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Erisian said:
^^ Didn't the Dreamcast launch on 9.9.99? And look how that ended.


At the time it was the biggest entertainment product launch ever, even beating Episode 1.

 

http://www.apzonerunner.com/?p=21

"At launch, the Dreamcast flew off shelves. It broke records in pre-orders, with over 300,000 filed across the US and then went on to smash another record, selling 225,000 consoles in the first 24 hours – a record that would later be broken by the PS2. Sega made $98.4 million on hardware and software at launch. Sega was pleased about this, even going on record comparing the huge launch to the opening day of Star Wars: Episode I."

 

as for how it ended...Sega had 32X - Sega CD - and poor Saturn after those previous two to blame for DreamCast's failure. (i don't think piracy was as big of a deal as people made it out to be, PS1 was easily pirated too.)

 

X-Box only has to worry about getting hardware relability on track the third time out.