Dreamcast?

DC agayn?





Do YOU own a dreamcast?!

Wow, asking ALL the people who still own a Dreamcast to register online?

I hope they have the server capacity to cope with seven people.

lol hmm I still have one back home. Going back this weekend, I'll sign up to this

One day the Dreamcast will be worth loads.

Dreamcast was a superior system to PS and N64

I still got several dreamcast systems maybe I should register each one

They different formatted due to being UK? Or are they imports?

1 ntsc jappanese
3 pal english
1 pal english modified for multi region

and a couple more untested/broken

You consider selling one?

every so often I do sell a lot of the shit I aquire
the only ones I would consider selling at the mo are the uk pal spec machines (240v pal tv signal) but unfortunatley they wont run properly over there, your best bet is to check ebay for one, or a forum like www.digitpress.com as some of the members there sell american spec ones from time to time

You best be gassin' nigger.

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I liked the idea of buying the mod'd one but I can just pick one up from a local game store here.



I thought Jet Grind Radio was pretty innovative, Crazy Taxi was fucking awesome too.

Shenmu was supposed to be ill.

It was, fucking amazing for its time

The idea of incorporated digital pets and high scores into the memory card is an amazing idea for us nerds who want to prove our high scores.

So many ideas that just make the fact sega didn't promote it properly a proper shame, as I assume brits would say.

Don't get me wrong, it had its titles; but in no way was it superior to PlayStation or even N64.

That's like saying the PSP can compete with the Nintendo DS.

PSPs are so fucking shit, the only people who buy them are proper scumbag pikeys.

hahahah! that hurt somebody...fucking pikeys!

Don't get me wrong.

You can eat it, everyone knows that the Dream Cast was superior in graphics and even capabilities but there PR was shitty and didn't get it into enough house holds. It lost the console war because of this, the N64 was using fuck cartridges for shit sake. Eat it.



If they released more quality games I'd have one. I did have one after the ABV meet up, but no good games.

GOd of War just came out, the GTA's are supposed to be ill too.

DS isn't that great though. PSP is shitty mostly cause of dead pixels.

Nintendo and Sony had (and have) more resources than Sega did/does. I hated the N64 controller, so I naturally preferred the Dreamcast. Just sucked that Sega got F'd in the A to the point that they couldn't compete.

If you're talking in terms of technology, then yes, the Dreamcast was "superior". It had more hardware dedicated to sound and graphics processing than the PlayStation had in its whole system.

But you cannot look at the three consoles and say that DC was better than it's competitors. I doubt you can even blame it on advertising and all, since Sega were an established name with arcade games and handhelds AND home consoles and Sony was basically new in the video games market, yet right from the start they fucking dominated.

DC had a few good games but not enough. It had one game worth playing online, which was its big advantage over PS and N64 and it never capitalised on it. DC was never a superior console, except if you count that they made it out of better plastic than the others. But it don't matter how powerful your console is, if it sells like crap and gets no games to attract buyers, then by proxy, the console is crap.

Eat it.

watch that language around the kids, young man!

It actually was and you just said it was. The reason Sega didn't do well is because they couldn't afford the PR Sony could as result of there previous close calls to bankruptcy (they might have gone bankrupt actually but they were really close).



But they were already an established "quality" brand name. They made quality computers, palm pilots, ect... they had the cash to get there name every where in every tv show, have mad contests and finance the large library of games the PS sports.



I don't know if you were informed on Sega's financial situation when releasing the DC but it was a desperation attempt in regaining a place in the video game market as a console force.

You are right that PS and N64 could finance more games and eventually did better because they could afford to saturate the market with there names and logos.

All I'm saying was DC was a superior system, which you just agreed with me on in the start of your paragraph. Superior parts make a superior console, they couldn't afford to keep putting games out for a console that was selling poorly. All the experts say it was due to PR I was too young to have an opinion on it myself as I never owned a Dreamcast at the time but did own a Play Station and an N64. When I got older and the systems got cheaper I bought a DC and was totally blown away it didn't do better than the almost obsolete PS and N64 consoles.

They also did better due to price, Dreamcasts were like 300 bucks over here while the other two systems were 100.

All I'm saying is DC pwnd, it did but over the course of console history it was overshadowed by it's better selling competition.

MONEY!

Edit: SEGA was bankrupt and was bought by Sammy.

Then we're clearly arguing on two different points. All you have to do is look at the numbers to see it was a stronger, more powerful console; but in the long run it was buried. And speaking from a personal point of view, considering they unquestionably had all this technological power and yet still got crushed in the console market just proves that the Dreamcast should stay where it belongs: in history, in a file marked "never quite made it", next to HD-DVD.

the dreamcast would have fared much better had it not been released when it was.. the world was eagerly awaiting the playstation 2 when the dreamcast was released and where the sony hype machine had gone into full steam regarding specifications and the emotion engine the mass market had therfore neglected the dreamcast. with that in mind developers over looked the superior machine (dc) in favour of the inferior playstation 2.. had sega had the developers backing them it would've been a whole different story

the ps2 also had the benifit of being a dvd player, which went some way to helping it shift off the shelves.. being that it was a cheap access point to dvd technology which was at the time still very much in it's infancy and standalone players were out of the financial reach of most people.. I mean put it this way £300 for a dvd player or £300 for a ps2 which also plays dvds.. what would you have gone for at the time

[Claps Hands]

Amazing side step, they teach you that in college?

You agreed with all my points and pointed out everything I said from the start. Play Station out sold, but inferior to Dream Cast capability wise. The fact Dreamcast chose CD plat form helped usher in the fact cartridges are now obsolete for any legit console these days.

Please son, personal opinion only shows I have a higher taste for consoles then your obsolete battery oberated controller playing with ass.

Xbox 360 is bad obsolete, batteries lol.



For sure, it's the same right now with XBOX360 over PS3. We have so little really enviable exclusive titles it really reduces the amount of purchases.

lol, personal opinion. If only it was that.

All I am saying is, a console that does poorly in the market with a crap range of games is NOT superior. That is MY definition of "superior", your definition means "it has a bigger computer".

Yes, I am agreeing with what you said, because it is FACT that the Dreamcast is more powerful than the Playstation, but to me that means jack shit because it didn't have the marketability or appeal that PlayStation or N64 had in spades. That is also FACT.

We're arguing different points, man.

why are people arguing about the consoles wars between the Dreamcast, PS & N64?

Because Al wasted his money on one and is trying to justify it.

yeah but the Dreamcast wasnt even on the market until the next gen of consoles like PS2 & Nintendo Gamescube & xbox was released.

when the N64 & PS was battleing in the market. the sega saturd was there attempt....which they failed at big time.

the dreamcast wasnt bad but just lacks decent titles & the exclusives wasnt worth buying...which means they ended up being a pointless system to own.

it could handle games the ps2 could. just the world was playstation mad back then. and owning a system that could play a handful of fun games only was a waste of money back then and a bigger waste now.