Sega Dreamcast: What Happened?! - Tech Fails!
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- Sega Dreamcast: What Happened?
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The year was 1999. After falling behind Sony and Nintendo in the gaming console wars, SEGA was back with something brand new - a console that packed several new features and advanced graphics to match. It was the SEGA Dreamcast, and it was released in the US on September 9th, 1999 after months of hype that told people that on 9/9/99, SEGA would be back and better than ever. Then, just over a year later, the SEGA Dreamcast was cancelled. In this episode of Tech Fails, we travel back to 2001 and examine exactly why such an extraordinary console became a total disaster.
The @SEGA Dreamcast failure left an indelible mark on the gaming world. It was the first ever sixth generation video game console and is widely credited with helping to revitalize the industry after what many considered to be a dry spell in the mid-1990s. Its release date coincided with a full solar eclipse across Asia and North America, and it retailed for $199 at launch (equivalent to $292 today). This made the system competitively priced against other sixth generation consoles such as the $299 PlayStation 2 or Microsoft Xbox. However, it’s also considered to be one of the most disappointing flops in video game history. Despite its short lifetime, the Dreamcast did manage to make a few major contributions to the gaming industry: things like online play, a version of dual screen gaming, and even emulators were all a part of the Dreamcast experience - but it wasn’t enough. Let’s talk about why the SEGA Dreamcast failed.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro to Why Sega Dreamcast Failed
1:04 History of the SEGA Dreamcast
2:29 ASUS ROG STRIX WiFi 6 Gaming Router
3:58 SEGA Dreamcast Features
4:30 SEGA Refused To Change
5:34 The Dreamcast Japan Launch Disaster
6:48 SEGA Dreamcast Price
8:20 SEGA Dreamcast Piracy
9:41 SEGA Dreamcast vs EA Sports
11:06 SEGA Dreamcast vs PlayStation 2
12:32 SEGA Dreamcast DVD Player
13:20 Financial Ruin for SEGA
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I was a day one Dreamcast owner. Still one of my favorite consoles of all time. The 2k sports games were incredible and I remember them being insanely cheap at the time as they were trying to undercut EA. I want to say they were 19.99 brand new. Some of my best local-multiplayer gaming memories came playing 2k sports games on my Dreamcast.
Wait a minute $20 for a new game?!?! I don't even remember this!!
@@Andru The $20 price was later on with Xbox/PS2/Gamecube releases. The NFL2K series was a serious competitor to EAs Madden series. One year they decided to sell it for $20 to stick to it to EA. The next year EA bought the rights to produce official NFL console games and the NFL Players right for 10 years. No other publisher could make an NFL game that included the team names, and team roster of players.
2KGames bought the same NBA rights in retaliation, but the damage was done, EA and Madden had won the console football war, by forcing the competition to quit.
@@lazarushernandez5827 What blows my mind is that there were people braindead enough to buy those football games in the first place, I mean maybe it's just me but I never found realistic sports video games to be ANY fun at all. The first game I remember playing in the late 80's early 90's was Duck Hunt, that's a much better example of how to make a sports-based game, by making it unrealistic. This is why NBA JAM is the best basketball game ever made, possibly the best sports game ever made, and there's no competition--because it was not based on real basketball but instead they made a fun unrealistic video game based on baskteball. As far as football games go there was NFL BLITZ--a far superior video game to madden.
I remember when the 2K series for Dreamcast was untouchable!!! Football was crazy!!! Miss those days. Every now and then I connect my Dreamcast for those classics... Graphically inferior compared to today's, but I feel it's more fun than today's.
I own 5 Dreamcast consoles and I got my first one on 9.9.99 at Brooklyn NY Toy "r" Us and still love playing it.
Dreamcast is like the only initially successful console to ever fail. Though it did officially last with software support till 2007, i would have loved to see it truly pushed to it's limits
Absolutely luv my Dreamcast and still have it hooked up in my bedroom and get every new game that still comes out.
That's way cool. I refurbished/modded a used DC last year. That was fun in itself, and I also had mega nostalgia re-playing some of the games I had ~20 years ago. Such a cool gaming system.
Dreamcast was literally the largest change and gap ever made from console to next generation console. It was the first console to have full online gameplay.
Dreamcast burned bright. It lasted a year or so, brought in console online multiplayer and a library packed with all-time classics.
Oh yea I had the Dreamcast it was amazing. NFL 2K and NBA 2K were amazing. Calling plays on the memory card was dope.
Shenmue, Grandia, Crazy Taxi and definitely NBA 2K...My favorites on Dreamcast
Shenmue and Crazy Taxi were my JAMS - along with Soul Calibur!
