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ScuubyT on 31 May 2007
Christopher_G2 said:
I think if the Dreamcast was a success it would have hurt the X-Box more than the other two next gen consoles last generation. There's barely room for three competitive consoles, so four definetly wouldn't have worked, and the effect of a successful Dreamcast could have been enough that the 360 would never have been released.

I repeat, if the Dreamcast succeeded, the XBox would not exist.



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routsounmanman on 31 May 2007

Totally agree with ScuubyT. Nintendo would have its loyal fans (20m) Sony would again dominate, Sega would have their share of fans (15m?) and Microsoft would have nowhere to fit



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a.l.e.x59 on 31 May 2007

Who needs the Xbox?



Darc Requiem on 31 May 2007

MS was a minor partner with Sega on the DC. If the DC was a more successful console, I could have seen one of two things happening. MS buying SEGA and taking over their console business or MS becoming an equal partner with Sega and we'd be playing MS/Sega Dreamcast 360 right now. The 360 launched right around the time the DC2 would have launched had SEGA had the traditional 5 to 6 year console lifespan.

Honestly I wished Yamauchi would've have turned down CSKs attempt to sell SEGA to Nintendo. I highly doubt that Nintendo would have gutted or dismantled SEGA's premeire development teams like Sammy has done. If that didn't work, I wish CSK wouldn't have turned down MS's offer to buy SEGA. I don't think MS would have butchered SEGA's development teams either.



a.l.e.x59 on 01 June 2007

Too bad Microsoft didn't join Sega, instead of competing with it. If they joined, Segasoft would have been awesome.



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ScuubyT on 05 June 2007

MS never would have bought Sega. Ultimately, they wanted DirectX gaming out there, but MS knows that there name does not sell consoles. The Dreamcast got DirectX out without realting it to MS. When Dreamcast failed, they had to act so they released the XBox. MS simply didn't want gaming to leave PC's, whoch is what they don't want now. Sadly...I for one, won't buy an XBox because most of the good games come out for PC anyway :).



sieanr on 06 June 2007
a.l.e.x59 said:
Too bad Microsoft didn't join Sega, instead of competing with it. If they joined, Segasoft would have been awesome.

Except MS never competed with Sega.

Havent you ever noticed the "Powered by Windows CE" sticker on the dreamcast, or do you not own one? And did you even read th post that surmised MS relationship with Sega?

Anyway, sega dropped out and MS saw an opening in the console market. This is obvious with how rushed the xbox hardware was.



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a.l.e.x59 on 06 June 2007

True, Xbox did come out after the Dreamcast died. I never took notice of the "Powered by Windows CE" imprint (not sticker) on the console.