Did the dreamcast really fail because of sales?

[bunchanumbers]

KungKras said:

bunchanumbers said:

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.

 

I think its because they didn't really have a analog controller until the Nights Into Dreams bundle. That didn't happen until well into the Saturns lifetime. Sega didn't plan on 3D platformers and I can see why. Most 3D platformers of that era were not pretty. It might actually be to Saturns credit that many of those games didn't grace the Saturn.