| HappySqurriel said: This isn't all that easy to answer because the Dreamcast failed for a wide variety of reasons and depending on which reasons are eliminated would influence how it impacted the generation. Regardless, the assumptions that you could make would have multiple impacts across all platforms and would be centered around stronger sales for the Dreamcast; early on these strong sales would come at the expense to the PS2 which would lower the lead that it had on the XBox and Gamecube, at this point things become difficult to predict because the lower lead of the PS2 would likely limit the number of exclusive games while (at the same time) there is also more competition from an aging Dreamcast. |
This is an interesting thought HappySquirrel. I could really imagine that a better Dreamcast performance could have helped the Gamecube. As you said, if there were two consoles competing, the exclusives would have been split between them and that would have meant that the Cube's exclusives would have been more important. I don't say that it could have outsold the ps2, but maybe it could have reached N64 levels.
