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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 352733, member: 660650"] Well Dreamcast has good games and compared to really failed consoles I wouldn't even call Saturn "failed" because they both have decent libraries. My favorite console is Sega Genesis due to its library and for my taste if someone liked NES's library TBH pretty much similar quality of games are present in Dreamcast. I mean on NES most games were not everyone liked. Everyone found their own style of games they liked. It wasn't like liking tons of games on Sega Genesis, and Dreamcast has its own "game for me" aspect of the library therefore it shouldn't be underestimated for sure. However what people misunderstood back then is wrong sense of "the best". I understand financial concerns making people buy one console and sticking with it and that's why buying PS1 and PS2 was best bets then, but for new gamer types came with popularity of PS1 they had no idea how video game industry really is because they had no such a gamer culture. They had no way of living to try lots of consoles and their games to find which games you like. And they had no idea that sales of PS1 was massive that was not normal. I mean to say for example Dreamcast was not failed per se, it was just overshadowed because of existence of PS1 and then PS1 became a too big deal. Without existence of PS1 Dreamcast would sell ok and loved, without PS2 Dreamcast would be the talk of the town. It wouldn't be a console that was released and quickly forgotten for how sucks it was. As for "launch titles", I honestly never cared about that. Since witnessing success of PS1 and how popular it was it was no rocket science to figure out how whole industry would be focused on PS2 and fill it with tons of games so either way you could find amazing games. IMO PS2 could never had an awesome library Sega Genesis could have (which no other console could have for my taste) yet lots of my favourite video games of all times on PS2 while Dreamcast having good games they are not my favourites per se. I don't see the point of being die-hard fan boi and prefer one console in every generation or something but I still say no one would regret buying a PS2 or Dreamcast especially if they have no financial issues but if they have the issues I'm sure most people would either regret buying Dreamcast and cannot afford PS2 when it was popular and they probably skipped to PS3 or they would be proud to be the one person who admires Dreamcast when people favors PS2 more. In the end besides of financial issues, it was new generation gamer type logic of picking one console and playing it instead of caring about multiple consoles to play all. Old gamers didn't take sides because there weren't many games to play so you would naturally explore all consoles available to you, but it's a modern gaming thing that PS1 came and spamming tons of games people felt like "buy just a PS1 and ignore other consoles" that this mentality carried over to PS2 era and so on. In that regard I cannot deny that I barely had time to play my PS1 games even few years after PS2 released to keep up with the current time when my life didn't give me much free time to play games back then. And then PS1's popularity bringing new "gamer types" but they weren't really gamers who played games a lot, they were the type of gamers who are clueless about gaming so they only play the most popular ones because "everyone plays so" but they play games for 20 minutes and never playing them again after they say "wow Resident Evil 1 was amazing dude". And then owning a PS1 and PS2 was social thing to show off and not being behind of society just like buying iPhone these days so it was the mentality to despise people who have a Dreamcast instead because to them it feels like "oh poor buy using Android!! If I were you I would suicide" lolol. [/QUOTE]

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