Some folk think that the Dreamcast failed due to shoddy marketing, and others think it was doomed from the start. What led to the downfall of this fantastic console?
As consoles go, the SNES has quite the family friendly image. But, just like a Pizza Hut when you look at its hygiene rating or taste its pizza or breathe inside a restaurant, it’s not always good for everyone.
The golden age. No ESRB*. No ratings at all. It was glorious.
*I know the ESRB was formed by the industry to prevent others from stepping in and taking control.
This should make fans attending the ahow event happier as Bandai Namco is bringing some interesting game experiences to the convention.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
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Hard to say but it definitely leaned towards doom more than success.
Sega had some of the best franchises and some of the best developers in the business. At home or in the arcade.
The marketing was on point as I was a sales lead at the time at Electronics's Boutique. The games, the size of the console, the date of release were all great. The hype was there and people like Tony Hawk, Triple H,Coolio and Sheena Easton came into my store looking for it or supported it. And there was Soul Calibur.
But it was Sega's poor leadership and burning of bridges with developers and retail because of the Saturn,etc that sunk the console. With big developers like EA ignoring Sega for using Power VR and not a 3Dfx card that would give EA an advantage they were familiar with. That and competing sports games that put EA's sports games to shame.
As much as I love Sega games, they did it to themselves. But it's the best console they ever made after the Genesis. (Still have my Sega nomad, Sega Saturn and 2 Dreamcasts.)
The Dreamcast didn't use CD-Roms, it used GD-Roms. While GD-Roms weren't as big as DVDs, it was a significant upgrade over CDs.
I've always liked Sega especially the arcade games up until they went software and went south with quality in games. What the hell happened?
As a kid when this was announced it was OBVIOUS it was doomed before it released and i called it's death. Sad that millionaire executives couldn't see the obvious...
What's weird though is that the same people that bought into the dreamcast are the one's that jumped on 360 because "NEXT GEN!!!", I just had to wait for ps2...