disolitude said:
You have to gauge consoles at the time they come out, not today looking back at a library that is 15 years old. If you were 8 when Dreamcast was out, and it wasn't your bag of tea, then you have absolutely no viable perspective on the matter. None of your points are true if you were a gamer from 1999 to 2002. Dreamcast was a glorious failure. A console that kicked ass bt ran out of steam (money)... Post its death, almost 30 Dreamcast games have been released by independent developers, with many more in the making... Games like Strumwind and Gunlord are quite fun. As far as WiiU is concerned, it's got its drawbacks like lack of 3rd party support but the console has some amazing exclusives that the competitors are yet to release on their next gen consoles. Hardly a bad console just may not be what you want/need out of gaming. If you have to choose, PC + WiiU combo gives you the best of what gaming has to offer in 2014 IMO... |
If I chose PC? I have a very good PC that costs a lot of money and guess what? It can't even run half the big releases this year. PC ports are horrible for more AAA games. I use it for work but I'd be pissed if I bought it for gaming.
ANd buying a Wii U? I'd have a played a sum total of zero games on it. That's a waste of money and the majority of consumers are like me. I had a wii in my house (bought it for my sis) and it was fun to play because of the motion controls not the hardcore games. I played PS3 for them. That's my opinion and as you see from console sales a lot of people agreeing with me.
On the Dreamcast thing. I agree with you. At that age I had no console loyalty. Didn't even have a console. I used to go into my neighbours house everyday to play his PS1 (crash bandicoot and spyro). My other friend in our estate who i didn't go to that often because he lived further away had a dreamcast. We had great fun playing some flying game on it. So yes I would have enjoyed it and I did.
But the console was a mess and can be considered shit from a business point of view as it put them out of the console business. Wii U on the other hand is making a small profit but to me personally I think it's bad. As I said zero games I'd now play on it. I've grown up like a lot of gamers and want more than something I'd have liked when I was small.
