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Originally Posted by TheEdge
In a nutshell, just bad timing. Sega released it ahead of schedule, hoping to get a jump on the PSX. They didn't give their third-party the heads-up, though, so it launched with only a small number of games that didn't grow for a long time.
Meanwhile, the PSX launched at a cheaper price and with a much larger library of games.
Didn't that happen a second time with Dreamcast and the PS2? What a bunch of morons.
Actually, I think they did everything right with the dreamcast. Its just that everyone was still so pissed about the Saturn (sega's mistake cost everyone money) that some stores refused to stock it and some developers (like EA) refused to produce for it.
People stood in line to buy it.
Yeah . . . So was that a correction to something I said, or just a "from a consumer's stand-point" post script? :)
I think it was a horrible idea to cut the cord on Dreamcast. They should have at least kept selling a small amount of games and DC consoles on an order by order basis while making new games for the other non-sega consoles.
They would have made a lot of money and showed some respect for their costumers that way.
Me? Just agreeing with you. Just saying people stood in line to buy on the first few days. People wanted the Dreamcast when it came out . Sega must have done something right
I believe that had to cut the cord in order to produce for other systems. Contract hijinks and such
I think it all went downhill after they fired their Pro-Dreamcast CEO because of "Differences of Opinions"
Type into YouTube "History of the Dreamcast" It definitley shed some light on some stuff.
Maybe it was just getting too hard. It seems like the 32x and the Saturn caused so many headaches that bled into the dreamcast era that once the dreamcast began to suffer because of previous transgressions, it might have been something of a relief to get out of the hardware business.
What if sega had sat out of the 32-bit generation completely? The dreamcast would have been the immediate successor to the Genesis. I wonder if that would have changed anything.
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Originally Posted by Mr Smith
I don't have an upper limit but unless it's uber rare i'll always try and get it as cheap as possible. For instance, i have a side collection of N64 games and to date, other than the games i bought new back in the day, i haven't paid more than a £1 for any of them.
Oh I see that you're in Pottstown. That's like a 40 minute drive from where I am. What are the name of the places near you that sell games?
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Originally Posted by Jesse813
Sweet Jesus. Check out the deal I found on CraigsList!
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/tag/889785817.html
What is it with people putting the $ sign after the number? I can understand doing so, if you are from Europe, but that isn't how it's done in the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Once the copy protection was cracked, it made no sense to do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEdge
Since I have started to write on this site, I have started to collect video games. I think that the most I have spent in one fell swoop was $110 for a master system, six games and some genesis and 2600 games.
But, Its 2 AM and I am wasted. Ill elaborate when I am sober.