GameCube or Dreamcast?

[Onyxmeth]

jman8 said:

Jlaff said:

Onyxmeth said:

Dreamcast by miles. Many, many miles. The Gamecube was a flawed concept of a console with no discernible reason for why it existed other than to follow the PS2 into the next generation. The Dreamcast was innovative beyond belief and helped shape the online landscape of today's consoles, and still has a better online experience than the Wii somehow, let alone the 4 games that were online capable on the Cube.

Dreamcast was also built around arcade boards tech which made porting arcade games to the Dreamcast a very simple process. For those of us who grew up in the arcades, this was a huge win.

I second this.

I'll third this. The Dreamcast really brought "new" to the gaming world. For a site that has so many Wii fanatics praying at the temple of "innovation," I'm somewhat surprised people are so overwhelmingly in favor of the Cube. What's something new that Nintendo brought to the table last generation?

Don't get me wrong. I love my Gamecube because it had some great games. However, they were all really just refined and well-executed N64 updates that took years on end to actually be released. In just 2 years, Sega pumped out some of the best and most interesting games. DC takes the win.

They don't pray at the temple of innovation because of motion controls, they do it because it's Nintendo that innovated. If it were Microsoft or Sony that thought this up, trust me, so many people on this site would not be upping this innovation nearly as much. Not to discount the innovation of motion controls, because I feel they're very important for progress, but many people here do not follow innovation, they just follow Nintendo.

Dreamcast offered more originality, innovation and fun in 2 1/2 years than the Gamcube did in it's 4 year cycle and anyone that wants to refute this can put up an argument. The Cube was Nintendo's most unnecessary console ever.