despite beingmore powerful etc(add in ramcarts etc)it was difficult to program for .thats one reason where it kinda failed

but back then , it was the only comsole where u could go online and literally download a completed save file of a game if u are too lazy to finish it on your own ....

can download save file meh? so good?

Err...u compare DC with Playstation?? That's like comparing XBOX360 with PS2.

Being next gen console, of course it was more powerful than the previous gen!!!

The DC was brought out 2 years too early as the saturn die early and they have to bring in a replacement. Unfortunately, in their haste to make fast cash, they haven't do their proper job by getting enuff 3rd party to commit to their platform. EA was just one of them. And please dun blame EA anymore. I dun think their games is that critical to the survival of a console platform (but maybe in US, crappy boring yearly re-hash of football nd basketball sells like hotcakes).

And when the PS2 comes out a year later, all was lost for the DC. Simply becoz there isn't enuff 3rd party support. And dun blame the competition for their own incompetence.

Also, their 1st party games also heck boring. Even their in-house developers couldn't bring the best out of the machine and it was actually Namco who made probably the best looking DC game in Soul Calibur, way ahead of VF3 ( a mediocre conversion at best). Seriously, Soul Calibur looks so good that even the SC2 on the XBOX doesn't looks much better than it. It was way ahead of it's time.

Yu Suzuki's Shenmue was an expensive joke and Sonic is just too old(and fugly) to save the DC.

SEGA did themselves in and nobody to blame for.

DC lose to PS2 coz they didn't have the dvd support when it came out (they stated it so during an interview in G4 once). PS2 is the cheapest DVD Player on the market when it came out. I bet it can still have it saving grace if it had that feature.

the port of virtual fighter from arcade to dreamcast was not done by sega but by genki.

Yeah. I remember now. They are not even committed enuff to have AM2 do the conversion, instead hands it down to some 3rd rate developer. How do u expect 3rd party to get committed??

Anyway, SC blows everything away, even the original Model 3 VF3 arcade version.

More excuses. they could simply said they've no foresight and sucks at marketing.

dreamcast+ modem = good for lazy kaki

As long as Nintendo has Pokemon, Sony has Metal Gear and Microsoft has Halo, Sega can forget coming back in the handheld, console, PCs, and even the arcades.

A GameGear owner myself once, it was fun back in those days playing the first Sonic on GG.

That reminds me.

Even their mascot Sonic got ported to other consoles!
How zomg can you get?

my dreamcast is still alive and kicking though. Quite alot of fun games available. Sad it may be for it to die off so early, and stupid it was for Sega not to market it properly, there is no denying it was a capable console.

Shenmue, Sonic in 3D (running away from a killer whale), Phantasy Star Online, Metropolis Street Racer (with the real scenery of London, San Fran and Shibuya)... these are gaming moments you should never miss...

MSR...i m still playin this gem..