The Looks of A Console Has a Tremendous Impact on Sales

[FunFan]

Hynad said:

FunFan said:

Maybe by today standars. But it was a product designed for its time. Purposedly looking like a piece of professional sound equipment and often confused with a sound amplifier by non-gamers. Which was considered cool back then as growing music cultures were the hip thing and anything DJ like was not seen as something nerdy (even thought it was).

Not sure what you're on about. But I was there. It was ugly from the day I first saw it. I'm not saying this by judging it by today's standards.

You obviously didn't hang out with the cool crowd...

Don't get me wrong, I consider the Dreamcast the beauty of that gen, but it was another story from the point of view of people outside gaming circles. Especially those whose opinion defined what was considered "hip" back then. Simply put, looking like a console wasn't a good thing, and the Dreamcast and Gamecube were the last consoles to look like actual games consoles.