I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

  • H1jAcK@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The Dreamcast failed because it released on 9/9/99, then 11 days later, the PS2 was revealed at the Tokyo Game Show. The PS2 looked like a better system on paper, so no one bought a Dreamcast.

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        10 months ago

        Was gonna say, knew quite a few people with a DreamCast, was surprised they kinda gave up on it

        (EDIT: then again, literally everyone had a PS2…)

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      10 months ago

      Yeah that was a huge part of it too. I’m not saying this was the only part. Just a big contributing factor.