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
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
@CruxisAngel954
7 жыл бұрын
The dreamcast was that rare example where the dreamcast didn't let the gamers down, the gamers let the dreamcast down
@dang8705
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Feastgiver
7 жыл бұрын
getting Piracy games was also very common with Dreamcast owners too which also affected the death of the Dreamcast. :(
@GODS3NT
7 жыл бұрын
Carlos Sanchez ~Absolutely right!!
@FuerzaAzteca1000
7 жыл бұрын
SweetDangos You are absolutely wright my friend. Many SEGA traitors turned back on the Dreamcast went buy the PS2 & Gamecube for a example.
@microsoftranchbottle
7 жыл бұрын
Josue Ortiz Right*
@baldpipesmoker1
4 жыл бұрын
I liked the Dreamcast. A very underrated system.
@rogerstephenroth8073
4 жыл бұрын
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
3 жыл бұрын
Roger Stephen Roth oh really? Didn’t know that like he didn’t say it in the fucking video smh
@rogerstephenroth8073
3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@AlienSneak
4 жыл бұрын
I still play with my Dreamcast in 2020.
@CallsignRedKale
4 жыл бұрын
So do I !
@familyfun2148
4 жыл бұрын
I just got 1 2day
@iforgor1077
4 жыл бұрын
Reicast!
@howardjohnson1688
4 жыл бұрын
I want one 😢😭
@daisymae3717
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@slightlyloyal1442
4 жыл бұрын
Playing Shenmue on the Dreamcast was so so good
@Zenguy89
3 жыл бұрын
Right and when it came out on Xbox one and ps4 I preordered it when it was announced.
@jasonparker346
2 жыл бұрын
Such an immersive game
@KeN_The_SaMuRaii
6 жыл бұрын
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!
@phillipmartinez2436
6 жыл бұрын
Yep same here, that and the original Xbox and KOTOR
@dynasty5053
6 жыл бұрын
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
@nostalgicstuff5552
6 жыл бұрын
In a few day I will buy one DC and four more games (I already bought two). The nostalgia will be awesome.
@loneskum
6 жыл бұрын
kentray Swagger same
@stavroschabuq7079
5 жыл бұрын
Amen bro..
@TampaTec
3 жыл бұрын
Dreamcast mini is rumored to release 2021 😁 nostalgia is tingling.
@swaroophegde5831
3 жыл бұрын
Really?
@reggiePLEASE
3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the knock-off systems that play NES games.
@noahmations1425
3 жыл бұрын
Wait really were did you get that info.. I need it!
@rupert281
3 жыл бұрын
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
@ajc3866
3 жыл бұрын
I’m so happy that I finally own a Dreamcast 😌
@redd_xiii
5 жыл бұрын
The Sega Dreamcast was sooo ahead of its time... Like Michael Jordan popping up on an NBA court in 1969.
@zombieoneofficial
4 жыл бұрын
Troof
@JessieJamesTan
4 жыл бұрын
true
@onenessseeker5683
4 жыл бұрын
except that control pad it went 10 years backwards
@hopperthemarxist8533
3 жыл бұрын
Incredibly stupid comparison and a deep insult to Michael Jordan. You and the 233 people who liked this have baby brains
@mutalix
3 жыл бұрын
Michael Jordan?...1969??
@mikee143
7 жыл бұрын
who makes these thumbnails?! because we need to talk
@ccleanandjerk
7 жыл бұрын
Mikey Geb are you a soccer mom that caught your son that clicked on this video
@lolindirlink
7 жыл бұрын
more like, a soccer mom created the thumbnail lol. (but it's not clickbaity, it's pretty much "dead" on)
@696Productions
7 жыл бұрын
Right? It's hurting my eyes
@Shorryu
7 жыл бұрын
i hate every thumbnail from gameranx. except the "before you buy"
@mikee143
7 жыл бұрын
Actually I like them, they're just ridiculous
@ContactingTheDead
7 жыл бұрын
*Dreamcast was way ahead of its time*
@daviddavodi
7 жыл бұрын
ContactingTheDead been saying that for years!!
@Boomken76
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@ReaLifeVideos420
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@tiagofernandes8389
7 жыл бұрын
ContactingTheDead stone age consumers maybe... uga uga ps2 uga uga dvd... stupid people.
