The Dreamcast was both a failure and a massively underrated machine. Let's take a look at what happened with Sega's biggest console. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
I would not say that fully it was a hell of console with lots of features and potential. Though features are only as good as they are accessible along with that games for dream cast were few and far between I remember spending months looks for games like gauntlet,pso,powestone ,mdk1/2 as most games not being 1st party were rarely stocked.
The Dreamcast was a very good system, but Sega had bad luck with the intense competition from Sony and Nintendo in the console market. Also they did mismanage how they handled the marketing and sales of their console which cost them US$400 Million dollars.
@@selimcihaner8668 I am still a big Sega fan as much as the original heavyweight champion Atari along with Nintendo. I hope Atari and Sega team up with Nintendo to compete with Sony and Microsoft. Atari and Sega like Nintendo are among the original heavyweight champions of video games.
We just got one last year! Never even heard of it until I got interested in video game history and we love it. My dad is a PlayStation guy and has been for my whole childhood. He said he used to love sega but they lost his trust after the surprise Saturn realise.
kentray Swagger I would say the same, that along with my first console the first Nintendo. Nostalgia :) Dreamcast was way better than PlayStation at the time IMO
Just buy a dreamcast and download games to a cd-r and they will play and you won't have to wait for some shit mini console that has 20 games.....why are people so fucking retartded
sadly that's what there issue was, far a head of the hardware that it was the cost that killed them. I have imports of x-men vs street fighter and marvel vs street fighter for the Saturn at the time when it was on the psx and you couldn't even swap players.
True, and I also believe it was the first gaming system to standardize online game-play. Yes, out the box it had the capability to go online and you could play against other people over the internet.
My best friend had one that his dad bought at a garage sale. I had a n64 and I remeber thining to myself while playing with him, damn these are great graphics
I would still play my Dreamcast if it never conked out on me. I bought a second one, but then the PS2 came out and I bought one of those. Then Sega stopped releasing titles for the Dreamcast, so I stuck with the PS2. I wish I had kept my Dreamcast and all the games though. Metropolis Street Racer was awesome.
What killed the dream-cast? The same thing that killed SEGA... being ahead of their time!! The only reason SEGA died is because gamers did not realise what they had... So many firsts... don't think any other company beats them when it comes to innovation... I still shed tears... Why couldn't it have been nintendo??? WHY???? WHY?!?!?!?!
+Erick Quinones True... It's a business-mistake to try to make good games for your customers. The true way is to make games for your investors. Little money in. Lotta money out. But I gotta give it to Nintendo, the thing with mario-maker was quite genius. They do have the occasional Gem. But not that full-on ahead of their time thing SEGA always had. Their mistake was releasing their technology 5 years to early... they had games on CDs when people hadn't even accepted CDs replacing LPs fully yet... When people on PC switched from Floppy to CD... that early...
liquidminds No sega wasnt good all the time the thing sega did wrong was competing vs a juggernaut not only was mario always more popular but nintendo has more classics Gameboy,Gamecube,wii,Ds,Etc Mario Zelda Fire emblem Pikmin Etc.. Yes sega did release tech too early hut the fact they got to ambitious in bringing out content to compete with nintendo which was dumb Also Xbox Ps2 Were killing the market very revolutionary era
If being ahead of your time killed you automatically, no one would know the name Steve Jobs. SEGA was killed by business incompetence. They had a great product in the Genesis that blew the NES out of the water and beat Nintendo at bringing gaming to the living room. Sadly, SEGA rode that Genesis cock way too hard, making add-on after add-on that quickly skyrocketed the price of the system heads above the competition. If you didn't own a Genesis, SEGA didn't have a product for you for quite a long time until the Saturn released. (Unless you wanted a Game Gear, which ate batteries like a monster and felt like a brick in your pocket - Even more than the original grey Game Boys) Speaking of competition, once the SNES came out the Genesis was sunk. The SNES hardware beat just about everything the Genesis had (including "Blast Processing" which it turns out wasn't even a thing) and the mindbogglingly huge library of games for the SNES absolutely crushed the many arcade ports and numerous Sonic titles SEGA made their foundation on. There was just so many more games to be played on the SNES; and MANY of those games were exclusives that would go on to be remembered as some of the best games of all time. (You won't find Chrono Trigger on the Genesis) In addition, and something the video barely touched on, SEGA releasing the Saturn early wasn't just bad for the game developers and consumers. It was also bad for retailers, who got screwed stocking a product that arrived significantly ahead of schedule. This naturally pissed those guys off. So when it came time to stock the Dreamcast four years later, those retailers put them up on the tops of high shelves or hidden in corners or down by your feet. This is a tactic that helped put nails in the Dreamcast's coffin, since if you can't see a product you're less likely to buy it. Don't piss off Walmart, or they have ways to make sure your product won't sell as well as it could. In a way, SEGA being incompetent stretches even to today, where they whore out the only thing they have left for brand recognition (Sonic the Hedgehog) to any third party developer who asks nicely and doesn't work in their mom's basement. Don't get me wrong, other companies like Nintendo have been known to hand over their own characters once in a while (Zelda CDI games, yeesh) but they always manage to save those character's reputation by consistently making great games with them. SEGA has really struggled to produce great Sonic games consistently. It's going to take a while to undo the damage things like Sonic Boom or the hilariously sloppy "Sonic 25th Anniversary" did to Sonic's image. Honestly, the best thing SEGA could do for the Blue Blur now is to just let him retire in peace.
Still play Dreamcast to this day. One of my favorite consoles and probably my first taste of true online gameplay besides pc. I’ll never forget the first time I played nfl 2k against a person across the country. It was mind blowing at the time and paved the way for Xbox live nowadays
If Sega never hired that game console killer guy and included DVD features they would still be in the console business today. Whoever the technical manager who said gd-rom was a good idea should have been fired.
wrong person, I wrote the CEO who said no one liked RPGs, meanwhile FF7 sold over a million copies quickly. GD rom was a good idea at the time since the DVD hadn't been invented yet... or so I thought before more research.
I partially agree with you, but that wasn't the only issues. I doubt even if DC had DVD capabilities, they needed so much more in terms of software genre types especially in comparison to the PS2. There are more issues, but those had happened way before the DC even came out, but who knows the what if's.
just download emulator DEmul. It plays most of the time 60fps or you can get Dolphin version Skies of Arcadia locked at 30fps on your computer. You're welcome
Hands down Skies of Arcadia was and still is my favourite game ever. I've never been more disappointed to have completed a game in my life. I've given up any hope of Sega developing a sequel or even a remake.
Graham Taylor The controller was actually very stylish and comfortable, it was just out of date for that generation for First Person Shooters (only one joystick, using buttons to walk in Quake took some getting used to!)
@@grahamtaylor8912 I'm sorry, did i hear "shitty library" there's barely any bad games on that console. Sure, most haven't aged the best but they're really fun
@@rockstopsthetraffic exactly. Microsoft made it easy to put them out of business and then entered the gaming world the very next year in 2001 with the xbox
The Dreamcast sold 10 million in a short amount of time. The PS2 sold 155 million after over 10 years. Kind of an unfair comparison. The sales figures for the Gamecube and Xbox weren't much better. The PS2 was just too much for the others to handle, which is a shame.
Actually, the Dreamcast sold 9.18 million in 8 years (1999-2007). The PS2 sold 10.61 million in 1 year (2000-2001). Sources: vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2 vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Dreamcast Edit: And yes, while the Gamecube and Xbox didn't do as well as the PS2, the Dreamcast is not a very good comparison, considering the Gamecube sold more units in 1.5 years than the Dreamcast sold in 8. vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Xbox
Contrary to what most narratives would have you believe, the PS2 was NOT the Dreamcast's primary competition. The Dreamcast spent the majority of it's active competitive lifespan, 1998-2001 (yes it was released in late 1998 in Japan) up against the N64 and PS1, and it wasn't even able to garner a larger market than either of those within that timespan. By the 2000 holiday season, Sega had actually sold around 3.5 million units worldwide, which was infamous for 2 reasons; 1) Sega actually had more Dreamcasts still in their inventory then they had sold. 2) They had just released Shenmue and for Sega to recoup the production costs for that game (let alone turn a profit) they needed every single active Dreamcast owner at the time to buy the game.... TWICE. The "9-11 million consoles sold" that go around were actually accumulated after Sega officially discontinued the Dreamcast platform and shifted their remaining stock after persistent price slashes, here in the UK some retailers were actually selling brand new Dreamcast consoles for £29.99 (which is less than 50 USD) by mid/late 2002. Effectively Sega were hoping for the Dreamcast to have some kind of Wii effect on the gaming industry, and unfortunately for them, it didn't.
strykah92 You have some good info, but I specifically remember the PS2 being the primary competition. Upon release there was no PS2, so that's fair; however upon release of the PS2, I conciously (and regretfully) purchased a PS2 in opposition to the Dreamcast. Unfortunately less than a year after release the PS2 was promoting the DVD player, so I waited a few months and made that decision. In Japan things were probably different, but in the US, the PS2 was specifically the Dreamcast killer.
Socky Noob: Nah, its a legit comparison. The PS2 reached the 100 million consoles sold in 2005. the dreamcast lasted close to 2.5 yrs, meaning the Dreamcast reallly didn't stand a chance.
1:06 Soul Calibur is still a great game... i just played it once again on emulator last year and its still one of the BEST fightning games. 10/10 playability. Hard to believe it was made in 1999... cuz the game graphics looks like from 2005 :)
Considering how many games that came out on SEGA consoles were just far beyond amazing and how few gems you find these days, it's really a painful memory...
I loved my Dreamcast. Had a subscription to the Official Dreamcast magazine also. It was larger than other magazines and came with a game demo CD each month. Was awesome.
yeah ps2 was 1.5x faster, but also also more efficient in other ways, twice the ram too, but much harder to program for. If you pushed the ps2, it was probably about double the speed of the dreamcast, gamecube slightly faster, xbox faster still.
