How is your Dreamcast gaming going on?

[RCBH928]

Then, I guess the Dreamcast ended due to Sega's bad financial position not because of the bad sales of the console/games.

[bacardipr05]

Well...
If the Wii U is still getting games, then Sega should have kept the Dreamcast on the market. Couldn't they do like Neo-Geo where they release games on both their console and the competitor's? They basically shut a revenue stream of 10m units.

I wondered this myself. Even the Turbo Grafx hung around for a few years. With a much smaller install base. I wonder if Evil Sony made them sign some form of non-competitive agreement of sorts. Or perhaps with the pirating they thought it might not be worth it?

[marurun]

Then, I guess the Dreamcast ended due to Sega's bad financial position not because of the bad sales of the console/games.

Both, I would wager. Sales in the US were very good, but in Japan they were pretty poor. If Sega had not been in such a poor financial condition, they might have managed to weather a few poor financial quarters.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Then, I guess the Dreamcast ended due to Sega's bad financial position not because of the bad sales of the console/games.

It is a very fascinating story and it has been covered a lot on the internet. I highly recommend checking things out. There are tons of videos. Essentially, the ease to pirate for the system, the rise of DVD as a format and the numerous marketing and production issues that plagued the system worldwide led to its downfall, but you really can't pinpoint it to a single reason.

[marurun]

I lot of folks love to harp on the ease of pirating, but I really don't think that was significant. It was still kinda complicated, and the good self-booting releases didn't come out until Sega was already on the slide.

[noiseredux]

Everyone in this thread, go read Service Games The Rise And Fall Of Sega.

[marurun]

How do you know we haven't already? Hmmmmm?????????????

Actually, I haven't. I want to, though.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Everyone in this thread, go read Service Games The Rise And Fall Of Sega.

Thinking of grabbing this for my kindle. Is it picture heavy or no?

[noiseredux]

Everyone in this thread, go read Service Games The Rise And Fall Of Sega.

Thinking of grabbing this for my kindle. Is it picture heavy or no?

nah. Go for it.

[ExedExes]

Everyone in this thread, go read Service Games The Rise And Fall Of Sega.

Also Console Wars, even though that focuses more on the Genesis and Saturn, it's just a good look at Sega during the 90s.