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"Why the Dreamcast failed...."

I have no idea but anyway after having my Dreamcast for about 3 Months I have decided to sell it. Not really my cup of tea the games aren't intresting enough, sure there's some quality games but there aren't enough to warrant me keeping it.

Shenmue was amazing, Jet Set Radio was great while it lasted, Crazy Taxi was ummm short, Sonic Adventure was fun for 5 minutes and the rest where unspeakably boring.

Anyway, anyone want a Dreamcast for £80 with 19 games and a hell of a lot of other stuff?

I think the pair of you are loonies. How can you say the likes of MSR is 'unspeakably boring'? Do you even like videogames?

I'm still buying games for my Dreamcast. Skies of Arcadia arrived from an ebay purchase today, next on the shopping list is Headhunter. My GameCube game collection will do well to ever get within striking distance of my DC collection, which probably surpasses my N64 and SNES collections. It may well be the best console I ever own, and the best you ever get rid of :O/

Star Fury, you wouldnt fancy splitting it down to :-

VMU Unit, Controller
Shenmue
Skies of Arcadia
Virtua Tennis

would you?

remeber the weird adverts

But all of the true DC greats are like gold dust now. You just would never get anything like Samba de Amigo or Seaman on a non-Sega console.

Same here. Convinced that Ihad missed some great games I went out a couple of months back and got one, bought a pile of games including Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, MSR, Skies Of Arcadia e.t.c

It's nothing special, I barely play it so it's up for sale one Ebay right now...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=4313&item=3017611067

Ahm those were the days...

Do u still have that dc for sale ?

Nomad_Soul wrote:
> Yeah I went a bit over-the-top, but I was angered by Tiltawhirl saying
> that most Dreamcast games are "unspeakably boring".

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Yes, that sort of rubbish does smell eerily of anus, doesn't it?

The Dreamcast's games are the best I've ever played, seeing as they're among some of the most original, innovative and damn playable games ever devised.

Yeah I went a bit over-the-top, but I was angered by Tiltawhirl saying that most Dreamcast games are "unspeakably boring".

Nomad_Soul wrote:

> But the Dreamcast's life was cut short before it fully matured.
> If more people had bought the "1st" next-gen console in it's
> first year, Dreamcasters would NOW be looking forward to Jet Set Radio
> Future, Shenmue 3, Virtua Fighter 4, Crazy Taxi 3, and many many more
> on the DC.
>
> The reason the Dreamcast failed is because people like you didn't buy
> one until it was dirt cheap.
> Why didn't you buy one earlier?
> Let me guess: You were ar$ing about on a PSone.
>
> The DC didn't fail because of "boring" games, it failed
> because people like you only bought one when you realized you could
> take advantage.


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Well, that's not completely true now is it? Now, as much as I love SEGA to pieces and as much as I love playing on my Dreamcast...you can't blame the Dreamcast's unfortunate demise JUST on the people who waited for the price to drop until buying one. SEGA's advertising strategy for the Dreamcast wasn't exactly fool proof, now was it? Throwing millions of yen around to sponsor Arsenal FC, and broadcasting TV ads with nothing but the swirly logo and the word "Dreamcast" without any mention of SEGA themselves, what the Dreamcast actually was or actual footage of games was never going to be voted as the best marketing campaign in history...

Obviously the technique adopted by most people in buying the Dreamcast didn't help the console in any way, but it's not really fair to blame those people entirely...when it's clear that SEGA's inept skills at marketing where just as much to blame.

And that has nothing to do with the fact that I waited until September 2001 to buy a Dreamcast...honest.