RetroGaming

19617 readers

347 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

Be kind.
No spam or soliciting for money.
No racism or other bigotry allowed.
Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Xylinna@lemmy.world

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

gts@lemmy.world

608

Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

106 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Umm I'm sorry to break this to you buddy but I pirated every dreamcast game I owned short of sonic adventure and Phantsy star online. That's probably why the dreamcast failed.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

They lost money on the hardware and didn't make it back on software, so you're likely right.

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah my friend got a Dreamcast and then I pirated all the games for him. It was one of the most awesome consoles ever with amazing games. But the few other people I knew with one at the time also pirated games. It was just so easy because it didn't even need a modchip or anything. Just download, burn a CD, and play.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

A vast majority of the public didn't do this or know how to do this.

It failed because the PS2 was dominating at the time, and Sega didn't know how to launch a console, even if they had a gun pointed at their head.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I was in college at the time and there were a few of us with Dreamcasts. I bought my games (and still have them), but there were guys with literally every single game in the library burned to disc.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

That was me. After it failed I felt like such an asshole 😔