Dreamcast vs Original Xbox

[DonFerrari]

Hynad said:

Ka-pi96 said:
Xbox. It was the console I finished the gen on. After getting pissed off at the low reliability of PS2s (seriously, I think I went through like 7 of them. Those things broke far too easily!) I went solely Xbox at the end of the gen. Really enjoyed it too, despite not owning a single Halo game for it.

I got only one PS2, and it never failed on me. How do you handle your consoles?

@OP: I got an X-Box when Shenmue 2 came out, and I got to try Halo that came with, and I got into Fable. But it eventually started to amass dust. 
The Dreamcast on the other hand, I played the heck out of it. I was still into arcade games quite a bit back then, and arcade game ports on that console were near flawless, when they weren't improved. Then there was Sega's unmatched content output, all great and unique titles. And to top it all off, Shenmue, a game far ahead of its time, regardless if you enjoyed it or not.

Really, the Dreamcast remained the console I spent the most money on prior to the advent of digital editions. Which, considering the very short life of the console, is saying a lot.

I always find odd how many systems and controls some people burn in a gen.

My PS1 and PS2 were modded to play bootlegged games (that is all we had in Brazil at the time) and I probably played over 4h a day for 5 year each of them before they were really stopping to work right.

My PS3 still works (now it is giving fatal errors in several games and just shutting down, will send for repair). PS4 the issue I had was on the disc reader (after reading some bootlegged movies for my son) on the Pro and eject button on regular (this seems a common issue on it).

But controls I never had a broken one, at most after 3 years I had to open and clean for PS3 and nothing for PS4 so far.