08-31-2014, 10:46 PM
(08-31-2014, 02:16 PM)JiraiyaSennin Wrote: I always hear good things from people abut the Dreamcast, but it seems like it failed. What happened to it?
Sega of Japan and Sega of America hated each other quite a lot and decisions to do things were usually met with hostility, so bad company relations was never good.
Then you had the whole Sega CD, 32X and Saturn mess where they basically wasted tons and tons of money on these products only for them to fail miserably.
Sega also kept supporting consoles too much, I believe they supported the Mega Drive and Master System till 1998 just because a small portion of people kept buying it.
Another huge problem was that no one trusted Sega anymore, so without a lot of trust a lot of people weren't going to buy the Dreamcast.
Then you had the games, while they were great the casuals didn't want them. EA basically said they're not going to support them with sports titles and so casuals didn't care for the console, games like Jet Set Radio and Space Channel 5 don't appeal the casuals similarly to how games like The Wonderful 101 doesn't appeal to casuals.
They also spent something like $14 billlion dollars on creating Shenmue 1 and 2 which only received around one fourth in revenue.
And last but not least, they were up against a DVD player and other upcoming consoles, they just didn't have the money to keep up with them and had to give up in 2001.
There's probably a lot more, including things you could link back to the Saturn and such, but those are the more important ones.