I loved the DC. So many fun games, and specialty items you plug directly into the controller. My question, how the hell did dreamcast completely disappear?

Complete lack of marketing.

It went really well in Asia, whilst it was sold in other markets, it was more for the hardcore fans and not really the mainstream gamer.

As a matter of fact, the Dreamcast was still widely used up until April of this year, when despite a petition, Sega closed the Phantasy Star online game server.

I wouldn't call it a failure, its just that they never progressed into another generation as it just wasn't feasible.

I miss my Dreamcast terribly - It's the only place Sonic ever went successfully next-gen.

And besides that, Jet Set Radio anyone?

Dreamcast gave me Shenmue :D Still a brilliant game, that will sadly never end :(

Jet Set Radio rocked amazingly as well :thumbsup:

JSR is still the funkiest game I've ever played. Brilliant.

The Dreamcast was doomed before it began, some real mistakes were the 32X, the Saturn being difficult to code for (and IIRC Sega holding back the best dev tools for themselves, so that first-party games always looked the best), and crap marketing campaigns throughout.

Sony was the nail, but Sega built the coffin.

The ports on GameCube were fun, though not exactly what I'd call successful.
And from my knowledge they were the DC games with extra GBA functionality.

Yeah, but the games started on the DC, subsequent Sonic games have been pretty bad, though the recent Secret Rings on Wii was pretty good.

ill always remember and love the dreamcast. i still have mine and play it more then my wii

Ah, I didn't mean financially successful :)

Was that the Chao functionality that previously went hand in hand with the DC memory units?

Yeah the Chao stuff used the GBA in the Cube versions, not sure exactly how it worked, might have connected with the GBA Sonic game?

I bought a Dreamcast from Gametraders when over in Perth for $100. Came with two light guns, two controllers and a VMU. I also bought Soul Calibur and House of the Dead 2 while I was at it. Unfortunately HOTD2 keeps fucking up. Not long into it it stops loading enemies, textures and soon enough you're basically walking around in emptiness shooting invisible enemies.

Oh well.

imho Dreamcast>PS2. If you don't believe that then you don't have a good taste in games. the dc had the best games ever. only until YEARS later did xbox, ps2 and gc get ahold of those games, so they are still dc games in my eyes.

The dreamcast was the first sega console I owned .. so every time a new game was announced I would drool over the graphics and gameplay to be had. Arcade perfect ports, original titles, best fighting games ever.. I think the main reason why it failed was because people who had bought previous sega consoles knew the lackluster games support sega had provided for them and didn't want to risk it again.

If you had Sonic Advance you didn't have to load the data on and could save.
Otherwise it just loaded a temporary program onto the GBA.
Completely pointless, but cool.

i think one of the biggest contributors to the dreamcast's failure was sony's advertising strategies, which was to over-saturate us with so much playstation advertising, that everything else (not just dreamcast) would get lost in the sea of 'spam'station