Apologize

Apologize.

The yakuza actually killed him, but st least theu made him look homorable

Why did Dreamcast fail anyways? The games look really good and the price point seemed reasonable.

People already knew PS2 is coming. PS1 was a huge success. Sega had a bad reputation for console releases.

This is an example why launch sales is not a good indication of console survival. Sustaining those launch sales is.

the dreamcast really didn't fail but it wasn't going to be the long term success Sega needed
SoJ really fucked the company over when SoA/SoE were continuing to make huge strides with what they had

Sega's financial fuck-ups since the 32X had royally screwed them over. It wasn't enough for Dreamcast to do well, it has to do great. Even then, Sega was basically doomed, more than likely.

Then they developed Sonic Adventures 1&2, Sonic 06, you get the catch.
Way to go, shithead.

>Saving SEGA from bankrupcy
>They now have to prostitute Sonic to Nintendo of all the people to keep their company afloat
Nice

SEGA has been doing well though

you could literally just burn the games to discs. There was a demo exploit, pirating games was super easy.

Majority of revenue they get today are from non-gaming divisions.

PS2 was just as easy to pirate via modchip and GC had basically no piracy until late on its lifecycle.
But still, PS2 destroyed both of them

that still doesnt change the fact that they are doing well

ynderage retard. piracy was an epidemic on dreamcast

Since the inception of Sega's home console division, they had a bad habit of releasing hardware addons and revisions that were poorly supported. Such as the numerous Master System revisions, the Sega CD and it's atrocious FMV games, and the ill-fated 32x.

The next nail in the coffin was the lack of support for the Sega Saturn in the states. JRPG's were big at the time but none of the Saturn versions were ported over. The library outside japan was relatively barren. So while the Saturn had runaway success in Japan, mostly due to the Segata Sanshiro advertising campaign, they lost consumer faith everywhere else.

By the time the Dreamcast rolled around, it was Sega's last chance to really make a comeback. However, despite making a really good system with great first party and 3rd party support, many retailers refused to stock the Dreamcast, unaware if it was a new system or one of the many stocked addons that never sold. This was on top of how easy it was to pirate games with early Dreamcast models.

So, the Dreamcast itself didn't damn Sega, their own bad decisions did. The release of the ps2 didn't help matters for that system.

Mother fucker I remember just burning a bunch of SNES roms with a executable file to open them straight onto a disk and popping it right in there. Took 20 minutes and I could play every SNES game ever made on my Dreamcast. Didn't need a fucking chip and it was great.

I..I'm Sorry

No it wasn't, at least not when the Dreamcast was stil around, you could burn a special disc, then burn the games, place the special disc then swap it.

It was that easy, no physical modifications, you could even buy that special disc for a very cheap price if you didn't know how to do it.

I'm pretty sure the clerk at my local game store/arcade was sell more pirated Dreamcast games than the store was selling legit games.

PS2 was not as easy to pirate on as the Dreamcast was at launch. The Playstation was always pretty easy, but that's why it won that generation. The Dreamcast came after and it absolutely would have been the winner of the 6th gen if it had more games. The problem is even though it was easy to pirate for (which makes the system globally profitable since you have to buy the hardware) there weren't really any games. It had an amazing launch but after that there was hardly anything.

honorable indeed.

Is this joke post? There were a lot of games coming to the DC until 2002. In fact one of the console merits is build such consistent library in a short time period.

I can easily name 50 good games for it.

Followed the bad game industry habit of making a overpriced console and another bad habit of giving a shitty gimmick to it. Besides, Sega didn't had backup plans if the console didn't sell good

They wasted all their money developing Shenmue.