Did the dreamcast really fail because of sales?

[KungKras]

bunchanumbers said:

Nem said:

 

I was a SEGA fan. I wish what you say would have been the case. The thing went on for years even worse than the Wii U while the PS1 got FF7, metal gear solid, silent hill, resident evil 2, tomb raider 2. What Japan got is mostly irrelevant as in the west it was a wasteland.

Sorry, but there wasnt any comparison. The Saturn was crushed not only by itself but by the competition.

I hate to say it but I disagree. Saturn had lots of great games, and it had some 3rd party support. I remember playing Tomb Raider, Toshinden, Resident Evil, and some others. It actually had lots of 3rd party support in Japan. Those droughts were worse because of no localization. We missed out on Symphony of the Night, Grandia,  DOA, and Sakura Wars. If we had access to these games, I think that Saturn could have been something more. I still wish that Saturn got Lunar Silver Star Story Complete.

It had a good sports library. And a good fighting game library.
The problem was that it barely had any mainstream genres. Croc is the only 3D platformer worth mentioning, when it was a 3D platformer's world. How does that even happen?
And all of its good games were mostly nice, quirky and weird like Nights. So you really had to be deep into gaming in order to appreciate it's library. It's library really was a disaster if you weren't into sports, fighting games, imported shmups and RPG's, or a dedicated gaming gem digger.