Moore: Dreamcast Set the “Benchmark in How to Launch a Console”

EA Sports Head Peter Moore has said that the Dreamcast set the benchmark for console launches, pushed the technological limits and changed the public’s perception as to what a video game was and who it was marketed towards.

Moore’s comments came in this interview regarding the console’s ten-year anniversary where he said of the Dreamcast:

“I think it was instrumental in vaulting video games into the minds of even non-gamers as a legitimate entertainment medium that could stand on its own and wasn’t the domain of boys in their bedrooms. To this day, I think you can look back at the Dreamcast as being a benchmark in how to launch a console, how to push technology forward, and how to change the view of observers as to what video games are all about.”

While Moore is certainly right in a way, I’m not sure “benchmark” is the right word. Perhaps “forerunner” would be more applicable, as launching a console in these times o’ broadband is now a different monster.

http://kokugamer.com/2009/09/11/moore-dreamcast-set-the-benchmark-in-how-to-launch-a-console/

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@ bolded

WHAT......he has got to be kidding......how could it have changed to observers what the video games are all about when no-one remembers it today.....nor knew much about it back then?

lol wat ?

how can you say no one remembers dreamcast?? dreamcast was beyond its time, to put it in perspective, think of the PS3 releasing alongside the gamecube and Xbox instead of the ps2.

he looks creepy....

@emilie

no trust me.....atleast in UK, NO-ONE even remembers it existed now.

@xxain

he does tatoo's too....he's a gangsta!

And you know everyone in the UK do you? COme on .. you were 7 when this thing launched ..

WoW...Darth I completely missed ur ridiculous comment in the OP...thats BS

It's Dreamcast's ten year anniversary (or close to it). Just pretend it was awesome and be nice to it for a little while.

All console launches since the Dreamcast have borrowed from what it did right. It came with forward thinking hardware as part of the package and had a large line-up of games at launch that wasn't dominated by 1st party games. Also, the advertising was spot on and the timing of the launch well chosen. Also, lots of people remember it. Not as much as some systems, of course, but you should recall that it had record first day/week sales at its launch and would have outsold both GC and Xbox were it not discontinued so early.

lol no. Atleast not in any technical or software possible way.