According to this article on MSN.com, the Sega Dreamcast is one of the 25 biggest tech flops in the past decade.
I guess economically, the Sega Dreamcast was a flop. There were thousands of consoles still unsold in the Sega warehouses when they canceled the Dreamcast. But technical wise, I thought the Dreamcast was a solid system. It had a lot of great games on it and I hear it is still pretty popular over in Japan.
I still have my Dreamcast. Do you?
I find it hard to say the Dreamcast was a "tech flop". Technically it's very solid. In fact, after watching your Gaming Historian episode about it, I went to eBay and bought one with five games for 30 bucks. In the article itself they say that they loved it. I guess they mean financially it was a flop, but doesn't flop imply that the system itself was bad? The reason it failed was the competition, not the console design or games.
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortuneate that the Dreamcast was not succesfull. It was the first console that I was very much "in to". I was heavy into importing Dreamcast games and then rebuying their American Counterparts when they were released with extra content (Jet Set Radio comes to mind here).
ReplyDeleteThe Dreamcast was the only system that I have owned in which I felt the majority of their games was fun and playable. And they had excellent support from Capcom, which pretty much kept the AAA content coming throughout the short life of the system