@kannabi
7 жыл бұрын
it was, but it was designed at a time where speeds were just about to ramp up exponentially
@theodoremonroe6440
5 жыл бұрын
I was a PlayStation guy, who bought a Dreamcast! I was impressed by the graphics! Sega need another Dreamcast! And stop making 2k weak!
@tomjamraz5238
5 жыл бұрын
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
@Hijynx87
7 жыл бұрын
I miss my Dreamcast. Skies of Arcadia is one of the best JRPGs ever made.
@chrishutchinson7868
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrS22222
7 жыл бұрын
skies of acadia was an amazing game! loved the crap out of the ship battles!
@capcom23
7 жыл бұрын
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
@gfunkorigional06
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@Trident22
6 жыл бұрын
Alucard8319 Or get reicast on your a droid phone.
@liquidminds
7 жыл бұрын
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-go3ok
7 жыл бұрын
liquidminds cause NINTEN DONT MAKE MISTAKES LIKE SEGA SHITTY ASS ADVANCEMENTS LIKE WTF
@liquidminds
7 жыл бұрын
+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...
@Erick-go3ok
7 жыл бұрын
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
@TheKrossRoads
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Erick-go3ok
7 жыл бұрын
TheKrossRoads you sir deserve a standing ovation. 👌🔥
@Kingomegared
4 жыл бұрын
I'm the only person I know who owned a Dreamcast. I'll never forget
@GuitarGangsterArmi
4 жыл бұрын
Kingomegared I knew two people that had one.
@inthemaking9714
3 жыл бұрын
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
@Oddstories
3 жыл бұрын
I had two. Lol
@christhomas2729
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@davidreimer9637
4 жыл бұрын
Bernie Stolar
@davidreimer9637
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@mutalix
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@asdfpoop33921
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidreimer9637 DVD: 1997. Sega Dreamcast: 1998 (JP) 1999 (NA)
@vulcanraven9701
2 жыл бұрын
Chris Thomas: nah Stolar was not the reason the Saturn failed. The console was doing poorly before he join
farisand zerman lel no.. i got it from a present long ago
@alubaldini
7 жыл бұрын
rest , please many people buy sega dreamcast yet this console is great
@Skuntac
7 жыл бұрын
RIP? I play every week..
@kevinvu5432
7 жыл бұрын
Aymen legitimately it was the ugliest hardware I seen in a long time.
@kevinmcquade1688
5 жыл бұрын
Nothing will ever make sense out of the failure of the Dreamcast. It was amazing in every way.
@grahamtaylor8912
4 жыл бұрын
Unless you look at it objectively. Lack of DVD player, shitty library of games and the worst controller ever. Great machine otherwise..
@SRPC21
4 жыл бұрын
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!)
@Yautah
4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@SRPC21
4 жыл бұрын
Yautah I guess it was an acquired taste, I have quite big hands which is probably why I found it comfortable.
@SantiagoMonroy5
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
@chimptravel9331
5 жыл бұрын
You could burn discs. I got 40 new games in 1 day for $9.99 dvd-rw
@chromeleeches7429
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. Microsoft built a loophole into the operating system. Sega outsourced their OS to Microsoft. This is why they failed.
@NorthKoreaUncovered
4 жыл бұрын
Chimp Travel Dreamcast couldn’t read or write the DVD format in any sense.
@spike378
3 жыл бұрын
Lies, Dreamcast comes in GD-Rom basically CD-rom with two layers.
@rockstopsthetraffic
3 жыл бұрын
You think it was a setup, to then pillage Sega for Microsoft's own entry into the gaming?
@chimptravel9331
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@Itstgo
7 жыл бұрын
oh my god powerstone on the dreamcast was one of the best games!
@jameel2076
7 жыл бұрын
tgobasketball & project justice & spawn game as well!!
@liquidminds
7 жыл бұрын
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...
@jameel2076
7 жыл бұрын
liquidminds I Completely agree!
@dang8705
7 жыл бұрын
powerstone mdk1 and 2 pso(phansty star online) was hella good and hella fun
@Izanagioomikami
7 жыл бұрын
Why WAS ??? I'm still playing powerstone 2 on my dreamcast.
@me2monsta-150
7 жыл бұрын
everytime i hear the word dreamcast i get flashbacks the good ones tho
@ghostfacehd5333
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@oadefisayo
4 жыл бұрын
The Dresmcast was an amazing system. Spent hours playing Soul Calibur and Shenmue!
