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?
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Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.
There are no good guys. Nintendo has patented gameplay mechanics and have even taking a company to court for using said mechanic. This action is not good for the industry.
Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.
And you make profit off of outdated hardware.
I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.
I didn't want to say anything but drivxr is right.
Nintendo always sells at a profit because they purposely use tech that's always 5 or more years behind. And it's also true their games hardly ever get price decreases.
Don't get me wrong, it's great they kept most of their workforce, but making a point to have your tech specs behind everyone else affords that luxury.
I don’t think it’s their purpose to use old tech. It’s their purpose to make value of software and know their value. Nobody makes games like them that’s for sure. I just don’t appreciate their customer unfriendly policy.
It’s not impossible to take their status. Companies need to have a selection of 8-bit and 16-bit. Now imagine a split screen for 8 player game for SNES Mario kart and selling at $9.99. The problem is that it doesn’t make profit. So many companies won’t invest in “old” technology. Everyone guns for triple AAA modern technology software but honestly we can enjoy modernized 16-bit creative ideas that allows 8-player mayhem. It’s a pipe dream, possible but impossible.
If they ended up kicking people out after all of that stated above, it would be truly shameful.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla and Meta are all trillion dollar companies yet they are laying people off in large numbers.
I believe the reason Nintendo layoffs off less workers may be a result of their culture. It seems Japanese companies believe in giving their workers long term or life long employment opportunities and will exhaust all options before laying off workers. This is something we don't see much of in the west unfortunately.
What the hell are you talking about? It has nothing to do with how profitable they are. Its completely cultural, MS and Sony make stacks of cash and still lay folks off. Nintendo chose not to lay off staff for the same reason their execs took pay cuts to increase staff pay instead; because they value their staff and view them as colleagues, and respect them as such.
If Sony weren't so US centric I fancy they'd fare better too, they should get shot of US and European leadership and go back to when Japanese execs were running the show if you ask me!
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...