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Chairman-Mao on 16 January 2010
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KungKras said:
Chairman-Mao said:
KungKras said:
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I don't hate them. I just don't think they were ever that great of a company. If the dreamcast was so good like everyone says then how come it only sold like 15 million units? It came out a year before the PS2 so it should have done well.

Dreamcast sold 10 million in a 2 year life span and assembled a game library worthy to take on any console. But you know, piracy = no software sales = unsustainable business and less future third party support. And Sega did lots of price cuts that only lost them money, they had to pull the plug.

I didn't know Dreamcast had piracy. That certainly hurt their chances then. And I respect the games the console had like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi but the console sales were horrid. All my friends had PS2 and some had Xbox, none had Dreamcast. It just wasn't popular in the real world; I don't know why on game sites people act like it was God.

 

As long as sega sticks with software they're a good company in my books. Valkyrie Chronicles was great and lots of people like Bayonetta/madworld.

You can burn Dreamcast ISO files on CDs and play them without hardware mods or anything. So when CD burners became popular, it was bye bye software sales. It does make it a fun retro console to have though since you can just burn any game in its library if you just have the console.

Its sales was pretty decent during its lifetime I think, the Megadrive sold 29 million and had a normal console lifecycle with most of its sales during a 5 year period I think, while Dreamcast sold 10m during 2 years. Had it had software sales and lived longer, I think it could have done pretty decent, perhaps similar sales to Gamecube. As you said, public awareness for the console was horrid, especially if you, like me lived in Europe. I didn't even know the Dreamcast existed until it was too late.

Dreamcast is usually highly regarded since it had everything that should make up a successful console, but it still failed for other reasons.

Wow I really didn't realize it was that easy to pirate the Dreamcast. That's even easier then PSP. Well I guess 10m in 2 years isn't too bad. At that rate in 5 years it would have outsold Xbox and Gamecube.