@djctrldesign
6 жыл бұрын
Still play my dreamcast
@flatbushmassachusetts8518
5 жыл бұрын
Smokeweed
@marlonbrans3567
5 жыл бұрын
@@flatbushmassachusetts8518 i am already
@JM-hx9ew
5 жыл бұрын
@@marlonbrans3567 puff, puff, pass 💭
@grahamtaylor8912
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@zombieoneofficial
4 жыл бұрын
Troof
@QLTD
6 жыл бұрын
I miss Sega
@mechanicalruby
6 жыл бұрын
It still here brah
@QLTD
6 жыл бұрын
I meant SEGA the hardware manufacturer
@orphancrippler2045
6 жыл бұрын
Before I watch this video who misses Soul Caliber and Grandia 2?
@dominblabla
5 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@simplyvani8285
5 жыл бұрын
@@QLTD Yep. I'm sad I never actually played the real SEGA.
@TheDeathOfLucifer
5 жыл бұрын
When I see my beloved Dreamcast and Sega Saturn 😿
@gentlegiant6585
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@TechnicalBarbarity
4 ай бұрын
Yea i think i still have my stack somewhere along with my EGM's and GamePro's heh
@SonicBoone56
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@fatbroccoli8
7 жыл бұрын
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
@charm2217
7 жыл бұрын
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
@strykah92
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@ronaldcopenhaver7091
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@vulcanraven9701
2 жыл бұрын
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.
@___Yang___
7 жыл бұрын
It's because it didn't have blast processing.
@MarineRX179
7 жыл бұрын
...and it's maker didn't have "lies broadcasting media channels" :P
@retrogamer33
7 жыл бұрын
It had "Super" Blast Processing
@fszron
7 жыл бұрын
On a serious note, how fast was the DC compared to the 128-bit competition?
@jbmaru
7 жыл бұрын
It's older so all in all a bit behind, but not that much!
@kannabi
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@tonybp
5 жыл бұрын
That was a great console, I still have it. IMHO it was ahead of its time.
@juliandavidson2409
4 жыл бұрын
“HOMIE I SAID I HAD A GAMECAST”
@jimmybabers1107
4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@DLDT
3 жыл бұрын
"I said I cant afford it" lol
@JaybeatszSuperProducer
3 жыл бұрын
Julian Davidson lol 😂 Malibu
@alexanderrobles8712
7 жыл бұрын
It was ahead of its time.
@katakisLives
6 жыл бұрын
Sometimes its better to wait until an idea or technology is ready for primetime rather than being first to market with it!
@gab_gallard
6 жыл бұрын
Innovator's dilemma exemplified.
@aldenmcgrath9722
5 жыл бұрын
ahead of its time and cant play dvd
@philyphil85
5 жыл бұрын
facts I I thought the VMU unit was so cool back then.
@MJForever1999
5 жыл бұрын
Dude it’s just basically updated n64 graphics... That 3D modeling existed in the 90s
@jon4tina
6 жыл бұрын
Powerstone 👌
@komujimaru
6 жыл бұрын
I WOULD BUY A DREAMCAST 2 IN A FLASH
@pr1m3vil3
5 жыл бұрын
...and its crafting system
@crashpal
5 жыл бұрын
soul calibur 1
@justin343wh
5 жыл бұрын
Shenmue
@tmmmedia731
5 жыл бұрын
The closest to going super saiyan in a game I ever had plus it just was the best freakin fighting game
@marinejcksn1
5 жыл бұрын
Skies of Arcadia was worth the price of a Dreamcast purchase imo
@SRPC21
4 жыл бұрын
Like all the great DC games though, it soon got ported to another system.
@wyterabitt2149
4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Treyworld
5 жыл бұрын
1:34 - FAKE! SFA3 never came to the N64!
@coburn9109
7 жыл бұрын
That Dreamcast intro just pulls me back to the good times in life :D
@EdwardSnortin
6 жыл бұрын
Soul Edge was technically the first Soul Calibre game FYI.
@JuanVicioGotti
6 жыл бұрын
ComradeCase soul blade
@KittyKatt_Luna80s
2 жыл бұрын
@@JuanVicioGotti No, it is Soul Edge. It was changed to Soul Blade for certain regions.
