How would things be different in the universe where the Dreamcast wasn't discontinued early?
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How would things be different in the universe where the Dreamcast wasn't discontinued early?
Sega would have continued to pay off reviewers and make more overrated games
Why does anyone even want 4 similar consoles on the market at the same time?
SEGAs best output was when they had hardware to support.
Would the Xbox still have been a success in a universe where the Dreamcast survived post-2001?
Yes, because Halo.
Wrong.
>Wrong
They have continually output fewer and fewer games after 6th gen.
Higher quality games.
so has everybody else in a world of big graphical expectations and even bigger budgets.
subjective, to the tune of you're a b***h if you think sonic shovelware and a dozen yakuza games matches their glory days output.
What if Halo had been a Dreamcast title in this alternate universe?
Microsoft fricking BOUGHT Bungie, what do you think?
What is the proof that Halo was ever going to be on Dreamcast? As I understand it, it was always going to be for PC/Mac in the early days. Bungie never made or announced a console game before the Xbox.
I imagine a number of those would have been pretty bad compared to the Xbox versions we actually got. Maybe they would have ported some of their post-DC 2000s arcade games at least.
No, gamecube would have crushed the dreamcast
>would have
It did
>$60 for 10 minutes long arcade games
GOD NO, NO!
Much worse, we'd probably not even get half of those and if we did they'd be the downgraded "arcade" versions.
What had to happen, happened. Sega didn't capitalize on what made them good, their hardware was already underpowered for the time, their controller sucked, their games were expensive and geared towards a Japanese/arcade audience mostly (which to me isn't a bad thing at all, on the contrary, but to the average joe player it certainly is) but even the japs didn't want those games, everyone was fricking tired of arcade games at that point and the PS2 brought new stuff to the front. Thankfully Sega were a major component in making the Xbox successful.
To this day I'm surprised MS didn't outright buy Sega but maybe the Japs didn't want to sell or their finances were dodgy. Someone who watched one of those epic gaymen youtubers retelling "why the Dc failed" will probably correct me however.
Isn't it extremely difficult for American companies to buy Japanese ones?
I don't know. I guess if it isn't publicly traded it's pretty hard.
It's not American companies specifically, but yes. The Japanese government has to approve foreign purchasers of many Japanese companies above some threshold.
So, I own Sega stock, but a small amount. It's not a big deal. If I wanted to buy 30% (or whatever the threshold is) it would require some sort of government approval.
That's my understanding of it at least. Don't know if it applies to technology and entertainment. Which is what Sega-Sammy is.
Almost none of those games would work on the Dreamcast. Like how in the hell would it be able to run fricking JSRF, Yakuza 1 or Shadow the Hedgehog? Does this picture mean that they would have less advanced graphics? Can somebody give me an answer without resorting to the
>Dreamcast is 10000000x more powerful than the PS2
meme
Yakuza 2 was released in Japan in December 2006. The Dreamcast would've been incredibly lucky to make it to December 2004.
The difference is that now instead of Sega going 3rd party, Sega nearly goes bankrupt and gets bought out.