i wish those DC days came back, phantasy star online, dreamarena and planet ring is all i needed.

The Dreamcast actually had better graphics than PS2 back then.

DC didn't get discontinued for not selling. It did becuase sega ran out of money to support it. Dreamcast sold faster in the Us than PS3. In less than 2 years they sold 6 million units of the console.

Sega never had 3rd party support behind them and couldnt do it themselves anymore. Especially with the piracy. Looking at Sony, PS2 without 3rd party would have been the worst system in history and would have probably gotten crushed by dreamcast and later GC and Xbox...no matter howmany Sony pictures dvd movies they bundled with the system.

Totally agreed!  I bought a Dreamcast because I couldn't find a PS2 (my cousin did).  I was getting some really cheap games because the console had just been announced discontinued.  I was coming home with Jet Grind Radio, Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Dead or Alive 2, and Resident Evil CV, for $10-$20 each.  My cousin was trying to impress me with Red Faction, Street Fighter EX, and Onimusha.  I was winning everytime!!

maybe enough is known but you don't know it.  You're a 16 year old in Europe, what do you know about 10 years ago in the USA?  I was your age when the dreamcast came out. 

The game that got me to bite was Soul Calibur. As soon as I saw that thing in action, My $200+ McDonald's paycheck was out the door.

There we go, it can't be a "BENCHMARK to launch a new console" if it didn't have any 3rd Party support/they couldn't convince 3rd party's to give it some......thats a very bad thing to launch a console with, it gives of a stigma.

So my problem with Moore's statement remains.....it still isn't a benchmark launch.

What's the benchmark then, Darth? The thing had support from pretty much every major company except EA. They just tapered off in the end. Before that, the PS1 launched with a handful of games. The N64 and SNES launched with 2 and 3 games, respectively. The Dreamcast launched with a GOOD game in pretty much every genre.

In the end, nothing they did was good enough (obviously), but the Dreamcast did everything as good as can be expected and better than anyone had done before. AKA: Benchmark!

it didn't have good 3rd party support due to past mistakes which had nothing to do with the dreamcast.  This didn't change that it had possibly the best launch lineup in history and quite possibly the best lineup any console had in its first 2 years.  You continue to show me that you don't even know the history of Sega yet you're going around preaching to everyone else. 

Sega had an amazing first party. They steadily released quality games. They didn't need EA back then. They formed their own sports studio, 2K Games. Their sports games were better than EA's offerings. Capcom was good supporter. Sonic was at his prime back then too, the casual market was covered. The only thing they really lacked was an RPG studio. They did not have Square support, but PSO was so fresh and innovative, they really weren't missing much in that catagory.

The main culprate to Sega's demise was lack of software sales, due to piracey. Everybody knew somebody that can burn them games.