@mattdrake7197
Жыл бұрын
What a console. It was brilliant and better than anything else at the time. Great system to go out on SEGA
@edwardmiller4709
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@BlazingSlav
7 жыл бұрын
Sega Dreamcast Must Not Forget
@thequestion2367
6 жыл бұрын
Sega Dreamcast classic edition!!! Take my money!!
@matthewclark7952
6 жыл бұрын
God yes, ideally complete with Shenmue I & II.
@MGSBigBoss77
6 жыл бұрын
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!
@johnlmcgary
6 жыл бұрын
BzzZt just shut and take my money.
@QLTD
6 жыл бұрын
Classic edition from AtGames LOL
@thema1998
6 жыл бұрын
? ? Somebody should make the SEGA Dreamcast Classic Edition a thing.
@josetrejo5144
5 жыл бұрын
The ps2 MURDERED the dreamcast. Dreamcast is still awesome tho
@yazanaseeri3353
5 жыл бұрын
ps2 murdered my life when I was 5 years the creepy sound like startup and the red screen I am 12 y
@mflil
4 жыл бұрын
Heheh Good boy PS4 •pets PS4•
@EAchank
4 жыл бұрын
Cause of GTA3
@darkmastertaken
4 жыл бұрын
The dreamcast murdered itself
@EAchank
4 жыл бұрын
@@darkmastertaken gta3 wasnt on dreamcast
@DanzoKun
3 жыл бұрын
Jet Set/Grind Radio was a masterpiece, I wish the franchise didn't die out like it did.
@TeryonTheHuman
7 жыл бұрын
could you imagine the fatal 4 way console wars that would be going on today if this thing had succeeded?
@allendepacheco3419
7 жыл бұрын
Technically there is but the PC master race found themselves too powerful and civilize to be part of the console peasant war.
@lavafoxx
7 жыл бұрын
the pc isn't involved in the console wars, so you can just drop the nonsense.
@TeryonTheHuman
7 жыл бұрын
shoulda know this comment would attract pc cucks
@bridgettejasperreyes7567
7 жыл бұрын
Nep Nep would have happened... (^_^)
@Sharicite
7 жыл бұрын
Bridgette Jasper Reyes neptunia series would be sega console exclusives, so hell no i don't want that
@MMcGuire5
6 жыл бұрын
The dreamcast wasn't always going to fail. If Dreamcast had DVD capability, it wouldn't have failed.
@51royalcup
6 жыл бұрын
exactly
@Egganopolis82
6 жыл бұрын
Yup. You nailed it.
@Clay3613
6 жыл бұрын
DVD wouldn't save it against far more powerful hardware that was only a year away.
@phillipmartinez2436
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@JAR-HIPHOP
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah simply the ps2 had murdered the dreamcast
@p.t.archive3020
2 жыл бұрын
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
@SHINOBHS
5 жыл бұрын
1. No DVD 2. PS2 coming out 3. Bad reputation of Sega.
@vancityguy
4 жыл бұрын
Summed it up perfectly.
@shootermcgavin1208
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@DapperJeff
6 жыл бұрын
I miss the Dreamcast and I remember having one and I played it alot and I bought alot of games for it.
@MrLolo-xs6ob
7 жыл бұрын
3 things killed the dreamcast... 1- No DVD play capability 2- Poor marketing and sales campaign 3- Piracy
@Gayestskijumpever
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@supersmashmaster43
7 жыл бұрын
Simon Harris also it was expensive as hell.
@BurntRAM
7 жыл бұрын
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
@TRJ2241987
7 жыл бұрын
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
@BurntRAM
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@truepatriot3768
4 жыл бұрын
At that time me & my friends were crazy that PS2 will run movies like DVD players so no question of buying any other console
@fikrijuanda6321
4 жыл бұрын
Yup, people thought buying DVD that also can play Games was more efficient than buying separatedly
@Dreamstrangely
5 жыл бұрын
I still have alot of fond memories playing PSO (Phantasy Star Online) on the system :D
@sembatocus9958
7 жыл бұрын
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!!
@agonleed3841
6 жыл бұрын
Sembatocus shenmu and power stone are life lol
@johnaskins638
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@thema1998
6 жыл бұрын
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! 😂
@doootuz
7 жыл бұрын
I would love to see Dreamcast VC support on the Switch!
