Had DC been a success who would have failed? PS2/XB/GC?
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Where's the DC in that poll 
The message is clear: DC has failed.
If DC hadn't failed, Sega wouldn't have gone multiplatform, therefore the console that profited the most from Sega games would have had less of a reason to be bought by the public.
Proportionally, the Xbox is the console that had the most "Sega console" image out of the 3 remaining, so i guess if you take Sega games out of the Xbox equation, things would have been very different.
However, you have to think how big the impact of Sega games were on the 3 consoles. Very small if you ask me, compared to all the rest. So i'm not sure how anyone can just give out a name like this.
Sega failed hardware-wise, and couldn't even get their software to be of much importance on 3 other consoles, except for a handful of titles, if even that.
I mean... Sonic with guns? How low can they get... :?
Proportionally, the Xbox is the console that had the most "Sega console" image out of the 3 remaining, so i guess if you take Sega games out of the Xbox equation, things would have been very different.
However, you have to think how big the impact of Sega games were on the 3 consoles. Very small if you ask me, compared to all the rest. So i'm not sure how anyone can just give out a name like this.
Sega failed hardware-wise, and couldn't even get their software to be of much importance on 3 other consoles, except for a handful of titles, if even that.
I mean... Sonic with guns? How low can they get... :?
TEXAN said:
I guess they started doing something wrong in the early 90's with the add-on crazyness.
Megadrive1988
Veteran
It tickles me to know there are still Dreamcast games being made today
(last year and this year)
(last year and this year)
sony didn't kill the dc imo, it was the impending launch of the gc and xbox that stalled hardware (and later software) sales for sega. what sega did wrong is they launched too early. only the early adapters bought one. by the time the rest of the gaming world was interested in dc the ps2 was out and the gc/xbox were right around the corner.
had sega not failed i think it's safe to think that ms would be out of the picture this generation. the xbox got some nice sega love early on with segaGT and jet set future, eventualy spawning the first holiday bundle. without the immediate support from sega, i think ms would have had a much harder time selling systems, particularly in japan (where they got slaughtered anyway), but also in the us. sure, sony and nintendo got sega titles, but i think their systems would sell by name alone. ms was the new kid on the block.
I love it when people blame a huge thing like this on ONE single event/reason.
Sega went the way they went because of MANY reasons over the course of MANY years.
Generalising, saying "They went down because THIS happened" is as limited as saying "The war on Iraq happened because we had to liberate the Iraqi people".
Sega went the way they went because of MANY reasons over the course of MANY years.
Generalising, saying "They went down because THIS happened" is as limited as saying "The war on Iraq happened because we had to liberate the Iraqi people".
Well I hate it when people deny the pivotal factor in a situation in favor of broad reaching generalisations which are completely wothless. Seriously, the moment the general poplutation discovered how easy it was to copy DC games the developers rightfuly stoped looking at it as a viable platform. I watched it happen, if you want to deny it because you liked geting free copies of games or whatever then thats your bag but it doesn't change what happened.
kyleb said:
Err i never had a DC. Nor i'm someone who likes to go cheap on his purchases, thank you.
All i was saying is that there are many factors, and i'm not sure your copy protection argument is the best.
If anything, Sega went the way of the dodo because they totally fucked up the success they gained in the Genesis days with very questionable management decisions and by the time DC was out they had no money. And many other reasons, copy un-protection being one of them.
DuckThor Evil
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I can hardly see the point of this thread, I think we should concentrate on this reality/dimension for crying out loud!. The fact is that Dreamcast is dead and rightly so. Let the dead rest.
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