Moore: Dreamcast Set the “Benchmark in How to Launch a Console”
EA Sports Head Peter Moore has said that the Dreamcast set the benchmark for console launches, pushed the technological limits and changed the public’s perception as to what a video game was and who it was marketed towards.
Moore’s comments came in this interview regarding the console’s ten-year anniversary where he said of the Dreamcast:
“I think it was instrumental in vaulting video games into the minds of even non-gamers as a legitimate entertainment medium that could stand on its own and wasn’t the domain of boys in their bedrooms. To this day, I think you can look back at the Dreamcast as being a benchmark in how to launch a console, how to push technology forward, and how to change the view of observers as to what video games are all about.”
While Moore is certainly right in a way, I’m not sure “benchmark” is the right word. Perhaps “forerunner” would be more applicable, as launching a console in these times o’ broadband is now a different monster.
http://kokugamer.com/2009/09/11/moore-dreamcast-set-the-benchmark-in-how-to-launch-a-console/
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WHAT......he has got to be kidding......how could it have changed to observers what the video games are all about when no-one remembers it today.....nor knew much about it back then?