@claudettecameron875
7 жыл бұрын
Dootuz yes !!
@ayeeeitsalex2654
6 жыл бұрын
Dootuz is that even possible?
@ayeeeitsalex2654
6 жыл бұрын
Nightfall Wii was a Nintendo console though, the dreamcast isn't.
@seereebee
6 жыл бұрын
JiggylikeJello There were Genesis and Turbografx games on the Wii virtual console
@tooshort617
5 жыл бұрын
so we just gonna sit here and not mention alpha 3 never released on the n64 lol @1:34
@SDSOverfiend
4 жыл бұрын
Facts. That's when I took most of the shit this video was saying with a grain of salt.
@HenriqueLeal92
4 жыл бұрын
Sega was ahead of its time in many ways
@williamsmith666
5 жыл бұрын
"What killed the Dreamcast?" It was DOA right from the get-. Sega was already dying when they launched it.
@davetorres3906
7 жыл бұрын
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
@robinhood7874
6 жыл бұрын
*THEY WASTED SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY ON THOSE USELESS ADD-ONS. I WAS LIKE WTF IS THIS? AT THE TIME*
@thetabbyguy921
4 жыл бұрын
i blame the genesis addons and sonic extreme
@vulcanraven9701
2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@tootall8717
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@tenacity25
7 жыл бұрын
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.)
@mypikachuandthisisdeep8019
6 жыл бұрын
chuchu rocket online?
@auronsin69
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Valkirth
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@God-bo7ng
7 жыл бұрын
Ouya would have won the console war.
@ZeldasFinalFantasy
7 жыл бұрын
God Television...
@blank003
7 жыл бұрын
i want to game in my telivision why cant there be games in the telivision
@superhamz7
7 жыл бұрын
God never
@microsoftranchbottle
7 жыл бұрын
God its the only console
@Randomark3087
7 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Dreamcast games was Dynamite Cop
@shadow64dd
7 жыл бұрын
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)
@Randomark3087
7 жыл бұрын
I hadn't even heard of Sonic Shuffle 'til a few years ago, but Sonic Adventure was awesome.
@shadow64dd
7 жыл бұрын
What about Sonic Adventure 2?
@imgay5645
7 жыл бұрын
shadow killer 64 great game
@sirninjaraiden
7 жыл бұрын
Randomark3087 ME TOO!!!!!
@ikeyasector
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@720jlconner
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@thegroove14
7 жыл бұрын
It failed because Sega kept shoving out console after console.
@Jucelegario
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@thema1998
6 жыл бұрын
J.C. L. Don't forget about how Dreamcast games were frequently pirated.
@TheReZisTLust
6 жыл бұрын
Garrick Groover you didnt NEED to buy every console they sold...
@paulheap1982
5 жыл бұрын
ADP1998 and PlayStation games weren’t?
@EjinRenos
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@thatniggaghost83
7 жыл бұрын
Dreamcast is the console that turnt me into a gamer for life lol
@carolinemusitu3341
6 жыл бұрын
That Nigga Ghost same
@Ryushah
6 жыл бұрын
me too
@shadyundertow2037
6 жыл бұрын
anixecore i got the dreamcast for my bday and im glad i did it's great
@mamzersdream1
6 жыл бұрын
That Nigga Ghost *turned
@Lookattheworldaroundyou
6 жыл бұрын
same, shenmue and grandia II locked me into the die hard RPG fanboy
@spardathedevil7956
5 жыл бұрын
Still waiting for Dreamcast "2" or Dreamcast Portable.
@voteDC
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@spardathedevil7956
4 жыл бұрын
@@voteDC i know about emulators, but that's not what i want.
@irunasoft
4 жыл бұрын
Still, my friend. Still.
@divine1gore
5 жыл бұрын
You know you're too invested in tech when you tear up near the end of the video at 6:30
@darksidehazuki4327
7 жыл бұрын
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.
@nikol6310
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@demonicxxx
6 жыл бұрын
And FFIX is still one of my favorite's!!!
@tevis69
6 жыл бұрын
Not to mention FF8 came out the same day the Dreamcast released as well
@mcleodkeith16
5 жыл бұрын
I was 3 years old in 99 the dream cast was my very first game console. This took me back
@andsoooo
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@Saniss48
7 жыл бұрын
That magical Christmas when dreamcast ended, I was able to get dozens of games 10 bucks a piece. Amazing Christmas, bittersweet memory...
