Xbox or Dreamcast?

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Wman1996 said:

curl-6 said:

I don't think it's wrong to describe Sega as a one hit wonder in terms of commercial success in the console market, but I would say that this doesn't necessarily mean their less successful systems had nothing to offer.

Sales and quality don't necessarily go hand in hand.

Fair. Pretty sure the Master System and its Japan only predecessor were profitable. The market was so much smaller back then, though. In a different comparison, an indie movie with a budget of about a million that makes a few million in total isn't necessarily a hit.

32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast were all commercial failures. CD probably was a failure as well. Sega spent over a generation of its hardware existence losing money.

In all fairness, Xbox lost billions on their first console alone. But it's Microsoft with a massive war chest. 

I meant more that a console can be commercially unsuccessful and still have a lot to offer to the right person; the Saturn and Dreamcast have quite a few excellent games for instance, while beyond Sega the Gamecube and Wii U have their followers despite being failures.

Quality is a subjective metric and varies depending on personal taste, and the thread is more about which people consider better rather than which was more successful.