@@SRPC21 "soon" . . . to be fair I wouldn't call after the Dreamcast was no longer in production soon in terms of impact on the console, regardless of how much time had technically passed. At that point it doesn't change anything for the Dreamcast sales etc. Same for Shenmue 2 (no Shenmue 1 anytime soon after the original though). The amazing music/sound is so f**ked up on the Gamecube release I wouldn't do that to my ears. On balance I would always choose the Dreamcast version even with the supposed "improvements" on the GC - and I do always choose this, as I have both versions but got half way through the GC one and never played it again.
Its specs were almost the exact same a bit more powerful but almost the exact same. The Dreamcast just had better quality games. The gamecube on the other hand is 10 times more powerful than the PS2 and DC. The original Xbox 40 to 50 times if I am not mistaken. But people thought and still do obviously that the PS2 was more powerful since it was released later. Which is not the case.
The Dreamcast is my all time favorite gaming platform with the BEST games ever!!! Sonic adventure is so good you should find a working Dreamcast and get it along with Soul Caliber, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi.......you get the picture. A working Dreamcast with a good selection of the best games ever is heaven to anyone who appreciates gaming.
Sega Dreamcast classic edition?! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!........... And this time have it play games from; Europe, North America and Japan! Stop all this region bullsh%t and let folks play the retro titles without all the crap from the past of either chipping a system or having to run a special CD to overcome the firmware and drive capacity to get a damn foreign game to run properly! "Sega Dreamcast classic edition" Universally played anywhere's!
Don’t we all just love the Dreamcast? Because I do! Young kids who were born a few years before 2022 won’t be able to experience wonders us Gen Z kids experienced in our childhoods, such as owning the beautiful and totally awesome gaming console we love and care for so much. :3
I actually liked the Evolution games that were released on it, it also got Grandia 2 and 3 which were fun, and Skies of Arcadia which though I never played looked great on the system. Power Stone was also a good game for a fighting game, I also liked the controller better than the ps2 controller, but now it just looks awkward to me. I miss the Dreamcast and have thought of getting another and this video just makes me want to go buy one now, was a good system for the time, and while I never looked at specs then I remember people saying in regards to power Dreamcast > PS2 but I don't know if that is true I never cared at all.
Agon Leed I wonder when SHENMUE 3 will come out. I hope it has good voice acting for once. The original games came out when voice acting was still new and it shows. The voice acting is hilariously bad! 😂
I can't believe he didn't mention DVD capability, that played a huge part. It wasn't much more expensive to buy a PS2 than it was to buy a decent DVD player at the time. Sony did the same thing with Blu Ray on the PS3 but the format itself was far less popular.
no DVD player had nothing to do with it. dvd was too expensive at the time. keep in mind the dreamcasts development started in the mid 90s when dvd players were priced through the roof selling for 1000 bucks a pop. sure they couldve added it in later, but that wouldve been a disaster. the true killer was the ps2 juggernaut
It was no DVD compatibility and no EA Sports. DVD had EVERYTHING to do with it. Have you truly forgotten what the movie renting landscape was like back in 2000 and 2001? Have you truly forgotten how Madden alone used to push systems? Many people seem to forget or not realize that DVD did not overtake VHS in sales in USA until January of 2002, and even then VHS pretty much held half the sales. It doesn't matter when the Dreamcast was developed. The reality was it was playing in the ball field of the early 2000s, and DVD was a phenomenon of a format. Suddenly everyone had to have it. The PS2 was the first DVD player in so many peoples households. It's a shame because the Dreamcast was the better console and the games were breathtaking at the time and still hold up today
TRJ2241987 as i said... development started in the mid 90s, adding dvd was impossible. are you seriously gonna sit here and say if the dreamcast had dvd capabilities that it wouldve done better? the xbox sold a measly 25 mil units and they utilized dvd, so there goes that argument.
Man I miss my dreamcast. I remember I bought it day one with airforce delta and soul calibur and literally didn't stop playing it for months. So many great memories.
In retrospect while the DVD capability has been mentioned, backwards compatibility with PSX was also a big thing for PS2. The PSX had an assload of games on it and they were still made for some time after the PS2 coming out. I mean if I recall correctly, FFIX pretty much came out around the same time the PS2 came out.
It's all Sega's own fault, sadly, if they didn't expend so much money on add ons for the Genesis and left behind the Saturn like the time and money invest into it doesn't matter, i think they yet could had enough to keep supporting the Dreamcast in the long run
@@thetabbyguy921 SEGA failed b/c they tried so hard to forget the Genesis existed. Seriously. What happened to all the first party titles from the Genesis days? The Saturn was too dependent on Arcade ports while the Genesis had 3rd party companies of all kinds. Plus it was cheaper & it actually featured Sonic, the xompany's Mascot.
The Sega Genesis was my last game console. I was mostly a computer gamer back in the 80's and 90's (C64/Amiga 500/PC from then on) but the Genesis and the brand of Sega always has had a special place in my heart. It would have been nice to see them thrive as a console manufacturer to this day.
I bought a dreamcast when it first dropped. Even before I got a PS2, I really wanted the console to succeed. It was an awesome machine and had such great potential. Resident Evil Code Veronica was amazing when it dropped.
It failed because of 2 things, not having an incorporated dvd player being a CD based system (people saw it as lame because Sega was known as a company that had games for grownups) and the success of the PS1, which was MASSIVE and maybe, that alone gave Sony the confidence to rise above everyone else, giving consumers a sort of security in their future PS2 product.
Not console after console. The 32x and CDx we both inexpensive add-ons that weren't really needed. Only a handful of 32x only games were released and the add-on increased graphical display. The CDx was almost a stand alone, but no decent releases came to it and it's life shortened by sega next console, The Saturn. The Saturn lasted 5 years, and by Sony's current standard, is a consoles full usable life. Yes, Sony. The Saturn was a great success all in all, but it competed against Sony which amassed fanboys from Nintendo's dying brand, and due to a near head on competition, the dreamcast was released at a bad time. In the end of its time, dreamcast sales started to soar by sega had already chosen to pull the plug.
@HyperDragon Kevinator I don't know, I found it comfortable for me, but the Saturn pad is even more comfy lol. I'm obviously referring to model 2 controllers lol.
They abused their customers by making them buy too many failed systems (32x, sega CD, Saturn). Sega became synonymous with wasting money, and people smartened up. This was 100% on Sega.
Just grab the Redream emulator, if you have an Android device that is. It's not 100% compatible but it is pretty damn close. Having my Dreamcast library in my pocket is amazing. Use a bluetooth controller like the Saitake STK-7007 and you really do have a portable Dreamcast.
i absolutely adored my dreamcast,still my favorite console to date with so many fun titles,it's also the console i had the most time clocked across all its games even 20 years after it's original release (i had 52,000 hours on pso V2 and another 15 thousand hours across all its other titles),loved the memory card they used,was unique at the time.
It just needed a parent company that was not 25 million dollars in debt. DVD technology was prohibitively expensive at the time and made the PS2 twice as expensive. The Dreamcast was also designed with DVD expansion in mind. That debt guaranteed the Dreamcast would have a short life.
Playstation owned the disc media market so it could afford to have a dvd player in it as they made it. I still think it had some amazing games on it and tokyo racer amazing
Had Sega made the Dreamcast backwards compatible with the Sega Saturn games, it would've started off not only with its own titles but had the wealth of the Saturn games as its back catalog to keep and maintain the interest in it as a powerful games console. It died from lacking support from Sega, and thus Sega should've been smarter in making sure it had more to go with from the outset when it was first released onto the market. Backwards compatibility allows X-Box One currently to keep pace with PS4 and vastly improve and update its games library! This is one of the features, Dreamcast sorely lacked upon release adding to its unfortunate demise in the market against ironically the PS1 and later PS2 which it mainly competed against and lost!
In order for the DC to be compatible with Saturn Hardware, the DC would have had a launch price of at least $500 and been the size of a VCR. What they should have done is converted all of their best selling Saturn games to DC format (as in reprogrammed). They weren't going to do that because those on the inside track at Sega already know the DC was only going to live for two years.
Might've been $350 or $375 to $400 U.S. Dollars at the time perhaps? But i think you're going to bit too high with that $500 for early 2000's Dreamcast even if it was made to be backwards compatible with the Saturn games (i.e. something it badly needed). Even back then they did always think about price cuts when it came down to the overall development and cost cutting measures in creating the PCB; gaming boards? of gaming consoles! Lets all remember akin to this great discussion for the Dreamcast video, the PS3 60 Gig first edition brand; originally allowed for backward compatibility with the PS2 software games. Players started out playing PS3 titles alongside the now retro PS2 ones. The chip that made this possible however, was eventually removed because the part on the console board which did this, was very expensive to develop for the console itself. All later PS3's versions were made to not only have 2 USB ports instead of 4? but to also blatantly removed the backwards compatibility of the whole PS3 console. Weird and kinda stupid of Sony huh. it was the only time "backwards compatibility" was tossed aside in favor of major cost cutting measures so prominently in the industry at large over a decade ago. Microsoft is making sure to make up for that mistake he industry made years ago. With X-Box One later becoming "backwards compatible" with the former X-Box 360 titles. An ongoing digital process Microsoft keeps on going today even. I get what you're saying man, but yet still, Dreamcast good as it was came out when Sega Saturn finally built up its incredible library with sick ass great titles. Then the Dreamcast was released to major hype internationally and didn't last nearly as long despite its claims of its internet access something the (then) competing PS2 from Sony didn't even feature? Until it went from PS2 to PS3 and so on. Had the commercial audience known it would've kept the Sega Saturn titles going as well, both might've competed against the PS2 easily until the PS3 came out! Even if the endeavor would've been slightly more costly for Sega who were always extremely innovative anyways, this kind of business decision making would've definitely been worth it in the long run i'd say! Rather than Dreamcast tending to be, looked down upon, and critics and players having tons of ammunition to always throw at its failure in hindsight whenever a discussion comes up in regards to it online!
majesticlizard the could have used software emulation like the ps2 did with ps1 games, and since it had online out of the box they could have pushed out updates
MGSBigBoss77 You are missinformed. It's true they droped the emotion chip due to high cost at first but every PS3 console has nearly perfect PS2 emulation inside. If you use custom firmware you can unlock PS2 compatibility on all PS3 consoles and in many cases it is superior to the emotion cpu, that's why it was droped. Why every PS3 console has a PS2 emulator within their firmware you ask? Because they figured it was cheaper to release PSN games as unaltered ISO's than to convert them and they were right. Nintendo of course was the leader with their Wii Virtual Console games. No need to support hardware compatibility when you have enough power to emulate the system. The Dreamcast was far from being able to support saturns CPUs, SPU and VDP in software.
