"The prototype fan project to create a Dreamcast 2, also known as Project Dream, has been having a turbulent development cycle. Various rumors circled that there were internal struggles and that nothing was materializing. Today, however, the team have returned with some great news."
Unlike most SNL special guests from the 00s, a lot of NES games just do not age.
This is the story of how the creators of the all-time best selling console almost crippled its own successor’s early life.
They retired Ken Kutaragi, moved away from overly expensive custom hardware, and went with more traditional hardware available to the market and listened to developer needs.
It's true but also PlayStation publicly came out and stated third party wasn't important to them.
ironic that what worked for them the previous generation caused them significant pain in the subsequent one.
The PS2 was actually a significant challenge to develop for far worse than the PS1 ever was but the competition at the time was struggling so much they couldn't make up the ground Dreamcast had a stigma of being a last gen console by the time the PS2 came around and looked inferior compared to games like grab Turismo 3, the GameCube and Xbox were still a ways away and PlayStation had the reputation as being the place to play it was a perfect storm for them and the GTA games not coming to Dreamcast and Sony's embrace really helped.
Third party basically drove PlayStation yi success over more capable consoles Xbox may have looked better at the time but it didn't have GTA 3, vc, Sa or the stories games the mainline entries didn't hit the Xbox until many years after being on PlayStation.
Then the PS3 with it's cell architecture ramped it up again and just hurt Devs they didn't focus on the GPU as much as they should have and they didn't realise their deals they made with IBM could have resulted in the cell architecture being shared with Microsoft which it was and it did help them develop the 360
But really the 90s and 2000s were a wild time for game consoles now it's a little boring it's all off the shelf components and everything is mostly the same
After losing so many 3rd party exclusives, they buckled down and concentrated on amazing first party games! God of war 3, Killzone 2, resistance, uncharted, the last of us, MgS4, little big planet, demon souls and so many more games!! They won the gamers back by playing smart! Even though the media and all big gaming websites from ign, gamespot, kotaku etc were all against it!! I had fun with ps2, but it's ps3 where I really grew up and had the time of my life.
Senior Art Director Gavin Whelan Talks about the game with Skewed and Reviewed at PAX East.
Why are they calling it Dreamcast 2, I remember it was just going to play DC games in HD, but emulated.
Don't click on the "Full Story" it is just a paragraph about a re tweet
I genuinely smile when I read that this project is still doing well, I have high hopes for it.
edit: looks like some major players in the group quit. Not sure what's going on but awaits video.
I still find it sad that the original Dreamcast failed. People just didn't give it a chance and it had a lot of good games on it. If only Sega didn't waste so much time and money on all the other failed projects, who knows how far the Dreamcast could have went.
Microsoft got a big surprise at E3