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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] jordanlund 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It was actually the opposite problem... they sold plenty of hardware. But they lost money on every sale and didn't make it back on software purchases as was the plan.

In fact, the Dreamcast had sold more than the Xbox and Gamecube combined for the first several years of their lifespan.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was also the playstation 2 releasing about 6 months after the dreamcast, with dvd capabilities, when dvd players were expensive as fuck. People were using them as a DVD player. Basically the same reason the playstation 3 sold decently at all in it's first years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've heard stories of people buying or being encouraged to buy a PS1 because it also played CDs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of that. Audio cd's have been around for a while by then. And cd players weren't expensive. But I could be wrong. I was not really in to consoles at that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I wasn't around then but i think the stories I heard was "kid wants his own cd player and gaming console so he buys a PS1"