I was barely 20 years old and knee deep in the industry by the time the Dreamcast launched so I have a pretty good prespective with regards to how all of it went down. The Dreamcast was an amazing machine when it launched and by the time the PS2 was starting to get hype, it was firing on all cylinders. But said hype... it's hard to really explain just how massive it was to someone who wasn't around. 

PS2, for us Dreamcast owners, was like the fucking Empire. It was this massive black cloud of hype and vapor that just totally consumed gamers minds and the minds of the general public. Sony had ads before major movies in theaters (I saw one of them first hand) months before it launched. All the gaming magazines were basically paid off. You couldn't make toast in the morning without knowing about the PS2 and all of it's supposed superiority. 

By the time it launched, Dreamcast was already buried. Even though the library was worse than the Dreamcast's for months on end, lacked online play and most of the games it did have looked worse (yes, it's totally true)... it still murded, impaled and buried Sega's offering. 

The lesson I learned from that time is that PR can win a war all by itself. Sony had nothing on the Dreamcast when the PS2 dropped but people were brainwashed and totally unable to crtically think their way out of it.  

I actually love the PS2's launch line-up, TImeSplitters is one of my all-time favourite games, and Tekken Tag Tournament, DOA2: Hardcore and Ridge Racer V, were all great, among others.

Acting like it never existed.

Soon enough, if anyone mentions the word "WiiU", the will be punched in the nose 🙂.

Nintendo will start to act like Wii U never existed from now on. Let's be honest Wii U was Nintendo's biggest failure ever and they don't want to talk about it ever again.

They have a console which had a total of 22 games and playing it caused you to go blind.

The Wii U was bad... but it wasn't blindness inducingly bad.

I think this is more like you wake up one day and your really high maintenance, chunky, not really pretty... like a 720/10 neighbourhood girl no longer was found in the house next door, but instead her sexy, slim replacement was there who liked to travel but also was happy to sit in front of the couch for hours blowing you.....r mind with hours of Zelda

It was a terrible system with some really good games. Bye bye now.

When asked about Wii U they'll answer "Wii Uhat?"

That's probably because the Switch isn't compatible with that screen controller they released for the Wii.