*The Dreamcast was far from being able to support saturns CPUs, SPU and VDP in software.* Which was its main failure. although innovative the Dreamcast was in many cases rushed out to consumers to meet Sega's business demands, not ours as the players. backward compatibility wasn't impossible if they has waited or reworked the Dreamcast to play the Sega Saturn back catalog of games on the next Sega console for more logical reasons at the end of the day?! Being unable to support the Saturn's CPU, SPU, VDP software speaks volumes doesn't it. Despite the early online promises. I've never truly heard anybody brag about playing Dreamcast games online with one another in the early 2000's. and the fact it wasn't even given a DVD drive, something the PS2 easily had a mere 2 years later in 2002 also speaks of rushing and cutting corners with the console by Sega just to promote its online analog features as groundbreaking at the time and market that off to us consumers. A DVD drive can also read an play CD obviously, so why wasn't that put into a Dreamcast back in 1999? Even though it would've been the earlier red laser versions. Far as the backwards compatibility goes? Thats the first i've heard of it, being a PS3 60 gig user with 4 USB ports, the later models wasn't a focus of mine per se. But i've always heard without the emotion chip they wouldn't play PS2 titles. If its through firmware emulation inside, damn. But then again all later models only had 2 USB ports so its not as if the 60 gig versions loses out is it? in more ways than one the 60 gig still the winner here. With the slight except of the overheating problems it always had unfortunately (i don't game for more than 8 hours or watch films or TV shows for longer than 6 hours on it).
The Dreamcast was easy to develop for, the opposite of PS2. The actual images on Dreamcast were also nicer because of the power of NEC's PowerVR chipset.
I liked the sonic games on the Dreamcast ( Except for Sonic shuffle because its a Mario party clone) ( which is ironic because it was made by the same company)
Still my favourite console to date. From Shenmue, Headunter, Sega rally, Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure and many more. I have so many hours on this console.
I really think piracy is what killed the dreamcast. Back then a lot of my friends that had the sega dreamcast systems, were playing burned copies of the games, instead of the original copies.
Really wrong thinking because Sony proves even years before, thanks to PSX (Playstation One), that piracy leads to incredible incomes due to console selling (the typical situation when hardware beat software) so the company itself founded his economical empire from that. Sony PSX was even modded in hardware only (and that, drove to laser malfunctions after one year, maximum, on trilions of system all around the globe). The only drive replacement (original from Sony only) had a cost of 100 bucks per unit. Half price of the entire console. Dreamcast increased piracy (only via software, with disk protection bypass called "BootLoader") but increased even more the income for Sega in a similar way (not same numbers because many users just waited for PS2) Sony had. The only difference between the two is that Sega was always ahead in hardware quality and never downgraded production material like Sony usually does still today. The Dreamcast was the first and only 128bit system with 8Mb of dedicated VRAM on PowerVR2 chipset (comparable to the power of a 2D/3D Pc VGA mainstream), a real monster for that era and double powered compared to PS2 VRAM. Poly rendering was obviously a limit due to PowerVR GPU, but a lot of 2D games, especially the fighting ones, was absolutely stunning and better than PS2. Audio also was amazing and in many cases beat the ass off PS2. That's it
@@energeticyellow1637 that's true. I learned that while working retail. But console sales would lead to peripheral and software sales. Piracy would still be an issue but it was a big issue on PlayStation as well.
The Dreamcast was always a console I was interested in playing, but never got around to. I just love the design, the VMU setup. Might have to look into finding one at some point.
I'd have to disagree with the general explanation given in this video. Not sure how old the people are that created this, but I suspect the video was created from Wikipedia and other articles rather than actually have played the system when it was out. I got the Dreamcast at launch and I loved the system. There was a huge number of great games on it that you didn't find on other systems and SEGA wasn't relying as much on arcade games like it did with the Saturn (which had Sega Rally, Daytona, Virtual Fighter). That's not to say it didn't have arcade games though. I think many would agree with me that one of the main reasons it failed was because it was so easy to pirate for. I remember a point where it was actually easier for me to buy copied games than it was to find the original games I wanted (I'm not even joking; me and my friend still laugh about this). This is why my collection of games slowly went from being original games to copied games. I'd go into a store like Dixons in the UK and their selection of Dreamcast games was minimal to say the least, yet I could buy every single game on the Dreamcast from the market. This obviously killed the developers and put people off creating games for it. I knew people that bought the console specifically due to the prevalence of pirate games and probably didn't buy on original game. So who killed the Dreamcast? Gamers did. I had never bought pirated games for any console before this but the strange situation of games being more widely available than original games pushed gamers like me to stop buying original games. Shame as it's still one of my favourite consoles (I've still got it).
I got the Dreamcast when it was $20 at a game store. I didn't even know about the pirating thing(a lot of people didn't) and even if I did, this was in the era where most people only had dialup. From what I recall, a lot of what killed the system was people waiting for the PS2 get released, as it was promised to come out sooner than it did. So, a few months wait basically became a year(in the US) and people kept holding out. Moreover, the PS2 promised more than it actually delivered but people didn't know that was going to be the case. I've done a side by side comparison of the same games on PS2 & DC and the DC pretty much always wins that competition.
InfernosReaper You were really lucky to get the Dreamcast, or any console, for only $20. I never downloaded games myself from the internet. They were available in markets and in some shops. Seriously, the shops stopped selling games other than soul calibur etc (which I had) so for obscure games you had to buy pirated ones. It truly was bizarre.
I disagree. The video's explanation for the failure of the Dreamcast matches exactly my memory of events back then - From day one the system was seen as utterly undesirable, because nobody had any confidence whatsoever in Sega after seeing them churn out a long run of messy flops. I felt that way as a young gamer at the time, and so did everyone else I knew. We talked about it extensively and so all looked elsewhere for our next console (or switched to PC). Even Sega diehards didn't trust the thing. I also doubt the hacking issue impacted on sales of the console at all. If anything, it would have boosted sales of the unit if everybody knew you could easily get hold of free games for it. The truth is nobody really did know that, other than a few owners like yourself. The general public just saw an unpopular console from an unreliable manufacturer and chose to buy something else.
Billy Mayer It's good to hear from someone else's perspective. I owned the Saturn and I loved it and myself and my friend Mark were really looking forward to the Dreamcast. I'm from the UK. Are you stateside? Historically, consoles sell differently in different markets. For example, the master system was huge in Europe and Atari did well here long after it was dead in the USA.
Billy Mayer This was 99 and PC gaming wasn't what it was today, so not as many were "making the switch to PC." PCs had hardware/software compatibility issues out the ass even in 99 & didn't have the price-point consoles did at the time. Most of the issues I saw with the dreamcast was that people thought PS2 was coming out sooner than it did & were holding out for that hoping it'd be better. Most of the complaints about the dreamcast were over the controller cable coming out of the controller's bottom instead of top & how expensive the memory card was. Ironically, the dreamcast was graphically superior to the PS2, but I figure the CD-only thing would've ultimately held it back. Kevin Muldoon I got mine in 04, so it was in that sweet spot between stores wanted to get rid of them. So, I got it and some of the good games for about $75. I think the most expensive game I got was Skies of Arcadia for about $15. A couple years ago, I bought a VGA adapter for it and am kinda impressed by how good the system could look.
Reasons why the Dreamcast failed: 1: PlayStation 2 (that doesn't mean the PS2 is a bad console) 2: Stuck with a crappy GD-ROM format 3: Not backwards compatible 4: Barely any third-party support 5: Piracy 6: Sega had a bad reputation with the Saturn and the 32X.
But what Sega didn't realize is that Sony technically created the "loss leader" concept of console selling meaning that it sold every single console at a loss and made up for some of it in game sales which is now the accepted models by all manufacturers. Sega's console could never have been sold at a loss due to the relative size of Sega compared to Sony and Microsoft which had other business ventures to sustain themselves if they failed. You are absolutely right about the other reasons for the Dreamcast failure and especially with the 32X/Saturn debacle, fans did not trust Sega although I feel the Dreamcast did redeem Sega and was one hell of a fantastic console for what it could do with what it has to do it with.
ClassicalGamer also they’re lack in gaming content they were just not as good as ps2 games and gc games at the time . Also DVD player was a factor of Sony’s ps2 success
I'll never forget how amazed I was when I first played it at my cousin's place back in the day. The PS2 was out for a few years and I had one myself but the Dreamcast was still WAY ahead of it when it comes to graphics. I remember playing some Virtua Tennis or what it was called and the people sitting in the crowd were animated better than the players in PS2 sports games (the crowds still looked like cut out of paper there), and Shenmue... it was so vast and ahead of it's time that, when I told my friends back home about it and all the things you could do, I could tell that they were thinking I was BS-ing them.
I’m up late at night watching 1990’s video game videos. I’ve watched: #1. The history of 3DO #2 Why Saturn failed #3 a play through of SHINOBI X #4. A review of PS classic #5. A review of NES classic #6. A review of SNES classic #7. A review of TG16 classic #8. WHY DREAMCAST FAILED
I agree with Kevin Muldoon citing how easy the Dreamcast was to pirate. You didn’t even need a mod chip, you could just download a game, burn it to a cd, and it would just work. Also, the piracy of the Dreamcast was unprecedented, especially at a time when more and more households had access to high speed internet, and CD burners were becoming affordable to the point that everyone could have them in their homes. This, coupled with the “genesis” (no pun intended) of torrenting, it almost seemed like the Dreamcast was meant to be pirated. The piracy epidemic is commonly cited in other explanations of the Dreamcast’s downfall, however, this video never even mentioned it.
Fantastic video. Oh the memories with the Dreamcast. Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Seaman, Crazy Taxi. ChuChu Rocket online LOL it was awesome for it's time.
Seaman is clearly the best game in existance. The only thing that exists that's better is the cement company, Semen Indonesia. (Btw, Semen is actually Indonesian for Cement.)
