Dreamcast was awesome. I think maybe piracy killed that thing. Everybody I knew had the boot disc to play burned games or were selling burned Dreamcast games themselves lol.
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@grizzlywhisker @SuperDicq @Gran3Walder I don't think piracy was the problem with the hardware not selling. I knew literally nobody with a dreamcast. Everyone had either Playstation or Nintendo. My first sonic games were on GameCube and I didn't know sega ever had their own consoles until I was a teenager, at least. The Ps2, Wii, and Switch were all rampant with piracy and look at the sales figures for those.
Sega Genesis was super popular when I was growing up. The Japs didn't really support Sega Saturn in America when that came out. My cousin got one and we could never find games for it so he eventually sold it and got a PS1. Then I found out years later the vast majority of Saturn games were Japan only. I think it sold poorly in America at first so they just gave up on it here. Dreamcast came out at a weird time between the N64/PS1 and GameCube/PS2 generations which may have had something to do with it not selling well. In my town a bunch of people had them.
@grizzlywhisker @beardalaxy @SuperDicq @Gran3Walder i heard that sega management kept saturn games from the west or so the story went.
@beardalaxy @grizzlywhisker @SuperDicq @Gran3Walder piracy happened at the tail end and the later rom revision patched out mil-cds but the console sold so badly that only few consoles have it
@beardalaxy @grizzlywhisker @SuperDicq @Gran3Walder I think I probably touched a Dreamcast at a K-Mart when I was three years old. It had to be mid-2001 and the system was discontinued but people were still officially making games for it.