@JeanYvesQanonAngel
7 жыл бұрын
One word : Shenmue
@supersmashmaster43
7 жыл бұрын
Jaime Tafemme Shenmue killed the dreamcast?
@Kyranio
7 жыл бұрын
Shenmue 3 has been announced and is coming...
@cyberfennek
7 жыл бұрын
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
@JeanYvesQanonAngel
7 жыл бұрын
Shit fuck, how did I forget Skies Of Arcadia
@Nobunaga1983
7 жыл бұрын
Jaime Tafemme powerstone 2
@thorboysen3318
5 жыл бұрын
I remember when i got my Sega Mega Drive (genesis) and played Ghouls n Ghosts all day long...! Sweet memories!
@user-bc3gt4nv9w
4 жыл бұрын
Jim
@elvis1745
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheMixedPlateFrequency
5 жыл бұрын
Dreamcast had really good games. Just needed DVD capability, cause I think that was one of the things PS2 had.
@droiduseruserdroid1731
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@grahamtaylor8912
4 жыл бұрын
It never had the games that the PS2 had though. Plus it had a crap controller.
@grahamtaylor8912
4 жыл бұрын
@Erik dying light . Yup, plus then a good quality DVD player cost almost as much as a ps2 anyway.
@Jonnyd05
4 жыл бұрын
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
@comfy88338
4 жыл бұрын
PS2 also (In my Opinion) had a Far bigger and Better Library by the end of it's Lifetime.
@classicalgamer4429
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@deathstrike
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@christopherbolanos2480
5 жыл бұрын
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
@BonesBrigader
5 жыл бұрын
But the PS2 is the real sole reason let's be honest. Still remains Sony's highest selling console.of all time.
@theviniso
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@iwanttocomplain
5 жыл бұрын
Actually, DC sales increased when the copy protection was broken. Piracy never hurts companies. They just think it does.
@ShogunKilledChuck
4 жыл бұрын
Terrible string of consoles destroying Sega’s credibility, no DVD capabilities, too many ports of PS1/N64 games from third parties, and too much of a focus on instant gratification-based, frenetically paced arcade gaming.
@UneseatingKDawg
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@KevinMuldoon
6 жыл бұрын
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).
@InfernosReaper
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@KevinMuldoon
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@AlastairjCarruthers
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@KevinMuldoon
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@InfernosReaper
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@howtoshootstraighthtss4948
6 жыл бұрын
Dream cast had great graphics and great controller
@dynasty5053
6 жыл бұрын
Kris Feng 100% correct. Originally I thought the memory card was supposed to be like a mini Gameboy. Still a cool system.
@Daz555Daz
6 жыл бұрын
Controller only had one analogue stick which left it behind in 3d games.
@cartoonworld1000
5 жыл бұрын
@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.
@Superman-xr1oh
5 жыл бұрын
@@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate Weirdo...
@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate
5 жыл бұрын
@Britney Miller What the fuck's your problem?
@Charles020
5 жыл бұрын
I call it, The Dreamcast 2 will be released in 2/2/22
@yami564
5 жыл бұрын
Ha
@AimForTheBushes908
5 жыл бұрын
Would be badass!
@grahamtaylor8912
4 жыл бұрын
Too late.
@sphony
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@sitaroartworks
5 жыл бұрын
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
@whosaidthat84
3 жыл бұрын
That hurt sales for sure but there were still only 10 million units sold. If anything piracy could have driven up console sales.
@energeticyellow1637
2 жыл бұрын
@@whosaidthat84 If I recall, most consoles, including the Dreamcast, were sold at a loss. Companies rely on software sales to turn a profit.
@whosaidthat84
2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@burningflamesofdivinedragon
2 жыл бұрын
Piracy was a part of what killed the dreamcast but not all of it.
@badaccentgaming271
7 жыл бұрын
Who killed the SEGA Dreamcast? IT WAS ME DIO!!!