Sega went kiddy with the grey and white design with happy button colors on the controller when fans always thought of it a a for grownups company, plus no dvd player when being disc based and the pedigree of the PS1.
Yup i know i did, had a big old stack of PS1 games at home which i could play on the PS2, looked at the previews of the PS2 games and was all kinds of happy at what i saw coming and on top of that it could play DVD's which was a real bonus at the time when DVD players weren't cheap. Then of course there was the history of the poor showings with the Saturn and Sega CD with the real lack of a games library which firmly cemented for me that waiting on the PS2 was the smarter option and what i did and got on launch day. I still got the Dreamcast later when the stores were practically giving the things and the games away.
I had a friend that worked at Electronics Boutique, (which turned into EB games which got absorbed into Gamestop) and said the Dreamcast had a 1 in 3 failure rate. It had something to do with the laser disc dislodging itself and a temporary measure would be to power up the console and flip it upside down. Another problem was the VMU's. The memory cards were HIGHLY volatile and if the battery ran out or it received a good enough shock, like dropping it on the floor, could erase the data on it. The games were great, the hardware not so much.
I just recently joined a Dreamcast group on facebook and it's so amazing to see the love people have for this console. I just think Sega has made too many mistakes in the past which ultimately caused the console to fail.
i bought the ps2 when i was younger and it was on a whole new level. I loved the dream cast, but it was more of a arcade console, by the time the ps2 hit, the technology was so good already. Just look at GTA 3 and Vice City.
Nick, Sega US and Japan couldn't get it together. The Saturn was fantastic, and Sega US should have forgotten the 32x and all the bullshit add ons. Saturn was on par with PS1 and Dreamcast was on par with PS2. Dreamcast would have been better served here in America if Saturn was the predecessor of the Genesis.
The Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite consoles. I started collecting for it just a few years ago. It's a great system all together which basically brings the arcade games to your house. It does lack rpgs which is a bummer but for that I play my PS2 instead. I think Sega should bring out a system maybe not naming it the DC2 would be a better idea.
Skies of Arcadia ! best game ever :) No Zelda breath of the wild is .. Since when ? now just stop waving that game too much around it may Break course of it's stupid awfull durability ! :D
Hey go play Soul Calibur in an Arcade and tell me again it was just like the Dreamcast port. What was astounding for the Dreamcast port is that the graphics were leaps ahead of the arcade version, the arcade one looks like a PS1 game. Namco totally overhauled it and showed what the Dreamcast was capable of, when I got it on Dreamcast after playing it at the local mall arcade it was surprising how much better it looked. It's a shame they didn't support it much beyond that game. It also made Sega's own Virtua Fighter 3tb for the system look outdated graphically.
We kinda love the Dreamcast.
gameranx nice
It's all about the apple game machine
gameranx who cares ! This shit is long gone
gameranx didn't microsoft buy sega
It may be old but it is probably one of the greatest consoles ever. The games were way ahead of their time and so much fun
The dreamcast was that rare example where the dreamcast didn't let the gamers down, the gamers let the dreamcast down
I would not say that fully it was a hell of console with lots of features and potential. Though features are only as good as they are accessible along with that games for dream cast were few and far between I remember spending months looks for games like gauntlet,pso,powestone ,mdk1/2 as most games not being 1st party were rarely stocked.
getting Piracy games was also very common with Dreamcast owners too which also affected the death of the Dreamcast. :(
Carlos Sanchez ~Absolutely right!!
SweetDangos You are absolutely wright my friend. Many SEGA traitors turned back on the Dreamcast went buy the PS2 & Gamecube for a example.
Josue Ortiz Right*
I liked the Dreamcast. A very underrated system.
The Dreamcast was a very good system, but Sega had bad luck with the intense competition from Sony and Nintendo in the console market. Also they did mismanage how they handled the marketing and sales of their console which cost them US$400 Million dollars.
Roger Stephen Roth oh really? Didn’t know that like he didn’t say it in the fucking video smh
@@selimcihaner8668 I am still a big Sega fan as much as the original heavyweight champion Atari along with Nintendo. I hope Atari and Sega team up with Nintendo to compete with Sony and Microsoft. Atari and Sega like Nintendo are among the original heavyweight champions of video games.
I still play with my Dreamcast in 2020.
So do I !
I just got 1 2day
Reicast!
I want one 😢😭
We just got one last year! Never even heard of it until I got interested in video game history and we love it. My dad is a PlayStation guy and has been for my whole childhood. He said he used to love sega but they lost his trust after the surprise Saturn realise.
Im not going to lie, I had the best feeling of playing video games with the Dreamcast than I ever had in my whole life!
Yep same here, that and the original Xbox and KOTOR
kentray Swagger I would say the same, that along with my first console the first Nintendo. Nostalgia :) Dreamcast was way better than PlayStation at the time IMO
In a few day I will buy one DC and four more games (I already bought two). The nostalgia will be awesome.
kentray Swagger same
Amen bro..
Playing Shenmue on the Dreamcast was so so good
Right and when it came out on Xbox one and ps4 I preordered it when it was announced.
Such an immersive game
Dreamcast mini is rumored to release 2021 😁 nostalgia is tingling.
Really?
Can't wait for the knock-off systems that play NES games.
Wait really were did you get that info.. I need it!
Just buy a dreamcast and download games to a cd-r and they will play and you won't have to wait for some shit mini console that has 20 games.....why are people so fucking retartded
I’m so happy that I finally own a Dreamcast 😌
The Sega Dreamcast was sooo ahead of its time... Like Michael Jordan popping up on an NBA court in 1969.
Troof
true
except that control pad it went 10 years backwards
Incredibly stupid comparison and a deep insult to Michael Jordan. You and the 233 people who liked this have baby brains
Michael Jordan?...1969??
who makes these thumbnails?! because we need to talk
Mikey Geb are you a soccer mom that caught your son that clicked on this video
more like, a soccer mom created the thumbnail lol. (but it's not clickbaity, it's pretty much "dead" on)
Right? It's hurting my eyes
i hate every thumbnail from gameranx. except the "before you buy"
Actually I like them, they're just ridiculous
*Dreamcast was way ahead of its time*
ContactingTheDead been saying that for years!!
sadly that's what there issue was, far a head of the hardware that it was the cost that killed them. I have imports of x-men vs street fighter and marvel vs street fighter for the Saturn at the time when it was on the psx and you couldn't even swap players.
True, and I also believe it was the first gaming system to standardize online game-play. Yes, out the box it had the capability to go online and you could play against other people over the internet.
ContactingTheDead stone age consumers maybe... uga uga ps2 uga uga dvd... stupid people.
it was, but it was designed at a time where speeds were just about to ramp up exponentially
I was a PlayStation guy, who bought a Dreamcast! I was impressed by the graphics! Sega need another Dreamcast! And stop making 2k weak!
I'm the only person I know who owned a Dreamcast. I'll never forget
Kingomegared I knew two people that had one.
My best friend had one that his dad bought at a garage sale. I had a n64 and I remeber thining to myself while playing with him, damn these are great graphics
I had two. Lol
Still play my dreamcast
Smokeweed
@@flatbushmassachusetts8518 i am already
@@marlonbrans3567 puff, puff, pass 💭
I would still play my Dreamcast if it never conked out on me. I bought a second one, but then the PS2 came out and I bought one of those. Then Sega stopped releasing titles for the Dreamcast, so I stuck with the PS2. I wish I had kept my Dreamcast and all the games though. Metropolis Street Racer was awesome.
Troof
What killed the dream-cast? The same thing that killed SEGA... being ahead of their time!!
The only reason SEGA died is because gamers did not realise what they had... So many firsts... don't think any other company beats them when it comes to innovation... I still shed tears... Why couldn't it have been nintendo??? WHY???? WHY?!?!?!?!
liquidminds cause NINTEN DONT
MAKE MISTAKES LIKE SEGA SHITTY ASS ADVANCEMENTS LIKE WTF
+Erick Quinones True... It's a business-mistake to try to make good games for your customers. The true way is to make games for your investors. Little money in. Lotta money out.
But I gotta give it to Nintendo, the thing with mario-maker was quite genius. They do have the occasional Gem. But not that full-on ahead of their time thing SEGA always had. Their mistake was releasing their technology 5 years to early... they had games on CDs when people hadn't even accepted CDs replacing LPs fully yet... When people on PC switched from Floppy to CD... that early...
liquidminds No sega wasnt good all the time the thing sega did wrong was competing vs a juggernaut not only was mario always more popular but nintendo has more classics Gameboy,Gamecube,wii,Ds,Etc
Mario
Zelda
Fire emblem
Pikmin
Etc..
Yes sega did release tech too early hut the fact they got to ambitious in bringing out content to compete with nintendo which was dumb
Also
Xbox
Ps2
Were killing the market very revolutionary era
If being ahead of your time killed you automatically, no one would know the name Steve Jobs.
SEGA was killed by business incompetence. They had a great product in the Genesis that blew the NES out of the water and beat Nintendo at bringing gaming to the living room. Sadly, SEGA rode that Genesis cock way too hard, making add-on after add-on that quickly skyrocketed the price of the system heads above the competition. If you didn't own a Genesis, SEGA didn't have a product for you for quite a long time until the Saturn released. (Unless you wanted a Game Gear, which ate batteries like a monster and felt like a brick in your pocket - Even more than the original grey Game Boys)
Speaking of competition, once the SNES came out the Genesis was sunk. The SNES hardware beat just about everything the Genesis had (including "Blast Processing" which it turns out wasn't even a thing) and the mindbogglingly huge library of games for the SNES absolutely crushed the many arcade ports and numerous Sonic titles SEGA made their foundation on. There was just so many more games to be played on the SNES; and MANY of those games were exclusives that would go on to be remembered as some of the best games of all time. (You won't find Chrono Trigger on the Genesis)
In addition, and something the video barely touched on, SEGA releasing the Saturn early wasn't just bad for the game developers and consumers. It was also bad for retailers, who got screwed stocking a product that arrived significantly ahead of schedule. This naturally pissed those guys off. So when it came time to stock the Dreamcast four years later, those retailers put them up on the tops of high shelves or hidden in corners or down by your feet. This is a tactic that helped put nails in the Dreamcast's coffin, since if you can't see a product you're less likely to buy it. Don't piss off Walmart, or they have ways to make sure your product won't sell as well as it could.
