Gadgetory

lots of gadgets have rubbish and fully deserving of their inevitable trip to the landfill but the Dreamcast was one of the best consoles ever made and yet it failed so hard that it killed Sega's entire gaming Empire is how in 1997 the Sega Saturn was losing its battle against the n64 and PlayStation Sega needed something fresh a console that waved could buy to the boring black plastic and said hello to a new generation of gaming little did Sega know that what it was building would be its final console but when you look at how invented the Dreamcast was you can see why it's still held in such high regard for instance as well as advanced graphics the Dreamcast featured a built-in modem for playing games online something that's now a huge part of gaming meanwhile the controller played host to the vmu memory card which played mini games or showed extra info during a game like how much ammo or health you have left Sega had basically invented the concept behind the Wii U years before Nintendo something that Sega and I had in common the Dreamcast Hardware was invented but so were the games in its short lifespan it played host to the visually striking jet grind radio and the sprawling Shenmue then there was Crazy Taxi Soul Calibur Power Stone Virtua Tennis Sonic Adventure 2 2 rakats Skies of Arcadia Phantasy Star Online and seaman arguably the most disturbing game ever made I guess you are just very comfortable with seeing your naked body in all those positions with innovative hardware and a great lineup of launch games it seems like Sega had done everything right so then where did it all go so wrong the Dreamcast hit the West on the 9th of September 1999 making Sega 100 million dollars in its first day on sale in the US two and a half months later North American sales hit 1 million and it seemed like Sega was back in the console race but the following year something came along that extinguished the Dreamcast hopes overnight the ps2 was more expensive than the Dreamcast and required a network adapter to go online but Sony's console had a few superpowers but Sega just couldn't compete with for example the ps2 played DVDs at a time when dedicated players were still expensive it was backwards compatible to making it tempting to those who already owned the first PlayStation Sony had a good rep with gamers and his last console had been a big hit so loads of cash to spend on promotion sager on the other hand was losing money slashing prices in an increasingly desperate bid to make the dreamcast to success but shoppers just weren't interested with the Xbox and GameCube looming Sega couldn't afford to keep fighting in January 2001 it confirmed it was abandoning the world of consoles to make games for other systems the Dreamcast had been on sale in the US for less than 18 months Sega's last console was the bestest ever built but it wasn't enough however the Dreamcast spirits can be seen living on in another system altogether Microsoft's Xbox bears more than a passing similarity to the Dreamcast from its controller to its focus on online gaming Microsoft contributed to the Dreamcast offering a version of Windows CE II that powered some Dreamcast games and giving Bill Gates & Co away to quietly experiments with the world of games consoles there are even rumors that Sega wanted Microsoft to make the Xbox backwards compatible with Dreamcast games but it was not to be those the Dreamcast have a special place in your inside e bits or did it deserve to fail let me know and check back next time for another adventure in tech