| Shadow1980 said: I bought one on launch day. They didn't have preorders back then, so I got to Walmart early in the morning and bought one (I worked there at the time so I got a 10% discount, too). I bought Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure to go along with it. The system had a lot of potential, but the damage had already been done to Sega's reputation thanks to the Saturn. Despite a strong launch (569k in Sept. '99, and 1.47M for the last 16-½ weeks of 1999 as a whole), it absolutely cratered at the start of 2000, and despite a price cut its sales in 2000 as a whole were even less than in 1999 despite having a whole year (though it did narrowly defeat the PS2 in Nov. 2000; the PS2 was heavily supply-constrained, but still).
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Indeed. Costumer confidence in Sega was low...with rumors of them going under every other week, and the massive PS2 hype DC sells stagnated. The bigger issue was Sega's huge debt, perhaps with deeper financial pockets they might have been able to sustain the DC through out that Gen, like Nindento sustained the GC and Wii U in their respective runs. But Sega really needed the DC to be a smash hit from the get go and it wasn't despite the fact that for the first 2 years it was actually a Better console than the PS2 ( Sony's launch lineup was pathetic). The rest is history.