In a way, SEGA being incompetent stretches even to today, where they whore out the only thing they have left for brand recognition (Sonic the Hedgehog) to any third party developer who asks nicely and doesn't work in their mom's basement. Don't get me wrong, other companies like Nintendo have been known to hand over their own characters once in a while (Zelda CDI games, yeesh) but they always manage to save those character's reputation by consistently making great games with them. SEGA has really struggled to produce great Sonic games consistently. It's going to take a while to undo the damage things like Sonic Boom or the hilariously sloppy "Sonic 25th Anniversary" did to Sonic's image. Honestly, the best thing SEGA could do for the Blue Blur now is to just let him retire in peace.
TheKrossRoads you sir deserve a standing ovation. 👌🔥
Still play Dreamcast to this day. One of my favorite consoles and probably my first taste of true online gameplay besides pc. I’ll never forget the first time I played nfl 2k against a person across the country. It was mind blowing at the time and paved the way for Xbox live nowadays
If Sega never hired that game console killer guy and included DVD features they would still be in the console business today. Whoever the technical manager who said gd-rom was a good idea should have been fired.
Bernie Stolar
wrong person, I wrote the CEO who said no one liked RPGs, meanwhile FF7 sold over a million copies quickly. GD rom was a good idea at the time since the DVD hadn't been invented yet... or so I thought before more research.
I partially agree with you, but that wasn't the only issues. I doubt even if DC had DVD capabilities, they needed so much more in terms of software genre types especially in comparison to the PS2.
There are more issues, but those had happened way before the DC even came out, but who knows the what if's.
@@davidreimer9637 DVD: 1997. Sega Dreamcast: 1998 (JP) 1999 (NA)
Chris Thomas: nah Stolar was not the reason the Saturn failed. The console was doing poorly before he join
I miss my Dreamcast. Skies of Arcadia is one of the best JRPGs ever made.
Hijynx87 I literally scrolled through the comments to see if it would get a shout out. Sky's of Arcadia is probably my favorite game ever.
skies of acadia was an amazing game! loved the crap out of the ship battles!
just download emulator DEmul. It plays most of the time 60fps or you can get Dolphin version Skies of Arcadia locked at 30fps on your computer. You're welcome
Hands down Skies of Arcadia was and still is my favourite game ever. I've never been more disappointed to have completed a game in my life. I've given up any hope of Sega developing a sequel or even a remake.
Alucard8319 Or get reicast on your a droid phone.
everytime i hear the word dreamcast i get flashbacks the good ones tho
Nothing will ever make sense out of the failure of the Dreamcast. It was amazing in every way.
Unless you look at it objectively. Lack of DVD player, shitty library of games and the worst controller ever. Great machine otherwise..
Graham Taylor The controller was actually very stylish and comfortable, it was just out of date for that generation for First Person Shooters (only one joystick, using buttons to walk in Quake took some getting used to!)
@@SRPC21 no it wasn't. Especially the stick, it was too sharp and it used to hurt like hell after less than 1 hour of play. Bad design.
Yautah I guess it was an acquired taste, I have quite big hands which is probably why I found it comfortable.
@@grahamtaylor8912 I'm sorry, did i hear "shitty library" there's barely any bad games on that console.
Sure, most haven't aged the best but they're really fun
You could burn discs. I got 40 new games in 1 day for $9.99 dvd-rw
Yes. Microsoft built a loophole into the operating system. Sega outsourced their OS to Microsoft. This is why they failed.
Chimp Travel Dreamcast couldn’t read or write the DVD format in any sense.
Lies, Dreamcast comes in GD-Rom basically CD-rom with two layers.
You think it was a setup, to then pillage Sega for Microsoft's own entry into the gaming?
@@rockstopsthetraffic exactly. Microsoft made it easy to put them out of business and then entered the gaming world the very next year in 2001 with the xbox
The Dreamcast sold 10 million in a short amount of time. The PS2 sold 155 million after over 10 years. Kind of an unfair comparison. The sales figures for the Gamecube and Xbox weren't much better. The PS2 was just too much for the others to handle, which is a shame.
Socky Noob ofc it's a fair comparison, it's not like the dreamcast has only been out for 1 year while ps2 was out for 10
Actually, the Dreamcast sold 9.18 million in 8 years (1999-2007). The PS2 sold 10.61 million in 1 year (2000-2001).
Sources:
vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2
vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Dreamcast
Edit: And yes, while the Gamecube and Xbox didn't do as well as the PS2, the Dreamcast is not a very good comparison, considering the Gamecube sold more units in 1.5 years than the Dreamcast sold in 8.
vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube
vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Xbox
Contrary to what most narratives would have you believe, the PS2 was NOT the Dreamcast's primary competition. The Dreamcast spent the majority of it's active competitive lifespan, 1998-2001 (yes it was released in late 1998 in Japan) up against the N64 and PS1, and it wasn't even able to garner a larger market than either of those within that timespan. By the 2000 holiday season, Sega had actually sold around 3.5 million units worldwide, which was infamous for 2 reasons;
1) Sega actually had more Dreamcasts still in their inventory then they had sold.
2) They had just released Shenmue and for Sega to recoup the production costs for that game (let alone turn a profit) they needed every single active Dreamcast owner at the time to buy the game.... TWICE.
The "9-11 million consoles sold" that go around were actually accumulated after Sega officially discontinued the Dreamcast platform and shifted their remaining stock after persistent price slashes, here in the UK some retailers were actually selling brand new Dreamcast consoles for £29.99 (which is less than 50 USD) by mid/late 2002.
Effectively Sega were hoping for the Dreamcast to have some kind of Wii effect on the gaming industry, and unfortunately for them, it didn't.
strykah92 You have some good info, but I specifically remember the PS2 being the primary competition. Upon release there was no PS2, so that's fair; however upon release of the PS2, I conciously (and regretfully) purchased a PS2 in opposition to the Dreamcast. Unfortunately less than a year after release the PS2 was promoting the DVD player, so I waited a few months and made that decision. In Japan things were probably different, but in the US, the PS2 was specifically the Dreamcast killer.
Socky Noob: Nah, its a legit comparison. The PS2 reached the 100 million consoles sold in 2005. the dreamcast lasted close to 2.5 yrs, meaning the Dreamcast reallly didn't stand a chance.
I miss Sega
It still here brah
I meant SEGA the hardware manufacturer
Before I watch this video who misses Soul Caliber and Grandia 2?
1:06 Soul Calibur is still a great game... i just played it once again on emulator last year and its still one of the BEST fightning games. 10/10 playability. Hard to believe it was made in 1999... cuz the game graphics looks like from 2005 :)
@@QLTD Yep. I'm sad I never actually played the real SEGA.
The Dresmcast was an amazing system. Spent hours playing Soul Calibur and Shenmue!
When I see my beloved Dreamcast and Sega Saturn 😿
Powerstone 👌
I WOULD BUY A DREAMCAST 2 IN A FLASH
...and its crafting system
soul calibur 1
Shenmue
The closest to going super saiyan in a game I ever had plus it just was the best freakin fighting game
oh my god powerstone on the dreamcast was one of the best games!
tgobasketball & project justice & spawn game as well!!
Considering how many games that came out on SEGA consoles were just far beyond amazing and how few gems you find these days, it's really a painful memory...
liquidminds I Completely agree!
powerstone mdk1 and 2 pso(phansty star online) was hella good and hella fun
Why WAS ??? I'm still playing powerstone 2 on my dreamcast.
I'm with you 💯. I miss sega, and the Dreamcast was ahead of it's time. I can say the same for the Sega CD.
That was a great console, I still have it. IMHO it was ahead of its time.
That Dreamcast intro just pulls me back to the good times in life :D
It was ahead of its time.
Sometimes its better to wait until an idea or technology is ready for primetime rather than being first to market with it!
Innovator's dilemma exemplified.
ahead of its time and cant play dvd
facts I I thought the VMU unit was so cool back then.
Dude it’s just basically updated n64 graphics... That 3D modeling existed in the 90s
I loved my Dreamcast. Had a subscription to the Official Dreamcast magazine also. It was larger than other magazines and came with a game demo CD each month. Was awesome.
Yea i think i still have my stack somewhere along with my EGM's and GamePro's heh
“HOMIE I SAID I HAD A GAMECAST”
🤣🤣
"I said I cant afford it" lol
Julian Davidson lol 😂 Malibu
Seeeegggggaaaaa
Unknown Poop Yep! SEEEEEEEGGGAAAAA- *Loses Voice* (Fuck.)
seeaaggaarrghh
It's because it didn't have blast processing.
...and it's maker didn't have "lies broadcasting media channels" :P
It had "Super" Blast Processing
On a serious note, how fast was the DC compared to the 128-bit competition?
It's older so all in all a bit behind, but not that much!
yeah ps2 was 1.5x faster, but also also more efficient in other ways, twice the ram too, but much harder to program for. If you pushed the ps2, it was probably about double the speed of the dreamcast, gamecube slightly faster, xbox faster still.
Skies of Arcadia was worth the price of a Dreamcast purchase imo
Like all the great DC games though, it soon got ported to another system.
@@SRPC21 "soon" . . . to be fair I wouldn't call after the Dreamcast was no longer in production soon in terms of impact on the console, regardless of how much time had technically passed. At that point it doesn't change anything for the Dreamcast sales etc. Same for Shenmue 2 (no Shenmue 1 anytime soon after the original though).
The amazing music/sound is so f**ked up on the Gamecube release I wouldn't do that to my ears. On balance I would always choose the Dreamcast version even with the supposed "improvements" on the GC - and I do always choose this, as I have both versions but got half way through the GC one and never played it again.
1:34 - FAKE! SFA3 never came to the N64!
could you imagine the fatal 4 way console wars that would be going on today if this thing had succeeded?
Technically there is but the PC master race found themselves too powerful and civilize to be part of the console peasant war.
the pc isn't involved in the console wars, so you can just drop the nonsense.
shoulda know this comment would attract pc cucks
Nep Nep would have happened...
