From a consumer point of view, the Dreamcast was a hit, and I would argue that it remains so to this day. What hurt Sega most of all was the bad blood it had created with publishers, most notably EA, who refused to develop on it after the experience with Saturn. Combine this with the massive hype and solid product that was the PS2, and well - we all know how that turned out. Sega DID go all out, and gave us perhaps the best console in their history. There’s two things that could have turned the tide a bit here in the US, IMHO. First, if arcades hadn’t already been on their decline, there might have been more NAOMI development, and those games would have easily translated to the Dreamcast. Second, if more developers/publishers had jumped on board, some of the innovative genres that flourished on the PS2 could have found a home on Dreamcast, especially with the advantage the VMU and its display to provide information to the user. Sadly, none of that happened, and while it fizzled out here in the US, I firmly believe that Japan got the best of what the Dreamcast had to offer, since several developers/publishers kept making games for it until about 2005/2006.

Great video! I'll say this...SEGA WENT OUT WITH A BANG!! Had a buddy put his neogeo in the closet and bought a Dreamcast since all the best Neogeo games were ported pretty much perfect to the DC. I don't own one anymore but I still own my old discs for it. Garou, KoF and Dynamite Cop. Great memories.

Great Video. The Dreamcast was truly a game changer for me. I have never been so excited as when i bought my DC way back then, and i loved every minute of it, and still do. The sports games, arcade ports, and games like Shenmue and D2 defined everything i wanted from the industry. Still have my original DC console from 1999, and still play it regularly. Something about that time in gaming is better than modern gen. BTW great perspective on NFL 2k and Flag to Flag, you said it Perfectly.

More Dreamcast please!!!!

Soul Calibur was the 1st game to incorporate bones and muscles,giving the movements a life like feel to it.

The Dreamcast was an amazing experience, and it really genuinely felt like you have the arcade experience without any compromises at all, which was actually true for some games built on the Naomi arcade boards I believe. The saturn brough the arcades home, but while they were very good, almost all of them had some compromises in visuals and performance. The Dreamcast's controller was the only thing that kept the Saturn ahead of it for me, I didn't love the controller. I was quite sad when the DC died, and buddy and I were DEEEEEEEP into Phantasy Star Online when we heard Sega had end of lifed the console. I still remember where I was when I was told...

I'm guessing I'm just a few years older than you (?) but my perspective on the Dreamcast (at that time) was one of harsh condemnation: I saw Sega as a company that had lost its way, and had lost any sense of mandate, distinctive house style, or target demographic. I wasn't the only one: the executives at _Electronic Arts_ decided they would neither provide a needle nor a thread of support to the console from day one -and I would have made the same decision in their shoes. I could make a video talking reflecting on this stuff, but my regular audience would probably hate me for it: in general, I was one of the many people who regarded the Dreamcast as "doomed" (and "for losers") from its launch through to its failure. A note on competition: this was also the period in which the P.C. itself was replacing consoles as never before (something already evident during the Saturn-vs-N64 era). At that time, unlike the 16 bit era, consoles didn't just need to be better than other consoles: they needed to justify why anyone would need a console at all.

🔥🔥🔥. Well done and well said.

The Dreamcast is still the truth!!!

Fantastic era

I remember buying one of these when I was deployed in Iraq! I used to put it in the day room in on a huge TV so that we can all play Saul Caliber! Later on I needed money because my wife and I where expecting a child, so I sold it to a friend of mine for $200.00. He gave me $100.00 up front and said that that he will give me the rest when we get back to Germany. The sad thing was that he ended up getting killed on a convoy on our last mission. That messed me all up! His Sgt. asked me if I wanted the DC back, I said no! Let his kid have it back home. I’m sure he loved it and helped him remember his dad. After that tragic event I could never replace the System so I never purchased another one. It was just triggering to me to remember that tragic day! Even now, as I watch your video it brought me back to those days. Thankfully, I am able to handle it better now, and enjoy playing these games on my PC. Thanks a lot for this video. It was really educational and well done! That was my event with the Dream Cast. I really enjoyed your video! Thanks!

Way before it's time with online features and the VMU. I loved mine and wish I had kept it.

All i remember was the fire sale at game stop. At that point i stopped playing games.. thank the n64.... 20 years later im enjoying this system.. modded with a dcdigital and gdemu its an amazing piece of hardware. The eithernet adapter is useless. But it is fun to play quake iii when someone is actually on the server.

Sega all day the last real console

What could they have done with the software if this console got a proper 7 year run

Good video, nice screen captures.

SEGA kind of is back though: Yakuza serie! and publisher for Persona serie, total war RTS serie (medieval, shogun, rome, empire, warhammer etc) and even causal games like Two point hospital/campus. And Sonic? 300-400 million at the box office for both movies so far. I mean, SEGA literally have Yakuza 8 in development, and a prequel to Yakuza 8 AND a 1800 Yakuza spin-off out next year. Even Valkyria Chronicles was one of my favorite game of the ps3 generation AND it had skies of arcadia characters cameo in it. SEGA reported a profit for 250 million dollars this year, SEGA isnt going anywhere! The reason the dreamcast failed was obvious- people like me realized that the Saturn had bombed and we knew a Playstation 2 was around the corner that was also backward compatible (which was insane back then to know, nintendo didnt offer it with their consoles) AND ps2 would come with a DVD player which was perfect for your room - now you could game AND watch movies in your own room. Dreamcast was a great console but when you compare it to the ps2 it made no sense to 95% of us gamers out there.

I hate to tell you this but Sega was a laughing STOCK of the gaming world in the 1990's Dreamcast was joke and sega saturn was trash... sega and nintendo DIED in the 90's and if you still game on those consoles you live in the past. Sega and nintendo are outdated trash in the modern world. There are NO MORE sega kids. sorry NOT!