![]() The marketing for Dreamcast in America was great but they went ALL IN for the launch but didn't plan for the future. They also probably didn't have the money to pull that off and I'm not even sure if they recouped for the creation of the Dreamcast. They just had to take the L and not release anything else. It came after that disaster Sega Saturn and if Sega wanted to compete with the PS2 they had to come with a totally new system immediately after Dreamcast which if they did it would've flopped. Dreamcast was crack but Sega was constantly putting out systems and Sega literally lost the trust of the consumer. Playstation 2 was DVD compatible and backwards compatible with PS1 games also and that was very huge at that time. The rumors started a year or two before the PS2 release and after the huge success of the Playstation everyone was salivating at the mouth like waiting on the baked macaroni on Thanksgiving. It was inevitable and nothing they could do about it. Remember he came back and beat everybody ass backstage and then proceeded to hand out Stunners to everybody in the ring one by one and basically defeated WCW/ECW by himself on that Monday Night Raw episode? Yes that was the PS2. The Playstation 2 was a buzz saw and Dreamcast was going into it head first. The wait for the Playstation 2 was the equivalent of everybody waiting for Stone Cold Steve Austin to make his return in the WWE vs WCW/ECW shit. If this system was so great why did it last only a year and a half? Let's start with the obvious. Power Stone 2, Shenmue, and Jet Grind Radio with up to date graphics! I'd never give a fuck about "Hey Arnold" or Vagina ever again (Okay I'm lying), but that's how serious it would be. ![]() You can't convince me it wouldn't be the coldest shit on the market today. Let's say hypothetically Sega Dreamcast wasn't created and released on 9-9-99 and instead was released NOW with it's same titles it had but with the up to date graphics of the PS4 and Xbox One. It was just released at the wrong time. Think about this. All are great systems but Sega Dreamcast was ahead of it's fucking time and that what was incredible about it and it's downfall at the same time. We can even throw the father of all this shit, ATARI in the mix. Nintendo 64 was dope and brought Nintendo back. Playstation 2 (Some call it GOATstation 2) was a monster. It was good and had some cool games but it's forgettable to me. Super Nintendo doesn't even get a seat at the table when talking the greatest consoles in my opinion and I owned one so no need to talk about that. Let's be fucking real it gave us Streets Of Rage & Sonic. Sega Genesis changed the game again with great arcade titles and made sport games even more popular. The system that created "Gamers" with one of the largest game libraries in history with every type of title you could think of. How could a system that lasted literally a year and a half even be considered one of the greatest systems of all time? You have the first NES. The Sega Dreamcast just might have been the greatest system of all time. Living life 16 years after the Dreamcast's release and seeing a lot of things come full circle in society and the gaming world. In life when you look back in hindsight it's easy to see the gems. It's normal but did we really realize what the fuck we really experienced? We seriously had gold in our possession. Why did we do it? We were victims to hype and trends as kids of course. We were all guilty of getting rid of it faster than root beer and banana popsicles in the summer. It's been 16 years since it's release in the United States and it went as quick as it came. Christmas of 1999 was the last time anyone bought me a game console. If we only knew then how stupid being an adult is back then we'd cherish everything and actually chill outside catching bugs and climbing trees instead of smoking black and milds pretending it's weed and trying to be like gangster rappers who are grown. We act like little shits when we're teenagers just so we can feel like we're grown. Teenagers think they're too cool for everything. I was too cool for that shit after that year. I say it was my last true one because that's the last time the holiday had a innocent childhood feel to it for me personally.
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