(^_^)
Bridgette Jasper Reyes neptunia series would be sega console exclusives, so hell no i don't want that
rest in peace you beautiful machine.
i still have this baby
farisand zerman lel no.. i got it from a present long ago
rest , please many people buy sega dreamcast yet this console is great
RIP? I play every week..
Aymen legitimately it was the ugliest hardware I seen in a long time.
Jet Set/Grind Radio was a masterpiece, I wish the franchise didn't die out like it did.
1. No DVD
2. PS2 coming out
3. Bad reputation of Sega.
Summed it up perfectly.
4. No copyright disk protection
5. Missing major 3rd party support from EA, etc.
6. Bad taste in most people’s mouth from 32x, Saturn.
I miss the Dreamcast and I remember having one and I played it alot and I bought alot of games for it.
The dreamcast wasn't always going to fail. If Dreamcast had DVD capability, it wouldn't have failed.
exactly
Yup. You nailed it.
DVD wouldn't save it against far more powerful hardware that was only a year away.
Its specs were almost the exact same a bit more powerful but almost the exact same. The Dreamcast just had better quality games. The gamecube on the other hand is 10 times more powerful than the PS2 and DC. The original Xbox 40 to 50 times if I am not mistaken. But people thought and still do obviously that the PS2 was more powerful since it was released later. Which is not the case.
Yeah simply the ps2 had murdered the dreamcast
At that time me & my friends were crazy that PS2 will run movies like DVD players so no question of buying any other console
Yup, people thought buying DVD that also can play Games was more efficient than buying separatedly
The Dreamcast is my all time favorite gaming platform with the BEST games ever!!! Sonic adventure is so good you should find a working Dreamcast and get it along with Soul Caliber, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi.......you get the picture. A working Dreamcast with a good selection of the best games ever is heaven to anyone who appreciates gaming.
Soul Edge was technically the first Soul Calibre game FYI.
ComradeCase soul blade
@@JuanVicioGotti No, it is Soul Edge. It was changed to Soul Blade for certain regions.
Sega Dreamcast Must Not Forget
so we just gonna sit here and not mention alpha 3 never released on the n64 lol @1:34
Facts. That's when I took most of the shit this video was saying with a grain of salt.
Sega was ahead of its time in many ways
I still have alot of fond memories playing PSO (Phantasy Star Online) on the system :D
I loved Revolt on the Dreamcast, it was one on my first introductions to gaming. Good memories.
Sega Dreamcast classic edition!!! Take my money!!
God yes, ideally complete with Shenmue I & II.
Sega Dreamcast classic edition?! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!...........
And this time have it play games from; Europe, North America and Japan! Stop all this region bullsh%t and let folks play the retro titles without all the crap from the past of either chipping a system or having to run a special CD to overcome the firmware and drive capacity to get a damn foreign game to run properly! "Sega Dreamcast classic edition" Universally played anywhere's!
BzzZt just shut and take my money.
Classic edition from AtGames LOL
? ? Somebody should make the SEGA Dreamcast Classic Edition a thing.
You know you're too invested in tech when you tear up near the end of the video at 6:30
Don’t we all just love the Dreamcast? Because I do! Young kids who were born a few years before 2022 won’t be able to experience wonders us Gen Z kids experienced in our childhoods, such as owning the beautiful and totally awesome gaming console we love and care for so much. :3
poor dreamcast 😢,although both of my dreamcast systems get plenty of play to this day,thank you power stone 2, virtual tennis,and shenmue 1,2!!
Sembatocus shenmu and power stone are life lol
I actually liked the Evolution games that were released on it, it also got Grandia 2 and 3 which were fun, and Skies of Arcadia which though I never played looked great on the system. Power Stone was also a good game for a fighting game, I also liked the controller better than the ps2 controller, but now it just looks awkward to me. I miss the Dreamcast and have thought of getting another and this video just makes me want to go buy one now, was a good system for the time, and while I never looked at specs then I remember people saying in regards to power Dreamcast > PS2 but I don't know if that is true I never cared at all.
Agon Leed I wonder when SHENMUE 3 will come out. I hope it has good voice acting for once. The original games came out when voice acting was still new and it shows. The voice acting is hilariously bad! 😂
3 things killed the dreamcast...
1- No DVD play capability
2- Poor marketing and sales campaign
3- Piracy
I can't believe he didn't mention DVD capability, that played a huge part. It wasn't much more expensive to buy a PS2 than it was to buy a decent DVD player at the time. Sony did the same thing with Blu Ray on the PS3 but the format itself was far less popular.
Simon Harris also it was expensive as hell.
no DVD player had nothing to do with it. dvd was too expensive at the time. keep in mind the dreamcasts development started in the mid 90s when dvd players were priced through the roof selling for 1000 bucks a pop. sure they couldve added it in later, but that wouldve been a disaster. the true killer was the ps2 juggernaut
It was no DVD compatibility and no EA Sports. DVD had EVERYTHING to do with it. Have you truly forgotten what the movie renting landscape was like back in 2000 and 2001? Have you truly forgotten how Madden alone used to push systems? Many people seem to forget or not realize that DVD did not overtake VHS in sales in USA until January of 2002, and even then VHS pretty much held half the sales. It doesn't matter when the Dreamcast was developed. The reality was it was playing in the ball field of the early 2000s, and DVD was a phenomenon of a format. Suddenly everyone had to have it. The PS2 was the first DVD player in so many peoples households. It's a shame because the Dreamcast was the better console and the games were breathtaking at the time and still hold up today
TRJ2241987 as i said... development started in the mid 90s, adding dvd was impossible. are you seriously gonna sit here and say if the dreamcast had dvd capabilities that it wouldve done better? the xbox sold a measly 25 mil units and they utilized dvd, so there goes that argument.
What a console. It was brilliant and better than anything else at the time.
Great system to go out on SEGA
Man I miss my dreamcast. I remember I bought it day one with airforce delta and soul calibur and literally didn't stop playing it for months. So many great memories.
In retrospect while the DVD capability has been mentioned, backwards compatibility with PSX was also a big thing for PS2. The PSX had an assload of games on it and they were still made for some time after the PS2 coming out. I mean if I recall correctly, FFIX pretty much came out around the same time the PS2 came out.
And FFIX is still one of my favorite's!!!
Not to mention FF8 came out the same day the Dreamcast released as well
It's all Sega's own fault, sadly, if they didn't expend so much money on add ons for the Genesis and left behind the Saturn like the time and money invest into it doesn't matter, i think they yet could had enough to keep supporting the Dreamcast in the long run
*THEY WASTED SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY ON THOSE USELESS ADD-ONS. I WAS LIKE WTF IS THIS? AT THE TIME*
i blame the genesis addons and sonic extreme
@@thetabbyguy921 SEGA failed b/c they tried so hard to forget the Genesis existed. Seriously. What happened to all the first party titles from the Genesis days? The Saturn was too dependent on Arcade ports while the Genesis had 3rd party companies of all kinds. Plus it was cheaper & it actually featured Sonic, the xompany's Mascot.
The Sega Genesis was my last game console. I was mostly a computer gamer back in the 80's and 90's (C64/Amiga 500/PC from then on) but the Genesis and the brand of Sega always has had a special place in my heart. It would have been nice to see them thrive as a console manufacturer to this day.
I bought a dreamcast when it first dropped. Even before I got a PS2, I really wanted the console to succeed. It was an awesome machine and had such great potential. Resident Evil Code Veronica was amazing when it dropped.
It failed because Sega kept shoving out console after console.
It failed because of 2 things, not having an incorporated dvd player being a CD based system (people saw it as lame because Sega was known as a company that had games for grownups) and the success of the PS1, which was MASSIVE and maybe, that alone gave Sony the confidence to rise above everyone else, giving consumers a sort of security in their future PS2 product.
J.C. L. Don't forget about how Dreamcast games were frequently pirated.
Garrick Groover you didnt NEED to buy every console they sold...
ADP1998 and PlayStation games weren’t?
Not console after console. The 32x and CDx we both inexpensive add-ons that weren't really needed. Only a handful of 32x only games were released and the add-on increased graphical display. The CDx was almost a stand alone, but no decent releases came to it and it's life shortened by sega next console, The Saturn. The Saturn lasted 5 years, and by Sony's current standard, is a consoles full usable life. Yes, Sony. The Saturn was a great success all in all, but it competed against Sony which amassed fanboys from Nintendo's dying brand, and due to a near head on competition, the dreamcast was released at a bad time. In the end of its time, dreamcast sales started to soar by sega had already chosen to pull the plug.
Dream cast had great graphics and great controller
Kris Feng 100% correct. Originally I thought the memory card was supposed to be like a mini Gameboy. Still a cool system.
Controller only had one analogue stick which left it behind in 3d games.
@HyperDragon Kevinator I don't know, I found it comfortable for me, but the Saturn pad is even more comfy lol. I'm obviously referring to model 2 controllers lol.
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate Weirdo...
@Britney Miller What the fuck's your problem?
I was 3 years old in 99 the dream cast was my very first game console. This took me back
"What killed the Dreamcast?"
It was DOA right from the get-. Sega was already dying when they launched it.
I would love to see Dreamcast VC support on the Switch!
Dootuz yes !!
Dootuz is that even possible?
Nightfall Wii was a Nintendo console though, the dreamcast isn't.
JiggylikeJello There were Genesis and Turbografx games on the Wii virtual console
They abused their customers by making them buy too many failed systems (32x, sega CD, Saturn). Sega became synonymous with wasting money, and people smartened up. This was 100% on Sega.
Automatonable Yep. Everyone's trust was lost.
Automatonable the CD was a good add on, they just didn’t have a lot of games on it and too many immersive stuff
+GamingTV ps2 killed the Dreamcast
+GamingTV Yes it did. That and the fact that fans lost their trust it sega
+GamingTV meh it seems you know more about this than I do
Still waiting for Dreamcast "2" or Dreamcast Portable.
Just grab the Redream emulator, if you have an Android device that is. It's not 100% compatible but it is pretty damn close. Having my Dreamcast library in my pocket is amazing.
Use a bluetooth controller like the Saitake STK-7007 and you really do have a portable Dreamcast.
@@voteDC i know about emulators, but that's not what i want.
