Dreamcast Was the Dreamcast the best gaming console ever made?

[BigTony]

Its cool but it's not particularly good the library kinda sucks

 

[MajesticSiN]

No but It was an amazing console.
The Dreamcast had a bunch of hits and must plays.

 

[PhrawzT]

It was my favorite party console. I spent countless nights with friends playing Powerstone 2, Project Justice, Giga Wing 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2

 

[_Lorenzo_]

@FiorDiLoto If you want to dive deeper into Dreamcast hardware (and its various revisions), check out Igor Maggiorelli's (Igorstellar) YT channel. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted in a while.

 

[Mechablade-X]

It was a great console way ahead and advanced for it's time. It wasn't perfect but i feel like it was the last game console that was made...for you, who loves video games, want good game experiences etc.

 

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[Psychonara]

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[Vardalis]

That title belongs to PS2, Dreamcast died way too early before it had the chance to grow though its small library literally had no bad games whatsoever.

Completely agree. I do like the Dreamcast, but I'd be being utterly disingenuous if I tried to claim it had the PS2 beat in any truly meaningful capacities. There's a reason the PS2 endures even now in some parts of the world where the Dreamcast is only fondly remembered in these sorts of circles.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

was the Dreamcast the best gaming console ever made?

I can absolutely see this statement as true for many people.

I was fortunate enough to own Sega Dreamcast since 9/9/99 anticipated the system since reading about the upcoming home console Katana. Dreamcast is one of my favorite gaming consoles ever made, easily top 5. Nostalgia aside, It comes down to it's library of software released- arcade ports (fighters, shmups, puzzle, rhythm) which are my preferred genres when it comes to video games. It was the ultimate console for these type of games. Of course it had other genres as well (RPG, strategy, adventure, survival-horror, sport, etc.).

While I do appreciate PlayStation 2 large library essentially covering nearly everything Dreamcast has to offer- I dislike it's primary strengths 3D platformers, large 3D open-environment type games, FPS, and the direction most RPGs & action-adventure games decided to go. Also prefer the overall graphics and visuals of most games on Dreamcast over PS2 (at times) shady look.

 

[Majora Fi]

Nope?

 

[Don Patch]

Short answer: No.
But it was great. And could have continued to be if Sega had just listened to Stolar.
It was a wonderful point in time and I personally cherish the device and games.

 

[Feitang]

That title belongs to PS2, Dreamcast died way too early before it had the chance to grow though its small library literally had no bad games whatsoever.

I dont understand and will never understand why people bring up ps2 being the greatest gaming console when 50% of ps2 sales was people buying it to watch movies. what movies have to do with gaming is beyond me. The ones who like to say "ps2 sold 50 million" ya when people bought it to watch movies does that really count as a gaming console? i wouldnt really say someone watching a movie is gaming.

I was around when ps2 launched and because it could play dvds and dvd players were near the same price as a ps2...people bought the ps2 only to watch films. they did not care to play games and i wouldnt be surprised if some people never even bought games. i think its also sad ps2 at the end of its life cycle released i think 1,800 games and i bet you cant name 40 ps2 games but you can name 40 n64 games.

The dreamcast wasnt the greatest gaming console only due to the fact its life was cut short. But it could have been. It had the vmu which was cool seeing icons of your memory cards letting you know which game you were playing. 4 player ports and the controller design was unique like the n64. the ps2 was a clone of the ps1 with a dvd player inside. but the jump from snes to n64 was huge. the jump from saturn to dreamcast was huge. I dunno but every playstation release has looked the same with just more power thats why they just added a number everytime.

 

[silver9000]

For a Brazilian kid named Leonam, it apparently was the hottest console ever.

 

[pang]

Library is what makes platform/console great. Dreamcast had almost none. So no. Definitely not the best.

food for thought: dreamcast ended up having 619 games released over a short, short lifespan (end of '98 to '01, around 50 of those were after 2001). shockingly, despite gcn running full force from the end of 2001 through the end of 2005, it only had 651 games (a little under twice as long, and there was stuff trickling in in '06 prior to the wii's launch). on top of that, the gcn library is chock-full of multiplat licensed junk; it's got plenty of great games, but third party support was less than stellar. dreamcast, on the other hand, has a much more eclectic library: its ports are often upscaled/enhanced ports of 5th gen games, and it has a startling roster of weird and intriguing third-party titles like illbleed, seventh cross, napple tale, and elemental gimmick gear, beyond the incredible arcade ports and first-party classics. part of this was, contrary to other reports in this thread, the console was easy to develop for, with a familiar off-the-shelf PowerVR GPU, no multi-cpu shenanigans like the saturn, and an ease on bus limitations as compared to the n64.

I don't think it's really the best console ever (despite all of that above, ps1 probably takes the cake for me) but the dreamcast punched way above its weight given the short lifespan and sega exiting the platform market