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AlfredoTurkey on 10 September 2017
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

So, I've never owned a Dreamcast but I've played a lot of games that originated on the system. I'm always looking at the history of game releases, and the Dreamcast just had an amazing two years of releases. It reminds me a lot of the Switch in so many ways. Like the Switch it was a successor to a failed console, it had a very good library, it was made by a small Japanese company, and it sold extremely well (nearly 10 million units in three years, while the GameCube struggled to reach 20 million in 5 years). Sega just ran out of money with the Dreamcast. 

How is that "extremely well"? That means it would be by far the worst selling console out of the Xbox, Gamecube, and PS2. Still, admittadely, that would go to show just how close Sega was to Nintendo, but that just shows how weak Nintendo was that gen.

I think this is a pretty good video on why Sega as a company were great developers but also why it took a while for them to pick up after Genesis.

Either way, it's really sad that Sega isn't in the console industry anymore. They have such a huge catalog of interesting IP. I wonder if, with the combination of Sega and Nintendo during the 7th gen, we might have a more single player oriented game market to this day?

The Dreamcast broke the launch record when it came out so it did sell very well right out of the gates. The problem was maintaining those sales which we all know now, it didn't. Nothing could defeat the hype that was the PS2. It was like a black whole... consuming all in it's path.