What went wrong?
What went wrong?
Oliver Fisher
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Joshua Mitchell
>release a console no one ever knew about
the end.
Hunter Lee
SEGA IS BACK BAYBEE
Evan Nelson
The Nips thinking they can do business better than the Americans and that they thought they knew what was best for SEGA in general instead of the people who were actually doing the work.
Mason Thompson
This is like looking at Nintendo's next 10 years
Logan Hughes
The dreamcast was released at an awkward point in time.
It was basically a 5th gen system released just before the 6th gen was ready to roll out, and anyone who says it's a 6th gen system is ignorant. It was still using custom proprietary CDs for media.
Still a great system with some groundbreaking titles.
Aiden Gonzalez
So I guess the GameCube is 5th gen to huh
Angel Wilson
Storage format doesn't define generations. Hardware capability does, and the Dreamcast was competitive with the PS2 and pretty nice for a system with 2 years lead time over the competition.
Evan Reyes
>2004
your data is missing more years to reach today than it has there
Jordan Carter
>Got annihilated in direct competition by Sony in the 5th gen and even lose to Nintendo. >Release a console to directly compete with Sony.
>Sells like garbage because everyone is waiting for the PS2
>Slash the price down to $50 one year in to drive sales on the idea software sales would offset the losses and push a huge $100 million "comeback marketing campaign" that was nonsensical.
>System incredibly easy to pirate so they lose money on every system sold and software sales are shit.
>Make the most expensive game ever at the time (Shenmue) on a system where their mascot struggled to sell 2 million games.
>Run out of money
They were acting like they were a big player who could recklessly and directly compete with a tech giant like Sony at its height of popularity. The DC was just a money sink and everything they did to rectify it was just throwing more money at it.
To give a modern comparison Nintendo basically did the opposite with the WiiU and they were profitable with a system that sold about 1.3x better than the Dreamcast. Nintendo weren't on a desperate campaign to get people to buy the WiiU.