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<blockquote data-quote="Tabe" data-source="post: 66330" data-attributes="member: 342"><p>Funny, with all this Dreamcast love, I'm a bit of a dissenting voice.</p><p></p><p>My wife bought me a DC for our anniversary the January after the DC's launch. I went over to the local Hasting's to rent some games and they had basically nothing I was interested in. A couple dozen games but nothing I found compelling. I ended up renting Hydro Thunder and Powerstone. Was underwhelmed by Powerstone. No big surprise since I was playing it single player and it's really a multiplayer title. Hydro Thunder, I never got to play. Remember the major issue that Midway had with their games early in the DC's release? Yeah, it wouldn't work on my DC. Had some fun with the NFL 2K game that came with my DC bundle but quickly realized it was a steaming pile of junk when I saw they had made the Minnesota Vikings better than the frigging all-star team. Gimme a break. </p><p></p><p>I ended up returning that Dreamcast (thank you, Costco!) and never bought another. Years later, I borrowed a DC from a friend and played it and loved it. Soul Calibur, various emulators, Bass Fishing, and so on. Lots of great titles.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I believe the DC was killed by the gaming media and game stores rather than any actual failure by Sega. The system was the biggest launch in console history in North America. It did HUGE numbers out of the gate. There were quality titles available for it. And yet what were the gaming media saying? "It's Sega, it'll fail". "Wait til the PS2 comes out in a year". And so on. I went into a Gamestop/EB and they were actually telling people to NOT buy the Dreamcast, to wait for the PS2. This was holiday season 1999! I asked about that and was told that was actually corporate policy. WTF. Who tells people to NOT buy the best game system on the market? I think there were a lot of people in the industry still mad about the Saturn and were determined to MAKE the Dreamcast fail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tabe, post: 66330, member: 342"] Funny, with all this Dreamcast love, I'm a bit of a dissenting voice. My wife bought me a DC for our anniversary the January after the DC's launch. I went over to the local Hasting's to rent some games and they had basically nothing I was interested in. A couple dozen games but nothing I found compelling. I ended up renting Hydro Thunder and Powerstone. Was underwhelmed by Powerstone. No big surprise since I was playing it single player and it's really a multiplayer title. Hydro Thunder, I never got to play. Remember the major issue that Midway had with their games early in the DC's release? Yeah, it wouldn't work on my DC. Had some fun with the NFL 2K game that came with my DC bundle but quickly realized it was a steaming pile of junk when I saw they had made the Minnesota Vikings better than the frigging all-star team. Gimme a break. I ended up returning that Dreamcast (thank you, Costco!) and never bought another. Years later, I borrowed a DC from a friend and played it and loved it. Soul Calibur, various emulators, Bass Fishing, and so on. Lots of great titles. Personally, I believe the DC was killed by the gaming media and game stores rather than any actual failure by Sega. The system was the biggest launch in console history in North America. It did HUGE numbers out of the gate. There were quality titles available for it. And yet what were the gaming media saying? "It's Sega, it'll fail". "Wait til the PS2 comes out in a year". And so on. I went into a Gamestop/EB and they were actually telling people to NOT buy the Dreamcast, to wait for the PS2. This was holiday season 1999! I asked about that and was told that was actually corporate policy. WTF. Who tells people to NOT buy the best game system on the market? I think there were a lot of people in the industry still mad about the Saturn and were determined to MAKE the Dreamcast fail. [/QUOTE]
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