| The_God_of_War said: 4- Sega not using a DVD drive with the Dreamcast- as the PS2 shows, this would have been a good idea. I'm not too familiar with the history of Sega's mistakes but I know they somehow pissed off a lot of people with the Saturn. And this made people reluctant to purchase the Dreamcast. |
Here's something else about the Dreamcast that isn't often considered - Microsoft made the OS for it - a variant of Windows CE. They made sure they had some experience in consoles before the xbox was launched - the Dreamcast had Internet access too (you could probably call this xbox Live 0.1 beta or some such). To me this pretty clearly explains why the Dreamcast just wasn't destined to be a real contender as MS already knew the xbox would be coming. Sony was just lucky in their timing to trump the xbox last gen and get a large enough install base.
For the record, I still have a Saturn lying around somewhere - an amazingly forward looking feature was the internal memory for save games - which wasn't seen again until the xbox ( if my console knowledge serves me correctly )