Piracy killed it. It also had a high failure rate. I remember my dog unplugging a controller while i was playing it and practically broke the console. I googled it and it was a resistor that needed to be upgraded.
DC didn't have a high failure rate. Ps2 certainly did though. Enough so that that had to settle out of court
@@danbaker7045 sega didn't sell enough DC for it to be common knowledge. They were very fragile. Accidentally disconnecting your controller in the middle of game play was enough to brick the console. A quick Google in 2006 walked me through on how to fix it.
@@mgkaotic Yeah. I modded a couple used DCs last year. Replacing that little fuse on the controller board was one of the mods I did.
Not sure that it was an especially "high" failure rate back in the day though.
I LOVED the Dreamcast. Seemed quite futuristic at the time. I remember being so impressed with the controller, VMUs, online capability, and the 128 bit graphics. My favorite games were Sonic Adventure, NBA 2K1, Dead or Alive 2, and Wild Metal.
I'd say the DC and original Xbox are my top favorite consoles of all time! Ahh... the days when video games were cool.
I can’t believe I’m the first to mention Soul Calibur. I’d hate to see how many hours I put into that game. I remember inviting some coworkers over to hang out (and serve a dose of these thumbs) and the amazement at the game play and graphics. 8-way run was a game changer!
I own 5 Dreamcast consoles and I got my first one on 9.9.99 at Brooklyn NY Toy "r" Us and still love playing it.
I know @andru played DC with “the boys” when it came out. I owned one eventually and I never regretted it - I had some of the most fun on that console, but it was sad to see SEGA die on what I think is one of their more innovative pieces of hardware.
Fav games: shenmue, crazy taxi, phantasy star online, Dreamcast browser disc
Bro I was ALL ABOUT SOUL CALIBUR!!! I remember Boo DOT COM had a Dreamcast and we would just play all day in between answering phone calls, which sometimes you would only get like 10 calls in an 8 hour shift so it was just getting paid to play Dreamcast all day!!!
Still have mine.
Favorite Dreamcast game??
@@Andru MSR hands down.
I bought 1 when it had the sports bundle! Loved the basketball!
Same here! NBA 2K1 was one I played a lot!
NFL 2K … some of the best games at that time. I preferred the 2K series over Madden.
I STILL prefer 2K over madden. Nowadays Madden games become more and more buggy and unpolished with each new entry
100% watch time from me today! Love these videos. Great work, Andru!
Best memory cards to this day.
My intro to Let's get ready 2 rumble.
Fun fishing game.
So muched missed potential.
But 8 year old me loved it back in the day.
If it had the support it could have kept up with the gamecube until pokemon came out. But I would question the xbox's existence
I had a Dreamcast. I loved the thing. My favourite games were Sega GT , Sonic adventure and Tokyo Xtreme racer on the console
Dreamcast came back as The Xbox, I'm sure of it. Can you do a video about that?
I feel like it's a great point to make with EA. They would have sold much more consoles had they had those games on the Dreamcast alone. Let alone all the money freed up for other games they could have focused on.
such a sad story on why the Dreamcast failed! everything around it was crumbling as soon as it was launched oh my gosh! it was inevitable from the get-go! is this the console that failed in the shortest span of time in history? it certainly feels like it! great video!
2k Football on dreamcast was probably one of, if not the best football game i've ever played. it was freaking awesome at the time!
a friend of mine had the Sega Dreamcast and he loved it for UFC.
One of the most underrated consoles and so ahead of it’s time. Power stone and Hydro Thunder all day long..
Have you covered Sega Saturn or Sega CD? Sega CD was basically a Sega Genesis with CD quality music.😹
I was a Sega ONLY person back then! Game Gear was years ahead of its time!
Definitely gonna do those in future episodes!
I still have mine and the new games as well.
Toy commander.. all the marvel vs capcom games, the fishing games.. jet grind radio! Ready to rumble
Still love my Dreamcast!!! Still great games for it that NEVER released elsewhere!!!
The Dreamcast came out when the PS1 & N64 were still very popular. Bad timing. Then the PS2 came out and finished off the Dreamcast.
Are you not doing a pixel 6 review?
Still working on that one!
Thanks for doing one on the Dreamcast Andru. Couple of things though... Music was proper loud, essentially the same volume as your voice, when telling a story like Jon does sometimes, you need to hear it. Second, your speed was quick, it's an incredible console and an incredible story but you whizzed through that!
Man! I love the Dreamcast. I even had their Internet service 😂😂😂
Yep, "broadband adapter".
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Did not expect to see Slice n Rice here!! 💜
The Dreamcast was mostly plagued by bad timing and mistakes made prior to its launch, not by being a bad console or having bad games.