Still, my friend. Still.
i absolutely adored my dreamcast,still my favorite console to date with so many fun titles,it's also the console i had the most time clocked across all its games even 20 years after it's original release (i had 52,000 hours on pso V2 and another 15 thousand hours across all its other titles),loved the memory card they used,was unique at the time.
Dreamcast had really good games. Just needed DVD capability, cause I think that was one of the things PS2 had.
It just needed a parent company that was not 25 million dollars in debt. DVD technology was prohibitively expensive at the time and made the PS2 twice as expensive. The Dreamcast was also designed with DVD expansion in mind. That debt guaranteed the Dreamcast would have a short life.
It never had the games that the PS2 had though. Plus it had a crap controller.
@Erik dying light . Yup, plus then a good quality DVD player cost almost as much as a ps2 anyway.
Playstation owned the disc media market so it could afford to have a dvd player in it as they made it. I still think it had some amazing games on it and tokyo racer amazing
PS2 also (In my Opinion) had a Far bigger and Better Library by the end of it's Lifetime.
Had Sega made the Dreamcast backwards compatible with the Sega Saturn games, it would've started off not only with its own titles but had the wealth of the Saturn games as its back catalog to keep and maintain the interest in it as a powerful games console. It died from lacking support from Sega, and thus Sega should've been smarter in making sure it had more to go with from the outset when it was first released onto the market.
Backwards compatibility allows X-Box One currently to keep pace with PS4 and vastly improve and update its games library! This is one of the features, Dreamcast sorely lacked upon release adding to its unfortunate demise in the market against ironically the PS1 and later PS2 which it mainly competed against and lost!
In order for the DC to be compatible with Saturn Hardware, the DC would have had a launch price of at least $500 and been the size of a VCR. What they should have done is converted all of their best selling Saturn games to DC format (as in reprogrammed). They weren't going to do that because those on the inside track at Sega already know the DC was only going to live for two years.
Might've been $350 or $375 to $400 U.S. Dollars at the time perhaps? But i think you're going to bit too high with that $500 for early 2000's Dreamcast even if it was made to be backwards compatible with the Saturn games (i.e. something it badly needed). Even back then they did always think about price cuts when it came down to the overall development and cost cutting measures in creating the PCB; gaming boards? of gaming consoles!
Lets all remember akin to this great discussion for the Dreamcast video, the PS3 60 Gig first edition brand; originally allowed for backward compatibility with the PS2 software games. Players started out playing PS3 titles alongside the now retro PS2 ones. The chip that made this possible however, was eventually removed because the part on the console board which did this, was very expensive to develop for the console itself.
All later PS3's versions were made to not only have 2 USB ports instead of 4? but to also blatantly removed the backwards compatibility of the whole PS3 console. Weird and kinda stupid of Sony huh. it was the only time "backwards compatibility" was tossed aside in favor of major cost cutting measures so prominently in the industry at large over a decade ago. Microsoft is making sure to make up for that mistake he industry made years ago. With X-Box One later becoming "backwards compatible" with the former X-Box 360 titles. An ongoing digital process Microsoft keeps on going today even.
I get what you're saying man, but yet still, Dreamcast good as it was came out when Sega Saturn finally built up its incredible library with sick ass great titles. Then the Dreamcast was released to major hype internationally and didn't last nearly as long despite its claims of its internet access something the (then) competing PS2 from Sony didn't even feature? Until it went from PS2 to PS3 and so on. Had the commercial audience known it would've kept the Sega Saturn titles going as well, both might've competed against the PS2 easily until the PS3 came out! Even if the endeavor would've been slightly more costly for Sega who were always extremely innovative anyways, this kind of business decision making would've definitely been worth it in the long run i'd say!
Rather than Dreamcast tending to be, looked down upon, and critics and players having tons of ammunition to always throw at its failure in hindsight whenever a discussion comes up in regards to it online!
majesticlizard the could have used software emulation like the ps2 did with ps1 games, and since it had online out of the box they could have pushed out updates
MGSBigBoss77
You are missinformed. It's true they droped the emotion chip due to high cost at first but every PS3 console has nearly perfect PS2 emulation inside. If you use custom firmware you can unlock PS2 compatibility on all PS3 consoles and in many cases it is superior to the emotion cpu, that's why it was droped. Why every PS3 console has a PS2 emulator within their firmware you ask? Because they figured it was cheaper to release PSN games as unaltered ISO's than to convert them and they were right. Nintendo of course was the leader with their Wii Virtual Console games. No need to support hardware compatibility when you have enough power to emulate the system.
The Dreamcast was far from being able to support saturns CPUs, SPU and VDP in software.
*The Dreamcast was far from being able to support saturns CPUs, SPU and VDP in software.*
Which was its main failure. although innovative the Dreamcast was in many cases rushed out to consumers to meet Sega's business demands, not ours as the players. backward compatibility wasn't impossible if they has waited or reworked the Dreamcast to play the Sega Saturn back catalog of games on the next Sega console for more logical reasons at the end of the day?!
Being unable to support the Saturn's CPU, SPU, VDP software speaks volumes doesn't it. Despite the early online promises. I've never truly heard anybody brag about playing Dreamcast games online with one another in the early 2000's. and the fact it wasn't even given a DVD drive, something the PS2 easily had a mere 2 years later in 2002 also speaks of rushing and cutting corners with the console by Sega just to promote its online analog features as groundbreaking at the time and market that off to us consumers. A DVD drive can also read an play CD obviously, so why wasn't that put into a Dreamcast back in 1999? Even though it would've been the earlier red laser versions.
Far as the backwards compatibility goes? Thats the first i've heard of it, being a PS3 60 gig user with 4 USB ports, the later models wasn't a focus of mine per se. But i've always heard without the emotion chip they wouldn't play PS2 titles. If its through firmware emulation inside, damn. But then again all later models only had 2 USB ports so its not as if the 60 gig versions loses out is it? in more ways than one the 60 gig still the winner here. With the slight except of the overheating problems it always had unfortunately (i don't game for more than 8 hours or watch films or TV shows for longer than 6 hours on it).
As a kid who got to play the dreamcast before the ps2, the best way I could describe it is that it felt like a beta to the ps2 in some ways
The Dreamcast was easy to develop for, the opposite of PS2. The actual images on Dreamcast were also nicer because of the power of NEC's PowerVR chipset.
The ps2 MURDERED the dreamcast. Dreamcast is still awesome tho
ps2 murdered my life when I was 5 years the creepy sound like startup and the red screen I am 12 y
Heheh Good boy PS4 •pets PS4•
Cause of GTA3
The dreamcast murdered itself
@@darkmastertaken gta3 wasnt on dreamcast
One of my favorite Dreamcast games was Dynamite Cop
I liked the sonic games on the Dreamcast ( Except for Sonic shuffle because its a Mario party clone) ( which is ironic because it was made by the same company)
I hadn't even heard of Sonic Shuffle 'til a few years ago, but Sonic Adventure was awesome.
What about Sonic Adventure 2?
shadow killer 64 great game
Randomark3087 ME TOO!!!!!
Still my favourite console to date. From Shenmue, Headunter, Sega rally, Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure and many more. I have so many hours on this console.
I really think piracy is what killed the dreamcast. Back then a lot of my friends that had the sega dreamcast systems, were playing burned copies of the games, instead of the original copies.
Really wrong thinking because Sony proves even years before, thanks to PSX (Playstation One), that piracy leads to incredible incomes due to console selling (the typical situation when hardware beat software) so the company itself founded his economical empire from that. Sony PSX was even modded in hardware only (and that, drove to laser malfunctions after one year, maximum, on trilions of system all around the globe). The only drive replacement (original from Sony only) had a cost of 100 bucks per unit. Half price of the entire console. Dreamcast increased piracy (only via software, with disk protection bypass called "BootLoader") but increased even more the income for Sega in a similar way (not same numbers because many users just waited for PS2) Sony had. The only difference between the two is that Sega was always ahead in hardware quality and never downgraded production material like Sony usually does still today. The Dreamcast was the first and only 128bit system with 8Mb of dedicated VRAM on PowerVR2 chipset (comparable to the power of a 2D/3D Pc VGA mainstream), a real monster for that era and double powered compared to PS2 VRAM. Poly rendering was obviously a limit due to PowerVR GPU, but a lot of 2D games, especially the fighting ones, was absolutely stunning and better than PS2. Audio also was amazing and in many cases beat the ass off PS2.
That's it
That hurt sales for sure but there were still only 10 million units sold. If anything piracy could have driven up console sales.
@@whosaidthat84 If I recall, most consoles, including the Dreamcast, were sold at a loss. Companies rely on software sales to turn a profit.
@@energeticyellow1637 that's true. I learned that while working retail. But console sales would lead to peripheral and software sales. Piracy would still be an issue but it was a big issue on PlayStation as well.
Piracy was a part of what killed the dreamcast but not all of it.
The Dreamcast was always a console I was interested in playing, but never got around to. I just love the design, the VMU setup. Might have to look into finding one at some point.
I'd have to disagree with the general explanation given in this video. Not sure how old the people are that created this, but I suspect the video was created from Wikipedia and other articles rather than actually have played the system when it was out.
I got the Dreamcast at launch and I loved the system. There was a huge number of great games on it that you didn't find on other systems and SEGA wasn't relying as much on arcade games like it did with the Saturn (which had Sega Rally, Daytona, Virtual Fighter). That's not to say it didn't have arcade games though.
I think many would agree with me that one of the main reasons it failed was because it was so easy to pirate for.
I remember a point where it was actually easier for me to buy copied games than it was to find the original games I wanted (I'm not even joking; me and my friend still laugh about this). This is why my collection of games slowly went from being original games to copied games. I'd go into a store like Dixons in the UK and their selection of Dreamcast games was minimal to say the least, yet I could buy every single game on the Dreamcast from the market.
This obviously killed the developers and put people off creating games for it. I knew people that bought the console specifically due to the prevalence of pirate games and probably didn't buy on original game.
So who killed the Dreamcast? Gamers did. I had never bought pirated games for any console before this but the strange situation of games being more widely available than original games pushed gamers like me to stop buying original games.
Shame as it's still one of my favourite consoles (I've still got it).
