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arsenicazure on 06 September 2009

DC would have been a much better success if it had SATURN BC thrown in... fat chance of that happening though with the saturns crazy innards...



Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii

5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:

a. a AAA 3D sonic title

b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"

c. redesgined PS controller

d. SEGA back in the console business

e. M$ out of the OS business

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SnesTea on 07 September 2009
Aion said:
Blacksaber said:
Snesboy said:
Aion said:
Never owned a dreamcast but im glad i never bought one.

Why not?

Some people are just not able to handle the greatest console ever made...

No it's not.

I'm sorry, but it is. You might want to try reading my first post again



SnesTea on 07 September 2009
impur1ty said:
Why would the Dreamcast being discontinued hinder anybodies experiences? Unless you have exhausted the library of games which is unlikely...

Games were still coming out in Japan until 2007.

Anyone who thinks they have played all the games, look to the ~650 Japanese games that came out and you will find something you like. The Dreamcast plays backups out of the box, so the price is right too.

More games came out for the Dreamcast than the GameCube. Which is pretty sad.



johnathonmerritt on 07 September 2009

I have no proof and I haven't read it anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Sega took a bow to Microsoft. The controller was a pre-360 design, the system ran Window CE, and the fact is that Sega could still be making games for the console today. It should rightfully be at the end of it's life cycle, but it's quite fishy that they announced it's death the same time the X-Box was released.



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SnesTea on 07 September 2009
johnathonmerritt said:
I have no proof and I haven't read it anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Sega took a bow to Microsoft. The controller was a pre-360 design, the system ran Window CE, and the fact is that Sega could still be making games for the console today. It should rightfully be at the end of it's life cycle, but it's quite fishy that they announced it's death the same time the X-Box was released.

They announced it's death January 2001. Xbox wouldn't be released until November of that year. However, I do agree with the rest of your post. It's weird they killed it off the same year Xbox launched.



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arsenicazure on 08 September 2009
johnathonmerritt said:
I have no proof and I haven't read it anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Sega took a bow to Microsoft. The controller was a pre-360 design, the system ran Window CE, and the fact is that Sega could still be making games for the console today. It should rightfully be at the end of it's life cycle, but it's quite fishy that they announced it's death the same time the X-Box was released.

well.. SEGA in a bid of desperation wanted the XBOX to be the succesor to the dreamcast, which microsoft agreed to, only if sega signed on a dotted line that said " all future soft dev would be done on the windows platform". Sega obviously declined. In the end i think MS lost more than sega did. If they had allowed BC with the DC they'd have a potential extra 4-7 million players and a lot of sega exclusives. SEGA software+ MS money= win win for both

oh well..

back to my 360..



Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

owner of : atari 2600, commodore 64, NES,gameboy,atari lynx, genesis, saturn,neogeo,DC,PS2,GC,X360, Wii

5 THINGS I'd like to see before i knock out:

a. a AAA 3D sonic title

b. a nintendo developed game that has a "M rating"

c. redesgined PS controller

d. SEGA back in the console business

e. M$ out of the OS business

Killergran on 08 September 2009
Snesboy said:
famousringo said:
I think I'll pick up Rock Band 20: Beatles are the greatest band ever Edition.

That's all you got out of this!?

If the first sentence of a post is horribly malconstructed I tend to move on. So yes. That's all I got out of it.



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impur1ty on 08 September 2009
arsenicazure said:
johnathonmerritt said:
I have no proof and I haven't read it anywhere, but I'm pretty sure Sega took a bow to Microsoft. The controller was a pre-360 design, the system ran Window CE, and the fact is that Sega could still be making games for the console today. It should rightfully be at the end of it's life cycle, but it's quite fishy that they announced it's death the same time the X-Box was released.

well.. SEGA in a bid of desperation wanted the XBOX to be the succesor to the dreamcast, which microsoft agreed to, only if sega signed on a dotted line that said " all future soft dev would be done on the windows platform". Sega obviously declined. In the end i think MS lost more than sega did. If they had allowed BC with the DC they'd have a potential extra 4-7 million players and a lot of sega exclusives. SEGA software+ MS money= win win for both

oh well..

back to my 360..

 

Sega and Microsoft certainly had a close relationship at the time but that all sounds a bit too speculative, got any citation?



SnesTea on 08 September 2009
Killergran said:
Snesboy said:
famousringo said:
I think I'll pick up Rock Band 20: Beatles are the greatest band ever Edition.

That's all you got out of this!?

If the first sentence of a post is horribly malconstructed I tend to move on. So yes. That's all I got out of it.

Wow, way to be nice. Ever heard of humor?



Dinomax on 08 September 2009

Well todays the day in Australia, 10 year anniversary of one of the best systems ever.

Theres no arguing it, the game library is fantastic and innovative followed with great controls. The hardware ran extremely well, was easy to port arcade games directly too as well easy to make a boot disk so you can play imported games!

Seeing it die wasn't fair either. A game system with that much quality seen gone to waste shouldn't of happened.

Heres the ten years to the ghost that showed how good gaming could be.