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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark W**a" data-source="post: 65822" data-attributes="member: 1196">Awesome to see all the responses!I've read everything.Yes I was there Dreamcast, my favorite launch ever.  But that was a different case... we had a full year of software developement (the system really launched in Japan on November 1998).  So that meant we had Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, House of the Dead 2, Sega Rally, and a bunch of other great software at launch.  I never had so many goosebumps as I did with Dreamcast.  That system was just absolutely mind-blowing.  And inviting mates over to show it off, I converted 5 of my friends over to Dreamcast all of whom were PlayStation/N64 gamers who did not own Saturn.  360 launch did not give me those chills in fact, I was there lambasting the console at launch, believe it or not.  I was firmly of the mindset that, the console was too soon.  Xbox 1 was only 4 years old at that point, and when I saw software like Kameo I said "nice textures, but 30 frames per second?  Bleh"  Call of Duty 2 I said "looks not much better than current gen".  I was in the "this is Xbox 1.5 lol" camp, the only thing I liked about the 360 at launch was the controller, which I said was the most comfortable I have ever held.  But fast forward throughout that year, I played stuff like Lost Planet, Fight Night Round 2, ChromeHounds, and Dead Rising, I was absolutely sold on the machine.  But I was still expecting PS3 to blow it out of the water.  Then we discovered that the demo's were all CG, the actual games that were multiplatform looked and ran worse on PS3.. I still camped out for my PS3, but I gave into the Ebay frenzy and ended up selling mine for a cool 2 grand.  Long story short the false Ebay market fell out so quickly due to not enough demand, the guy who won my auction actually threatened to not pay me because 2 days after he won the auction PS3's were going for 900... Anyways I did get paid, and I used that money to buy a 360, Dead Rising, ChromeHounds, Gears of War collectors edition, an extra controller, a wireless headset, a year of Xbox Live, and a points card with money to spare lol.  That was an epic Christmas, and my best buddy did the same, probably up their with Dreamcast as far as gaming memories.  But again, the 360 was a full year old.  If I had kept the PS3 my memories would have been horrible!  The online was piss poor at launch, and the software was lacking.  Same had you gotten a 360 in 2005 with Kameo and Call of Duty 2.  Bleh.  Now these games aren't horrible, but contrast that with the stuff you get a year later.  That's the point here; 360 in 2006 and Dreamcast in 1999 were amazing but only because they were both a year old by this time.</blockquote>

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