Aren't you glad the DC died?

[Orta]

Originally posted by Nash
the dreamcast is still alive. it's just called the xbox now.

The DC is turning in its grave from those words. The XBOX is utter crap compared to the DC.

[Kidnemo]

Originally posted by Nash
the dreamcast is still alive. it's just called the xbox now.

Dreamcast > xbox

[Jeremy]

I wish the DC was still around, as the system's potential was never fully reached in anything. The graphics in the some of the games still look fantastic, despite the many advances made with graphics over the past couple of years. The system was years ahead of it's time, and I would love to still be able to buy new games for it. But I've viewed the Xbox as the DC's spiritual incaration due to it having tons of sequels to DC games that I loved, and for the innovations it brought to the table.

[Mr_Furious]

Originally posted by Orta
By now the Dreamcast's successor would have been out. Orta would probably have been a launch title...

And it still would have been inferior hardware. Sega's never been known for powerful home consoles. They've always been the underdog.

[NeoZeedeater]

Online gaming on the Dreamcast was far too laggy to be playable most of the time. PSO was the only game for me that wasn't a jumbled mess to play.

Having to own several consoles does suck but like every generation, I have to own at least three consoles to play all the games I want, with or without Sega.

VGA is very nice though. Every console should have VGA support.

Mr Furious, most Sega consoles were at the height of console technology at their launches.

[Mr_Furious]

Originally posted by Orta
The DC is turning in its grave from those words. The XBOX is utter crap compared to the DC.

If you are talking sheer horsepower, you are clearly wrong but if you are talking massive software quality then I agree (although Xbox is slowly catching up).

[Despair]

Originally posted by Nash
the dreamcast is still alive. it's just called the xbox now.

Well, in sense of that both have pretty bad controllers

[RoleTroll]

The DC was one of the best, if not the best, designed console ever. I think Sega did the right thing, though it would have been even better to have stopped after (or before) the Saturn. I think the Xbox design (PC parts) is the best of the current consoles, assuming the successors are backwards compatible.

I'm not glad the DC died, but I'd like to see Sega put its games on one console, or all games cross-platform, instead of one title here and one there.

[Rumpy]

To paraphrase: There is no power greater than DC.

Dreamcast might be my favorite system to date. I bought more games for it in 2 years (and kept) than any system I have ever owned. Remember...November of 2000 (I think?). Around the time that Code Veronica came out we were getting one awesome game after another. Shit that was great. I'd really like to see how far the DC could have been pusbed...look at the progress the PSX did in it's lifespan.

[Cheebs]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Mr Furious, most Sega consoles were at the height of console technology at their launches.

Yup. At launch time:

Master System > NES
Genesis > TG-16
Saturn > 3D0
DC > N64

*the ">" is measuring hardware power only*