So is the PS3 the modern dreamcast?

[Kasz216]

disolitude said:

Kasz216 said:

Not at all if you ask me.

The reason the Dreamcast failed wasn't that it was ahead of it's time.

It's that the Saturn, 32X and Sega CD screwed them.

If your looking for a PS3 corralary, one of those three systems makes more sense.

It's a system that isn't ahead of it's time so much as just being poorly poorly executed.

Fanboys look back on any system and think fondly of it though.  I bet there are people crying about their Atari Jaguars and how they ruled.

 

 

When so many people are ranting how the system kicked ass as they do with the dreamcast...there could be a hint of truth. The truth is, Dreamcast was one of the last true classic gaming system(along side gamecube) until the whole multimedia, one box does everything, must redifine controls with motion control bullshit started. It did only games and it did it well...true gamer was much better off with the dreamcast while it was being supported than PS2. There wasn't a genre of game dreamcast didn't do really well. Try playing a good hockey or basketball game on the wii today.

Secondly no one thought Jaguar rocked...every Jag owner that I ever talked to said the system sucks

The Dreamcast did kick ass.

However, every sysem is going to have fanboys that look back and think how awesome it was.  That was my point.

The Dreamcast was a superior product let down by Sega ruining their name with the Saturn, 32X and Sega CD.

The Playstation was a poorly designed overpriced product let down by Sony making horrible decisions in it's construction and conception.

The Dreamcasts problems were exterior.  The Playstation 3's problems are interior.

If the dreamcast wasn't assosiated with Sega it would of been more popular.

If the PS3 wasn't assosiated with Sony... it would be even worse off.