/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8235468
Japanese salaryman dedication to their vidya.

What the fuck is that cover

By being a genuine arcade system in your home, with the most talented game developers in Japan being excited to work on it while capturing heart and minds in the west as well with plenty of power and thoughtful design that included internet out of the box and VMU. Everything being heightened at the turn of the millennium also contributed, we were entering the future during a time of economic optimism which of course came crashing down fast when the dot-com bubble burst.

>>8235468
>great catalogue
lol, you mean two broken 3D platformers, 100 run of the mill fighting games, classic 3D experiences like the Floigan Brothers Episode 1, and like 5 actual good titles.

>>8235481
Enjoy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RuQsTdrLs&list=PL_65I-AyktreHYi8Gf5OGZM_Y8z5V2-g7&index=1
8 gr8 subtitled Japanese commercials for DC. Picture is from the first one.

>>8235468
Is that a custom Dreamcast? I’ve seen that box on auction sites but inside is always a regular white dreamcast.

The Dreamcast didn't kill the Dreamcast. The Saturn killed the Dreamcast.

>>8235509
Rise up Yukawa!

I still believe

>>8235576
Mostly this. But the Dreamcast was also released a bit too early and too weak to truely compete with gen6 consoles. Half the memory of the PS2, GD-ROM being a much worse format then DVD, weaker CPU and GPU then the PS2, etc, etc. And the PS2 was the weakest in hardware compared to the GC and XBox even, so the DC was blown out hardware wise.
I'd say the DC needed 1 to 2 more years in the oven but I'm not sure Sega had the cash to even do so.

>>8235468
It didn't, it's an overrated meme

>>8235576
Shut the fuck up nigger, Sega didn't start losing massive amounts of money until 1998

>>8235481
I think it was a clumsy attempt to follow up the successful Segata Sanshiro ad campaign

>>8235879
the truth lies somewhere in the middle, it's actually pretty good

>>8235518
It's an official Dreamcast, not a fan mod

>>8235509
Wow that was amazing. Little old me would’ve brought a DC if I saw this shit

>>8235509
I miss old Sega so much

>>8235468
A lot of games were developed for it in a short period of time.

It was relatively easy to develop for (it was basically a Windows PC) and the game developers who made games for it had been developing 3D games for years. It came out just at the right time for many good games to be feasibly made for it in a short period of time. It was released in Japan in November of 1998. A single year marks a massive difference for technological progression in the 90's. The Sega Saturn came out November of 1994. That 4 years was a night and day difference.

The Sega Saturn did reasonably well in Japan compared to the United States. Sega could go off of its success with the Saturn and Arcade games in Japan for brand recognition.

Finally, and notably, many of its games were ports from the arcade or other platforms. Also, even games that were first released on it were made with the knowledge in mind by the developers that they could be relatively easily ported to other platforms.

>>8235468
if it lasted at least 2 years longer it would had even more great games

>>8236262
I still want a custom fan mod which looks that good.

Because it wasn't short lived (like two and a half years, that's not that far off from the OG xbox) and half of its games are just Naomi ports.

>>8236167
So, the Saturn killed Sega. Gotcha.

>>8235468
>such a great catalogue


LMAO... yep nice arcade ports you got there chap.

>>8239576
Whats your arcade high score for Sonic Adventure, Code Veronica, Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue, Grandia 2, NFL2K, Jet Grind Radio, Virtua Tennis, Sword of the Berserk, and Blue Stinger?

>>8239576
>Arcades BAD!
there has never been a biggest pleb indicator than disliking arcade games. go and masturbate to your bing bing wahoos

>>8239483
looks gaudy

>>8235509
These are somehow better than the Sanshiro ones.

>>8235509
The kids were right tho. Sega became lame after the Genesis.

>>8240778
Segata at least spotlighted some games, this is just a pathetic melodrama.

>>8235509
Holy soul

>>8235509
Kino

>>8235509
I like how the first two or so commercials aren’t actually for the Dreamcast, they’re just general Sega ads, until in universe the Dreamcast is announced and then it becomes a DC commercial series

>>8235468
Redpill me on dreamcast games. Why get one over a playstation?

>>8236386
>it was basically a Windows PC
>>>/out/

>>8236167
If it wasn't for the compound failure of 32x and Saturn, Dreamcast could have launched a bit later with an even better lineup and thwarted Sony's sabotage via the strength of their initial system and catalogue. Instead their system was even weaker than the PS2 and was doomed due to Playstation having too great of a vice grip.

>>8235468
A lot of them were just improved 5th gen ports or arcade ports. Most of the work was already done.

>>8235509
>tfw remember the fight two anons had about these commercials because of how ironic they are in retrospect and how SEGA had to have seen the writing on the wall when these were made

>>8239483
/vr/ hates custom consoles. This would have been in our old /gore/ threads.

>>8244643
>Saturn
>failure
You mutts need to keep your mouth shut; it outsold the N64 in Japan.

>>8245465
It sold 400k more units than the N64 in the smallest and least relevant market, while still being outsold by the PS1 by almost 3:1in that market, and being outsold by literally 20:1 or worse in every other market.
You will never be Japanese.

>>8236386
>>8245429
These. There were a few sources of dreamcast games:

1) improved ports of 5th gen
2) arcade games
3) PC games as the Windows CE system made windows ports very straightforward
4) Sega-made games

There's some overlap between these but they produced lots of quality games. It's baffling in some ways why the dreamcast did fail, I'm not going to pretend I know why. But here's a few things that didn't help:

1) Too great a focus on online when online was expensive and generally shitty (most people in europe still with 56k).
2) Their customer base gave up on them after the dismal failure of the Saturn and getting burned by other console add-ons before that.
3) They had no EA so that meant no FIFA for Europeans and no Madden for the US. As a final blow they also had no Pro-Evo, the alternative franchise to FIFA at the time.
4) No DVD player. It may seem small now, but to have a DVD player rather than VHS was a big thing back then. Having the DVD player in the console allowed people to play all of their movies and justified much of the expense of the console, another DVD player would cause more clutter and be more expensive.

>>8235481
Soul

>>8245490
Fuck you. consoles should have never played dvdmovies. they should only be dedicated gaming machines. You people caused the death of gaming
I'll beat the fuck out of you.
im blowing smoke on your post. fuck you

>>8245517
that anon said literally nothing about whether DVD is good or bad. Just literally stating facts that the lack of DVD drive killed sales and caused the PS2 to be a money printer. Why do facts upset you?

>>8245563
so what now you think you're better than fucking video games? if i wanted your body i'd fuck it

>>8245568
oh ok sorry, its a schizo. sorry for acknowledging them everyone.

>>8239613
>Virtua Tennis
anon...

nothing but arcade ports

>>8244643
They should have released the Dreamcast first in America, but they released it in Japan first where the Saturn was still making gangbusters.

>>8246542
And with no games, too. The Dreamcast launch in America was great, but it spent ages on the Japanese market with no software.

>>8235468
>get Dreamcast online for the first time recently
>exploring archived site full of old DLC
>discover that you could record ghost races and upload them for others to save and race against
This console really was ahead of its time with the online play. I need to figure out how to save VMU files to my PC so I can keep my lvl60+ Pinta's Quest save for the next time I tackle Skies of Arcadia.