7:45 I may be wrong, but I don't think this clip is from a Dreamcast game? If it is a DC game, which is it?
When I saw Marvel vs Capcom for Dreamcast I bought it..I had maybe three games but that one I played the most. (Marvel vs Capcom)
Oh that game was FANTASTIC. Tag team fighting game with all those characters.
The PS2 was not ¥800... that's like $8 USD. It was priced just under ~¥40,000.
Piracy definitely was a big reason. And then there was the PS2 and its DVD format. The GDROM wasn’t the future.
Code Veronica! 🥳😍
I feel like if the Dreamcast came out with 32 MB of RAM and maybe a price for the 329.99 they could have competed better the game's definitely needed it. Also with ram that's one thing that drops in price over time so they could have dropped their console price to compete with the PS2. And hopefully that would have delayed the PS2 somewhat for them to increase their Ram since it was only 32 MB as well which was also underpowered.
I still have my dream cast and it works. I dont have a memory unit tho
Does this mean that Sega has not released new gaming consoles at all? 🥺
Sup Mister Andru and everyone back when video games were cool
EXCUSE ME SIR THEY ARE STILL COOL!!!
@@Andru I know I still have ps1 gamecube Nintendo Sega and a decent amount of old games
I agree. The 6th generation of consoles was the "coolest" in my opinion :)
What does this have to do with xbox?
I love retro tech videos! Thanks for this!
Thanks my guy! More retro coming!!
I had a Dreamcast. I remember enjoying it a lot but we didn’t have it for very long. We were burgled and that was one of the tech devices they stole.
Sorry that happened to you and your family.
@@Chr1s8o8 Turned out to be a “friend” of my brother’s who knew he kept his window unlocked. My hometown wasn’t the best place to call home.
I never owned a Dreamcast. But I'm glad SEGA still making great games even after pulling out from the console race.
No DVD that happened.
Yeah. The Gamecube didn't have a DVD player though, and it was considered successful.
When editing your videos, please pay attention to the volume of the music... Overly loud music is a huge annoyance.
What’s up I thought it was something to do with sonic
I still have mine.
End of an era…
i've never even seen a dreamcast in person.
it looks like a child of a sony PS one and game cube
Your hands are making me dizzy 🤣🤣🤣
i love our dreamcast
I remember 9/9/99. My birthday is on 9/9 and I didn’t get it :(
How did you allow that??
The Dreamcast died because it did not have a DVD player period.
Yep
Ya hate to see it.
I still have a first gen Dreamcast. It's a shame Sega was just way too ahead of the game at the time. I would love to buy DC 2!
One of these days. SEGA needs to have more confidence in themselves. They could really knock it out of the park. I don't think so they're done yet.
The Dreamcast didn't fail. Sega made a lot bad decisions with their previous consoles and the mistakes that they made with the Dreamcast was not to include a DVD player and dial up internet connection. I still play my Dreamcast to this day. And in the early 2000 I bought a PS2 only for the DVD player and I bought like 30+ games and didn't care much for them. The controllers of the PlayStation are terrible to play fighting games I never bought a PS3 because of that. I continue to buy next generation consoles like Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox one
I feel the same. The actual Dreamcast console itself was great. Though, I wish it had broadband built in (instead of the default dial up) and a DVD player.
The problem was that in the past they made the Saturn too expensive and difficult to program games for that's why there is so many games with bad quality. When the Saturn came out was $400 or $500 I don't remember but the PlayStation was only $299 and had one processor and it was easier for game programmers to make games for it. When the Dreamcast came out was like $200 they were supposed to make it $300 with DVD player and internet connection not dial up connection. Sega is a great gaming company but they made a lot of bad businesses decisions
Dreamcast failed much like how before the Saturn failed in the US.
In Japan the Saturn and Dreamcast did much better.
Dreamcast actually didn't do well in Japan despite the fact that games kept releasing for almost 10 years there. DCs strongest territory was actually the US. Saturn did excellent in Japan though for sure!
The Dreamcast didn’t fail it was the best console it beat the PS2 xbox in graphics I tested marvel vs capcom 2 new age of heroes on all 3 consoles the Dreamcast was the best of course the arcade machine still wins cause it’s a PC not a console nothing beats PC back in the days PC wasn’t getting digital games from the arcades they went to consoles only but the Sega Dreamcast was great it didn’t need the 4mb cartridge it’s only problem was it didn’t play movies that the PS2 and xbox did cause Sega is like Nintendo they don’t think of making their consoles having a DVD player is important
Totally wrong. It just didn't have a DVD player that's it. Launch games destroyed the PS2. Every non gamer wanted a DVD player.