Actually Sega had a great system and at the right time, not too far behind the PS2 in raw 3d power (compare Tokyo extreme Racer 2 on the Dreamcast and PS2 to see what I mean) particularly if you take into consider several fundamental features it had that the PS2 lacked:
4 controlloer ports (to the PS2's 2)
Built in 56k modem (later upgradeable to ethernet port).
Antialiasing (made away with jaggies common to 3d consoles running at such a low resolution.
Great selection of release titles
Easy to develop games for with the option of coding a game for the default Sega OS or having your game load Windows CE w/Direct X (5.0 I believe).
Plus the VMU's with the neat little screen for your controller were pretty neat (battery life sucked though).
However they did not opt to counter the Sony marketing hype at the time, nor offer a console w/ a DVD drive (although they did release a gold dreamcast w/ DVD in Japan). And as such they failed by not advertising it properly. That coupled with them selling the Saturn and the Dreamcast at a loss they ended up giving up on making hardware. So ultimately hardware doesn't make the console, addressing customer needs/wants, proper marketing and making it easy to code for all add up.
I ended up buying a PS2 just because of the game catalog. I would have stuck it out with my Dreamcast but I eventually ran out of games to buy for it ( I would have loved to buy Armada 2, or Panzer Dragoon for it...).
I'm not old enough to remember. But how much were Albums (LP's) in their heyday? I remember my sisters buying 45's for what came up to about a buck each, so I can't imagine a full album was that much back then (taking inflation into consideration).
If what I'm thinking is true, then with the advent of CDs (which eventually became cheap to manufacture) album prices skyrocketed to the perceived value of music on an optical disk.
" This government weapon will be tuned to the frequency of silicon atoms."
One can only hope the enemy won't think to use this ype of weapon against California....
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Actually Sega had a great system and at the right time, not too far behind the PS2 in raw 3d power (compare Tokyo extreme Racer 2 on the Dreamcast and PS2 to see what I mean) particularly if you take into consider several fundamental features it had that the PS2 lacked:
4 controlloer ports (to the PS2's 2)
Built in 56k modem (later upgradeable to ethernet port).
Antialiasing (made away with jaggies common to 3d consoles running at such a low resolution.
Great selection of release titles
Easy to develop games for with the option of coding a game for the default Sega OS or having your game load Windows CE w/Direct X (5.0 I believe).
Plus the VMU's with the neat little screen for your controller were pretty neat (battery life sucked though).
However they did not opt to counter the Sony marketing hype at the time, nor offer a console w/ a DVD drive (although they did release a gold dreamcast w/ DVD in Japan). And as such they failed by not advertising it properly. That coupled with them selling the Saturn and the Dreamcast at a loss they ended up giving up on making hardware. So ultimately hardware doesn't make the console, addressing customer needs/wants, proper marketing and making it easy to code for all add up.
I ended up buying a PS2 just because of the game catalog. I would have stuck it out with my Dreamcast but I eventually ran out of games to buy for it ( I would have loved to buy Armada 2, or Panzer Dragoon for it...).
But any word on how many asses it has?
I'm not old enough to remember. But how much were Albums (LP's) in their heyday? I remember my sisters buying 45's for what came up to about a buck each, so I can't imagine a full album was that much back then (taking inflation into consideration).
If what I'm thinking is true, then with the advent of CDs (which eventually became cheap to manufacture) album prices skyrocketed to the perceived value of music on an optical disk.
" This government weapon will be tuned to the frequency of silicon atoms." One can only hope the enemy won't think to use this ype of weapon against California....