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Mnementh on 12 September 2019

Dreamcast could nearly have been my entrance into console gaming. A friend had a Dreamcast and it was great. We played Dead or Alive and it was a blast. He had also some RPGs, which name I don't remember, Soul Calibur, RE Veronica and other stuff. This certainly looked great. I really considered getting one myself. And then Sega dropped the hardware business. So I thought, well then not. I didn't get near another console until the Wii. I think sometimes what would have been in my gaming habits, if I had bite with the Dreamcast back then. I doubt I would've regret it, because the DC was short lived, but it had great games.

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SammyGiireal on 12 September 2019
Mnementh said:

Dreamcast could nearly have been my entrance into console gaming. A friend had a Dreamcast and it was great. We played Dead or Alive and it was a blast. He had also some RPGs, which name I don't remember, Soul Calibur, RE Veronica and other stuff. This certainly looked great. I really considered getting one myself. And then Sega dropped the hardware business. So I thought, well then not. I didn't get near another console until the Wii. I think sometimes what would have been in my gaming habits, if I had bite with the Dreamcast back then. I doubt I would've regret it, because the DC was short lived, but it had great games.

Yeah the constant doomsday rumors about Sega those days also kept alot of people from diving into the system. The rumors did turn out to be true, however I don't regret my purchase (I agree you wouldn't have either), I was playing next gen games a year before anyone was on a PS2 and I remember owning a PS2 and having to way almost a year before the system got a decent library. DC had some of the better games in that 2 year span (99-00)



Rafie on 13 September 2019

I'm so serious. I wish Sega would come back to the console business. I don't know how that would be possible though. Backers, sponsers, etc? To me at the time, the Dreamcast was definitely the most powerful console and I didn't mind the controller. I loved the fact I could see the VMU image of whatever game I was playing. I'm just happy that I played the Dreamcast extensively back then and I STILL have it to this day. All of my hardware still looks brand spanking new. I really took care of it. My games don't have a scratch on them either.



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SammyGiireal on 11 February 2020
Rafie said:
I'm so serious. I wish Sega would come back to the console business. I don't know how that would be possible though. Backers, sponsers, etc? To me at the time, the Dreamcast was definitely the most powerful console and I didn't mind the controller. I loved the fact I could see the VMU image of whatever game I was playing. I'm just happy that I played the Dreamcast extensively back then and I STILL have it to this day. All of my hardware still looks brand spanking new. I really took care of it. My games don't have a scratch on them either.

Yeah, I wish Sega was around too as a console manufacturer. The DC really had one of the stronger first party lineups. I wish we would have seen a Skies of Arcadia 2 and a proper Panzer Dragoon RPG like Saga by now. Perhaps we would have if they hadn't gone under.



Leynos on 11 February 2020

Dreamcast turned 20 in 2018. It released in 1998 in Japan.



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SammyGiireal on 11 February 2020
Leynos said:
Dreamcast turned 20 in 2018. It released in 1998 in Japan.

I know, but in the states it released in 9/9/99 so it was 20 years.



0D0 on 13 February 2020
Shadow1980 said:

I bought one on launch day. They didn't have preorders back then, so I got to Walmart early in the morning and bought one (I worked there at the time so I got a 10% discount, too). I bought Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure to go along with it.

The system had a lot of potential, but the damage had already been done to Sega's reputation thanks to the Saturn. Despite a strong launch (569k in Sept. '99, and 1.47M for the last 16-½ weeks of 1999 as a whole), it absolutely cratered at the start of 2000, and despite a price cut its sales in 2000 as a whole were even less than in 1999 despite having a whole year (though it did narrowly defeat the PS2 in Nov. 2000; the PS2 was heavily supply-constrained, but still).

it doesn't look like it sold very bad tho



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Rafie on 13 February 2020
SammyGiireal said:
Rafie said:
I'm so serious. I wish Sega would come back to the console business. I don't know how that would be possible though. Backers, sponsers, etc? To me at the time, the Dreamcast was definitely the most powerful console and I didn't mind the controller. I loved the fact I could see the VMU image of whatever game I was playing. I'm just happy that I played the Dreamcast extensively back then and I STILL have it to this day. All of my hardware still looks brand spanking new. I really took care of it. My games don't have a scratch on them either.

Yeah, I wish Sega was around too as a console manufacturer. The DC really had one of the stronger first party lineups. I wish we would have seen a Skies of Arcadia 2 and a proper Panzer Dragoon RPG like Saga by now. Perhaps we would have if they hadn't gone under.

Maybe we can still see some of these titles. I think Panzer is getting a remake. Not sure if that was a rumor or not.



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0D0 on 13 February 2020
Shadow1980 said:
0D0 said:

it doesn't look like it sold very bad tho

It sold only about 4M units in the 28 months NPD tracked it. That's one of the worst performances for a console ever from any of the Big Four post-crash console makers in the U.S. Only the Master System and Saturn did worse.

In terms of yearly sales, this is what it looked like compared to other Gen 6 consoles:

The Xbox sold almost exactly as many units in 2004 as what the Dreamcast did lifetime.

The Dreamcast had a great start, but in 2000 it simply cratered, and Sega pulled the plug in early 2001.

Ok, now I can see whole picture better. Yeah, that looks terrible.



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When PS4 will hit 100m consoles sold: Before Christmas 2019

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SammyGiireal on 13 February 2020
Rafie said:
SammyGiireal said:

Yeah, I wish Sega was around too as a console manufacturer. The DC really had one of the stronger first party lineups. I wish we would have seen a Skies of Arcadia 2 and a proper Panzer Dragoon RPG like Saga by now. Perhaps we would have if they hadn't gone under.

Maybe we can still see some of these titles. I think Panzer is getting a remake. Not sure if that was a rumor or not.

I read something along those lines too. But I think it is a rumor. The original version is selling for astronomical prices at eBay and Sega lost the code so indeed a remake would be needed.