Sega hints at the Dreamcast 2!!

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Originally Posted by BERT-O

The 1st Gen Xbox had almost the same hardware as the DreamCast but everyone got sick of Sega. From I recalled, Halo was suppose to come out on the DreamCast as well w/ few otheres.

I hated being a video game dork when I was younger,

Your wrong and and wrong my friend.


Xbox rocks a celeron processor with hdd ram and a nvidia gpu. Essentially Xbox was a DIRECT X BOX hence the name.


Now the DC used the in house VR2 Sega arcade style board with propritary GD-roms for discs. DC's downfall was it didn't rock the DVD player that PS2 had. DC was winning until everyone who didn't have a DVD player flocked to the PS2 because it played DVD's( most peoples first dvd player) and Games; just like PS3 and Blu Ray.

Halo was built to be a killer app for the MAC orginally. Then Bungie got bought out in a stratigic move by M$ and the rest is history.

[88TillInfinity]

Originally Posted by Hey it's Aaron

Your wrong and and wrong my friend.


Xbox rocks a celeron processor with hdd ram and a nvidia gpu. Essentially Xbox was a DIRECT X BOX hence the name.


Now the DC used the in house VR2 Sega arcade style board with propritary GD-roms for discs. DC's downfall was it didn't rock the DVD player that PS2 had. DC was winning until everyone who didn't have a DVD player flocked to the PS2 because it played DVD's( most peoples first dvd player) and Games; just like PS3 and Blu Ray.

Halo was built to be a killer app for the MAC orginally. Then Bungie got bought out in a stratigic move by M$ and the rest is history.

This man speaks the truth!

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Originally Posted by Hey it's Aaron

DC's downfall was it didn't rock the DVD player that PS2 had. DC was winning until everyone who didn't have a DVD player flocked to the PS2 because it played DVD's( most peoples first dvd player) and Games; just like PS3 and Blu Ray.

That's pretty much it. Other missteps happened the generations before. The Saturn was handled poorly in every region outside of Japan, which disappointment everyone except the hardcore gamers and developers. The Master System, Game Gear and even Genesis were looked at as second-rate systems when compared to Nintendo's offerings. The public just wasn't buying into another SEGA console by that time.

It's a shame, really. The Saturn and Dreamcast were my two favorite systems. SEGA, as a game developer, was at the top of their game during the end of the Saturn era and beginning of the DC's short life. SEGA was all about innovation when it came to hardware - they made the DC online-capable right out of the box; the Saturn had an upgradeable RAM cartridge for arcade-perfect imports like X-Men vs. Street Fighter; their NiGHTS gamepad would eventually evolve into the DC gamepad, then Xbox gamepad, etc.

I somewhat consider the Xbox (and 360) the spiritual successor to them due to some of the more hardcore games developed for the system. Thankfully, there's enough support by gamers and developers for Microsoft's consoles.