I got the Dreamcast when it was $20 at a game store. I didn't even know about the pirating thing(a lot of people didn't) and even if I did, this was in the era where most people only had dialup.
From what I recall, a lot of what killed the system was people waiting for the PS2 get released, as it was promised to come out sooner than it did. So, a few months wait basically became a year(in the US) and people kept holding out. Moreover, the PS2 promised more than it actually delivered but people didn't know that was going to be the case. I've done a side by side comparison of the same games on PS2 & DC and the DC pretty much always wins that competition.
InfernosReaper You were really lucky to get the Dreamcast, or any console, for only $20.
I never downloaded games myself from the internet. They were available in markets and in some shops. Seriously, the shops stopped selling games other than soul calibur etc (which I had) so for obscure games you had to buy pirated ones. It truly was bizarre.
I disagree. The video's explanation for the failure of the Dreamcast matches exactly my memory of events back then - From day one the system was seen as utterly undesirable, because nobody had any confidence whatsoever in Sega after seeing them churn out a long run of messy flops. I felt that way as a young gamer at the time, and so did everyone else I knew. We talked about it extensively and so all looked elsewhere for our next console (or switched to PC). Even Sega diehards didn't trust the thing.
I also doubt the hacking issue impacted on sales of the console at all. If anything, it would have boosted sales of the unit if everybody knew you could easily get hold of free games for it. The truth is nobody really did know that, other than a few owners like yourself. The general public just saw an unpopular console from an unreliable manufacturer and chose to buy something else.
Billy Mayer It's good to hear from someone else's perspective.
I owned the Saturn and I loved it and myself and my friend Mark were really looking forward to the Dreamcast.
I'm from the UK. Are you stateside?
Historically, consoles sell differently in different markets. For example, the master system was huge in Europe and Atari did well here long after it was dead in the USA.
Billy Mayer This was 99 and PC gaming wasn't what it was today, so not as many were "making the switch to PC." PCs had hardware/software compatibility issues out the ass even in 99 & didn't have the price-point consoles did at the time. Most of the issues I saw with the dreamcast was that people thought PS2 was coming out sooner than it did & were holding out for that hoping it'd be better. Most of the complaints about the dreamcast were over the controller cable coming out of the controller's bottom instead of top & how expensive the memory card was. Ironically, the dreamcast was graphically superior to the PS2, but I figure the CD-only thing would've ultimately held it back.
Kevin Muldoon I got mine in 04, so it was in that sweet spot between stores wanted to get rid of them. So, I got it and some of the good games for about $75. I think the most expensive game I got was Skies of Arcadia for about $15. A couple years ago, I bought a VGA adapter for it and am kinda impressed by how good the system could look.
Reasons why the Dreamcast failed:
1: PlayStation 2 (that doesn't mean the PS2 is a bad console)
2: Stuck with a crappy GD-ROM format
3: Not backwards compatible
4: Barely any third-party support
5: Piracy
6: Sega had a bad reputation with the Saturn and the 32X.
But what Sega didn't realize is that Sony technically created the "loss leader" concept of console selling meaning that it sold every single console at a loss and made up for some of it in game sales which is now the accepted models by all manufacturers. Sega's console could never have been sold at a loss due to the relative size of Sega compared to Sony and Microsoft which had other business ventures to sustain themselves if they failed. You are absolutely right about the other reasons for the Dreamcast failure and especially with the 32X/Saturn debacle, fans did not trust Sega although I feel the Dreamcast did redeem Sega and was one hell of a fantastic console for what it could do with what it has to do it with.
ClassicalGamer also they’re lack in gaming content they were just not as good as ps2 games and gc games at the time . Also DVD player was a factor of Sony’s ps2 success
But the PS2 is the real sole reason let's be honest.
Still remains Sony's highest selling console.of all time.
Piracy? Dude, today you can still find pirated PS2 games on sell where I live. I'd even say that piracy is what made the PS2 so popular here.
Actually, DC sales increased when the copy protection was broken. Piracy never hurts companies. They just think it does.
I'll never forget how amazed I was when I first played it at my cousin's place back in the day. The PS2 was out for a few years and I had one myself but the Dreamcast was still WAY ahead of it when it comes to graphics. I remember playing some Virtua Tennis or what it was called and the people sitting in the crowd were animated better than the players in PS2 sports games (the crowds still looked like cut out of paper there), and Shenmue... it was so vast and ahead of it's time that, when I told my friends back home about it and all the things you could do, I could tell that they were thinking I was BS-ing them.
I remember when i got my Sega Mega Drive (genesis) and played Ghouls n Ghosts all day long...! Sweet memories!
Jim
That magical Christmas when dreamcast ended, I was able to get dozens of games 10 bucks a piece. Amazing Christmas, bittersweet memory...
We Kinda need a DreamCast 2 please
I still have mines!
Cory Tyler Mine.
SixPack Shakur lmao you’re right
Xbox *hust* *hust*
I wish
Going home and playing Quake 3 Arena with my dad on the Dreamcast is one of the greatest memories of my childhood.
I’m up late at night watching 1990’s video game videos.
I’ve watched:
#1. The history of 3DO
#2 Why Saturn failed
#3 a play through of SHINOBI X
#4. A review of PS classic
#5. A review of NES classic
#6. A review of SNES classic
#7. A review of TG16 classic
#8. WHY DREAMCAST FAILED
I agree with Kevin Muldoon citing how easy the Dreamcast was to pirate. You didn’t even need a mod chip, you could just download a game, burn it to a cd, and it would just work. Also, the piracy of the Dreamcast was unprecedented, especially at a time when more and more households had access to high speed internet, and CD burners were becoming affordable to the point that everyone could have them in their homes. This, coupled with the “genesis” (no pun intended) of torrenting, it almost seemed like the Dreamcast was meant to be pirated. The piracy epidemic is commonly cited in other explanations of the Dreamcast’s downfall, however, this video never even mentioned it.
Fantastic video. Oh the memories with the Dreamcast. Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Seaman, Crazy Taxi. ChuChu Rocket online LOL it was awesome for it's time.
Seaman is clearly the best game in existance. The only thing that exists that's better is the cement company, Semen Indonesia. (Btw, Semen is actually Indonesian for Cement.)
chuchu rocket online?
I used to watch my childhood friend play the Dreamcast at his place. He cried at how badly it flopped.
nba 2k1 and the 2k series got me into sports. I still love the arcade feel of those games, getting 300 yards with randy moss, 60 pts with Iverson.
The Playstation 2, a lot of people just held out for it to come out.
Sega went kiddy with the grey and white design with happy button colors on the controller when fans always thought of it a a for grownups company, plus no dvd player when being disc based and the pedigree of the PS1.
Yup i know i did, had a big old stack of PS1 games at home which i could play on the PS2, looked at the previews of the PS2 games and was all kinds of happy at what i saw coming and on top of that it could play DVD's which was a real bonus at the time when DVD players weren't cheap.
Then of course there was the history of the poor showings with the Saturn and Sega CD with the real lack of a games library which firmly cemented for me that waiting on the PS2 was the smarter option and what i did and got on launch day.
I still got the Dreamcast later when the stores were practically giving the things and the games away.
Ouya would have won the console war.
God Television...
i want to game in my telivision why cant there be games in the telivision
God never
God its the only console
I fuckin loved the dreamcast, still play mine. Also love your videos falcon, well done
I had a friend that worked at Electronics Boutique, (which turned into EB games which got absorbed into Gamestop) and said the Dreamcast had a 1 in 3 failure rate. It had something to do with the laser disc dislodging itself and a temporary measure would be to power up the console and flip it upside down. Another problem was the VMU's. The memory cards were HIGHLY volatile and if the battery ran out or it received a good enough shock, like dropping it on the floor, could erase the data on it. The games were great, the hardware not so much.
I just recently joined a Dreamcast group on facebook and it's so amazing to see the love people have for this console. I just think Sega has made too many mistakes in the past which ultimately caused the console to fail.
King Bat nice I love sega
Loved the game skies of arcadia
The Saturn killed the Dreamcast. Then, when the PS2 hit it was game over.
No, the PS2 killed it 100%.
the 32X/Saturn conflict between SEGA USA and SEGA JP killed sega
i bought the ps2 when i was younger and it was on a whole new level. I loved the dream cast, but it was more of a arcade console, by the time the ps2 hit, the technology was so good already. Just look at GTA 3 and Vice City.
Nick, Sega US and Japan couldn't get it together. The Saturn was fantastic, and Sega US should have forgotten the 32x and all the bullshit add ons. Saturn was on par with PS1 and Dreamcast was on par with PS2. Dreamcast would have been better served here in America if Saturn was the predecessor of the Genesis.
Exactly!!! See my comment above... ;)
I still play my Dreamcast , sky's of Arcadia , shenmue , and Sonic ,. Nearly every day
The Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite consoles. I started collecting for it just a few years ago. It's a great system all together which basically brings the arcade games to your house. It does lack rpgs which is a bummer but for that I play my PS2 instead. I think Sega should bring out a system maybe not naming it the DC2 would be a better idea.
u should try fantasy star online for the dc
One word : Shenmue
Jaime Tafemme Shenmue killed the dreamcast?
Shenmue 3 has been announced and is coming...
Skies of Arcadia ! best game ever :) No Zelda breath of the wild is .. Since when ? now just stop waving that game too much around it may Break course of it's stupid awfull durability ! :D
Shit fuck, how did I forget Skies Of Arcadia
Jaime Tafemme powerstone 2
Hey go play Soul Calibur in an Arcade and tell me again it was just like the Dreamcast port. What was astounding for the Dreamcast port is that the graphics were leaps ahead of the arcade version, the arcade one looks like a PS1 game. Namco totally overhauled it and showed what the Dreamcast was capable of, when I got it on Dreamcast after playing it at the local mall arcade it was surprising how much better it looked. It's a shame they didn't support it much beyond that game. It also made Sega's own Virtua Fighter 3tb for the system look outdated graphically.
I’ve been meaning to pick one of these up. I was a Nintendo kid up until the ps2 released. Also, I always forget about the sega Saturn.
I call it, The Dreamcast 2 will be released in 2/2/22
Ha
Would be badass!
Too late.