| frybread said: I've noticed a trend, pretty much every gamer today agrees that Dreamcast was the best console ever. The absolute peak of gaming, every game for DC was a gem and woe is you for stupidly going for a PS2 back in the day. Do they really believe that, or do they just want to sound interesting? If everyone who says "dreamcast was the best!@" had actually bought one, Sega would still be making hardware. Where did this belief start, and why? The amount of highly rated (85+) PS2 games is greater than the entire Dreamcast library, bad games and all. (yes, shocking as it sounds, bad games were released on Dreamcast). Even Gamecube's library dwarfs Dreamcast, even if you only count highly rated games. And the few highly rated Dreamcast games, like Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue and Ikaruga, were released on other platforms. I know there are hundreds of Dreamcast fans here, so please tell me, if you could only have one console for the rest of your life, would you honestly pick Dreamcast? |
One can argue the Dreamcast was, among all systems that failed in the market, the best. It was cut short too early. It was a 2D powerhouse and held its own early against the PS2. It has games, like the original Crazy Taxi (and a few others) that were nowhere as good as on the PS2. People who argued the loss of the system was no big deal, because they would get their games on the PS2, got disappointing games.
HOWEVER, any system that has a fairly long life, and sells well, will end up having more really good titles. This is by the law of probability above anything else. It happens. This is why people are concerned about which system will sell the best, because they feel safer that their investment would pay out in the end.
