re: Why was the Dreamcast not successful?

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Other consoles had dozens of all time classics and hundreds of good games.

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Yet you don't give a single example.....

I mean, N64 had plenty of problems that gets glossed over because nostalgia and some epic games for its time.

While I only had a N64, it's easy to see why it got dominated.

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The Famicom had a modem. That's the NES in Japan. Nintendo always wins

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I forgot about that one. It's functionality included taxes, a stock ticker, weather report, and horse racing info... all the things essential to the internet.

It is really stupid easy to bur games for the dreamcast.

I have cases full of games.

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A lot of folks who grew up with Genesis instead of Nintendo are still bitter. So Dreamcast is romanticized. Yes, Sega made a lot of blunders and eventually fell by the wayside, but before they did they gave us one last amazing console. What a final bow. It's beautiful *tear*

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ok so your a Sega fanboy that never got into Nintendo, noted. The question was why the Dreamcast failed to be successful and I answered the question. The Dreamcast was a good console but to stay successful you have to sell consoles and games and Dreamcast didn't.

As for the 64 being a turd in your eyes, it had arguably the top 2 games of all time on it as exclusives. That alone makes it pretty awesome. The 64's downside was the same problem the DC had in it's media format but like I said before, Nintendo can get away with its exclusive library.

I loved my N64 when I had it but good god has that system aged poorly. It's just in that area between retro games and modern 3D games where it just looks like absolute shite now. PS1 is similar. But you're doing some serious revisionist history if you think there weren't great games on the 64

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I loved my N64 when I had it but good god has that system aged poorly. It's just in that area between retro games and modern 3D games where it just looks like absolute shite now. PS1 is similar. But you're doing some serious revisionist history if you think there weren't great games on the 64

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all consoles age really poorly, they just hold a nostalgia factor for most that grew up with them. PS1 games look like garbage now compared to the new stuff, hell, even the PS2 looks like garbage for the most part and we thought it was the tits when it released.

The big problem that games had in general was storage capacities. My laptop hard drive in college was 2 gb and I upgraded it to 5 gb when I was balling. Now I have movies that are 2gb on my 3 tb of media hard drives on my desktop. Storage capacities allowed game producers to build bigger games with more information.

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hell, even the PS2 looks like garbage for the most part

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I disagree here. PS2 games hold up pretty well in my eyes, at least from a visuals perspective. Mechanics are another story

That's how I feel. The biggest issue is that standard definition looks bad on HD screens. The HD remakes of them look fine though. Mechanics are a different issue, they can be hit or miss.

Games were the problem