15 Gadgets That Failed to Soar

Burticus said:
Dreamcast was a great machine. Everyone blames piracy that killed it but actually it was Sega management shooting itself in the feet over and over. They basically stopped advertising once the PS2 came out. Management had already decided they couldn't beat Sony, and so they didn't try.

EA actually approached Sega about making games exclusive for Dreamcast (or at least with a significant delay from the PS2). Sega turned them down, preferring to keep it in-house with 2K studios... then EA bought the rights to the entire NFL world and suddenly 2K couldn't make any more "NFL" football games.

The final nail in the coffin was not actually from Sony's PS2 however... it was the XBox. Sega management thought they had an alliance with MS because they licensed their Windows CE OS. They did not even see Xbox coming. Management was so scared sh!tless of Microsoft that it just gave up and called it game over. They put the Dreamcast on the clearance shelf and killed all game titles still in development. Idiots.

Dreamcast was the first console with 3D graphics and online gaming (56k modem first, then the ethernet adapter). The Dreamcast team actually wanted ethernet first, but the oh so talented management FORCED them to develop and use a modem instead, thinking the general public all used dialup (a good idea in 1995 I guess, but when it released in 99?).

Then the piracy thing, and by 2000 cd burners and blank media were affordable.
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Interesting. I did owned a dreamcast briefly , it was a great console, with great graphics.. I wonder how piracy would have really affect it if they made all the right moves though.
 
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Where is that picture of their headquarters that looks utterly abandoned?
 
Snowdog said:
The "we said" part is funny because it looks like "stuff" got it wrong over and over.
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More specifically, they seem to think everything that crosses their path will be awesome and the next huge thing. So in conclusion, stuff is full of fawning idiots.
 
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