Moore: Dreamcast Set the “BENCHMARK in How to Launch a Console”

[darthdevidem01]

disolitude said:

darthdevidem01 said:

@johnsobas

enough is known from the present

if the launch was a benchmark & changed peoples views towards gaming, people would remember it as one in USA & sales would show......neither of that is there....especially the sales bit

A console that gets discontinued for not selling well cannot be a console that "changed people's views towards gaming", a 7 year old at that time could have figured this out

also for all we know you could have been 3 back then.....no-one knows your age on VGC

@xxain

my point has changed now........as we have moved on to USA.....as apparently thats what Peter Moore was talking about.

 

DC didn't get discontinued for not selling. It did becuase sega ran out of money to support it. Dreamcast sold faster in the Us than PS3. In less than 2 years they sold 6 million units of the console.

Sega never had 3rd party support behind them and couldnt do it themselves anymore. Especially with the piracy. Looking at Sony, PS2 without 3rd party would have been the worst system in history and would have probably gotten crushed by dreamcast and later GC and Xbox...no matter howmany Sony pictures dvd movies they bundled with the system.

There we go, it can't be a "BENCHMARK to launch a new console" if it didn't have any 3rd Party support/they couldn't convince 3rd party's to give it some......thats a very bad thing to launch a console with, it gives of a stigma.

So my problem with Moore's statement remains.....it still isn't a benchmark launch.