS1 yeah but PS2 had like only 50 games when DC got discontinued?

We are now so used to waiting months for the next exclusive on a console while the DC had every month a few exclusives and had some big hits coming up like Fable that did not made it.



cfin2987@gmail.com on 22 March 2015

The megadrive/genesis was so popular for so long and nobody I knew bought another sega console after it. When playstation came along it looked soooo much better so a lot of people saw sega as "old crap". Things didnt line up right and it came down to image. Many peop,e also got an N64 but the ps1 seemed to dominate the unfortunate dreamcast. It feels like it was just on the shelf at a very expensive price one day and then  it was in the clearance bin.



johnsobas on 22 March 2015
KyleeStrutt said:
Skullwaker said:
Wait, the Dreamcast only sold 650k LT in Japan? That's shocking to me, especially considering how unusually popular the Saturn was over there.

That's what Famitsu says, other sources say the Dreamcast was at 1m in Japan at the time it was at 2m in the US, so I'm not sure.

Supposedly most Sega/Saturn fans were pissed off at Sega for killing the Saturn so quickly, so they didn't supported the Dreamcast, that's what I've read about, not sure if its true.

doesn't make sense.  I always read over 2 million in Japan for several years, wikipedia says so and those software sales make no sense for a system with 650k.  I've seen the 10.6 million WW sales many times as well and that would need more than 650k from Japan.  



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