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Re:The Dreamcast Legacy by gogopuppygogo on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:49PM (#29657436)
Lack of a DVD drive killed the Dreamcast. People saw much more value in a PS2.

I had a Dreamcast at launch and still love the games that came out on it. If it had a new revision with a DVD player in it announced at the same PS2 price point to compete with the PS2 and XBOX then Sega might still be in the console business.

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Re:The Dreamcast Legacy by davewashere on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:21AM (#29663336)
It really can't be overstated how important the DVD drive was for the PS2's success. When the first Fast and the Furious movie came out it almost seemed realistic that a criminal gang would risk their lives while attempting to steal DVD players from a truck. That movie's premiere was 8 months after the PS2 was released in the US. A DVD player AND a next gen video game console for $299 was an incredible deal in 2000.
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