@justghoul
7 жыл бұрын
Dayton Austin MY GOD HOW DID YOU COME BACK AND GET TO THE REAL WORLD
@badaccentgaming271
7 жыл бұрын
Ghoul Corporation I USED THE HEARTBROKEN SOULS OF EVERYONE WHO DOESNT WIN THIS CHANNELS WEEKLY CONSOLE GIVE AWAYS AS FUEL!!! HAHAHAHA...im talking to you gameranx...😭😭😭
@justghoul
7 жыл бұрын
Dayton Austin NA-NANI!!!
@cadenwilkerson369
7 жыл бұрын
Dayton Austin DIOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
@justghoul
7 жыл бұрын
Caden Wilkerson Jonathan:DIOOOOO!!! SUNLIGHT OVERDRIVE!!! Joseph:DIOOOOO!!! HERMIT PURPLE!!! Jotaro:DIOOOOOO!!! ORA ORA ORAAAAA!!!
@Automatonable
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@SumDumGai5
6 жыл бұрын
Automatonable Yep. Everyone's trust was lost.
@user-uz3fk8zq3u
6 жыл бұрын
Automatonable the CD was a good add on, they just didn’t have a lot of games on it and too many immersive stuff
@demolitiongod64
6 жыл бұрын
+GamingTV ps2 killed the Dreamcast
@demolitiongod64
6 жыл бұрын
+GamingTV Yes it did. That and the fact that fans lost their trust it sega
@demolitiongod64
6 жыл бұрын
+GamingTV meh it seems you know more about this than I do
@killersmurf9057
5 жыл бұрын
I fuckin loved the dreamcast, still play mine. Also love your videos falcon, well done
@boigercat
4 жыл бұрын
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
@MaxAbramson3
Жыл бұрын
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.
@MGSBigBoss77
6 жыл бұрын
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!
@majesticlizard
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@MGSBigBoss77
6 жыл бұрын
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!
@Adam-rt7lp
6 жыл бұрын
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
@picketf
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@MGSBigBoss77
6 жыл бұрын
*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).
@charlescoryell4239
7 жыл бұрын
The dreamcast died because it dared to dream....cast I'll leave
@user-vi4xy1jw7e
7 жыл бұрын
Please do
@albertfrancissimons7907
7 жыл бұрын
Charles Coryell like Icarus you and Dreamcast flew to close to th- oh I gotta leave too ?
@ultrainstinctgrey9184
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@kojakbraddy2338
4 жыл бұрын
I still play my Dreamcast , sky's of Arcadia , shenmue , and Sonic ,. Nearly every day
@KingBat
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@supergenius5267
6 жыл бұрын
King Bat nice I love sega
@jalalmarcus
5 жыл бұрын
Loved the game skies of arcadia
@kingdavey90
7 жыл бұрын
What's up gamers, Dreamcast Guy here.
@kristoffercedric4565
5 жыл бұрын
Going home and playing Quake 3 Arena with my dad on the Dreamcast is one of the greatest memories of my childhood.
@MarvinMr305
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@bachconneshon7809
4 жыл бұрын
u should try fantasy star online for the dc
@Nickbaldeagle02
6 жыл бұрын
The Saturn killed the Dreamcast. Then, when the PS2 hit it was game over.
@Victinion7060
5 жыл бұрын
No, the PS2 killed it 100%.
@leonardomadruga1011
5 жыл бұрын
the 32X/Saturn conflict between SEGA USA and SEGA JP killed sega
@simpleways2506
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@Duke_Togo_G13
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@militaryltd
5 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!! See my comment above... ;)
@JoeCannon1982
6 жыл бұрын
We Kinda need a DreamCast 2 please
@bv3124
6 жыл бұрын
I still have mines!
@SumDumGai5
6 жыл бұрын
Cory Tyler Mine.
@bv3124
6 жыл бұрын
SixPack Shakur lmao you’re right
@muysli.y1855
6 жыл бұрын
Xbox *hust* *hust*
@thenecktye2843
6 жыл бұрын
I wish
@kcapt96
4 жыл бұрын
Man! Powerstone was also one of my favorites! It was so so much fun xD
@Valkirth
4 жыл бұрын
same!,also ready to rumble boxing,space channel 5,MSR,sega bass fishing,crazy taxi and pso ep 1+2 which i clocked 52,000 hours on over 6-7 years,and my all time favorite game on the DC shenmue
@sllnnoo
5 жыл бұрын
Very detailed and perfect analysis. A good video. Being a childhood fan of sega i wish this company to come back in console business.
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