Basically they had a strong start but afterwards everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Luck really wasn't on their side either due to a lot of circumstance like the ps2 coming + dvd, and the ps1 still getting mad big releases. The dreamcast had skies of arcadia while the ps1 had FF9, it tells you pretty much everything.
Even though they had a big support from companies like capcom, fighting games were at their lowest period in terms of popularity, they also were still lacking in rpgs wchich was THE genre back then.
So in the ened yeah, everything taht could've been a threat was a threat and everything that could go wrongh, went wrong
Why did the Dreamcast fail?
Kevin Allen
Noah King
it entertained me and brought me enjoyment so it didnt fail
Dominic Thompson
Sega was burning through way too much money. Shenmue had a ridiculous at the time budget of something like 60 million dollars I think. They needed to sell something weird like 2 Shenmue copies for every Dreamcast they produced just to even break even on Shenmue which obviously wasn't going to happen. Then you add this on top of the massive failure that was the Saturn and its easy to see why it failed on these two things alone. It actually was pretty well liked for its short run and everyone I know bought one. It just was Sega being Sega though in their last breath before the cord to their life support got pulled from them. Dreamcast needed beyond a miracle just to save itself and Sega. It wasn't going to be happening.
Still got my Dreamcast with a few games left. Haven't played it in forever. Damn shame knowing only years later why Sega stopped making consoles. They were a fucking mess of a developer and got nobody to blame but themselves.
Tyler Young
It was too ahead of its time
It's literally pleb filter: the console
Landon Gomez
PS2s stronger marketing campaign + DVD player, Nintendos back to back 10/10s, and lack of third party support.
Eli Gonzalez
Dreamcast sold like crazy during its short-run. It didn’t matter in the end because Sega was already burning down since the Saturn crashed and burned and both corporate branches were killing eachother out of jelousy since the Genesis. Faggots will claim that it was the PS2, its DVD drive or piracy, but all of those only served to seal the deal.
Sebastian Johnson
>Neptune
>Dreamcast
Jack Rivera
>Nintendos back to back 10/10s
this has absolutely nothing to do with the dreamcast failing, nintendo weren't really doing that great either at that time
Colton Rivera
The writing was already on the wall for Sega. It's less that the Dreamcast failed and more that it was a hail mary that didn't pan out.
Juan Reed
Arcades still alive. Sega just released Daytona 3 and House of the Dead Scarlett Dawn last year. Namco got Maximum Tune 6 coming up and it's got an English translation already.
I played Shenmue for the first time a couple years ago. Gotta say I dont see the budget.