CNET: The decade's 30 biggest tech flops

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mchaza on 03 December 2010

my bad didn't see this decade.

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DirtyP2002 on 03 December 2010

Damn I loved that Dreamcast.

A very unique console with so many great ideas / games.

Sonic, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue I and Shenmue II, Virtual Tennis, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Tony Hawk when it was a great series... Memories...

Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

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SnesTea on 03 December 2010

d21lewis said:

I thought the Dreamcast came out in '99.

It did. In North America. In Japan, it launched in November of 1998.

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darthdevidem01 on 03 December 2010

Where's HD-DVD?

Found it! Its too low!

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jarrod on 03 December 2010

I think UMD Movie was a spectacular enough failure that it should warrant it own section.

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NiKKoM on 03 December 2010

i still love dreamcast.. she didn't flop, she was like a girl who you had 2 years of amazing sex.. and sex only.. no dinners, no cuddling, no dates, just sex.. I still cheat with her sometimes on my gf..

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The Anarchyz on 03 December 2010

alfredofroylan said:

1. Dreamcast (1998-2001)

Don't get us wrong. We loved the Dreamcast, which was originally released in 1998 and discontinued in the U.S. in 2001 (it was still sold in Japan until 2006), and still miss it. But it didn't make it.

The Dreamcast didn't fail .... we fail the Dreamcast

Neither, Sega failed the Dreamcast... They failed when they promoted the CD and the 32X with no really good games and technical issues, i only know 2 friends that had the CD and 1 that had the 32X at the time they came out (nowadays i know more people that have them because they are collectors), then the Saturn, using quads instead of triangles to do 3D graphics, alienating developers in every way they possibly could, having more technical issues, 2 32-bit processors with no real use (even by the 1st party devs) the price point, the failed "Saturnday", and pulling the plug too soon (even EA said after this "we are not gonna work with Sega again"), Sega damaged all the reputation they earned with the Genesis looking like a company that doesn't know what they're doing, the amazing Dreamcast inherited the failures Sega made in the past... It's all Sega's fault...

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jarrod on 03 December 2010

In terms of architecture, Saturn was basically the PS2 of it's day. Sure it's shitty and could drive away support, but it's not like 3rd parties really seemed to care on PS2 just a generation later (except Mikami <3 <3)...

Saturn's marketing and handling (especially in America/Europe) was a total clusterfuck on Sega's part though.