G4 "Icons: Sega Dreamcast"

jepok22 · Post by **jepok22** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:00 am

here in the philippines dreamcast is platform that has yet to bloom, then PS2 arrived it was the significant role to DC's death in hardware business, who knows if the dreamcast did have a DVD drive would it survive?

for me dreamcast will live on ! ! !

Cid Highwind · Post by **Cid Highwind** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:17 am

Even if the DC would have had Blue Ray support it wouldn't have helped because no one knew of the DC in The Netherlands

But let's not get to the discussion why PS2 is still alive and DC is not.

Thanks for uploading this video, I'm going to watch it as soon as I finished downloading it.

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:27 pm

Did anyone else notice when they were talking about the PS2 having a DVD drive, that when they showed the PS2 with a "DVD" in the drive, it was actually a GD-ROM?

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:29 pm

how do you say that? I didnt notice anything regarding a gd-rom in there.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:38 pm

Cid Highwind wrote:Even if the DC would have had Blue Ray support it wouldn't have helped because no one knew of the DC [...]

...I mean they did not show any footage of the games in the TV commercials - given the fact that there were any at all that is - and in their print advertisements they've put pictures of a lesser size than that of post stamps.
Judging from the screenshots in video game magazines' reviews it wasn't possible to see a difference between a N64/PS1 or a DC game - even if you tried because you saw the game running before somewhere.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:42 pm

Heh, it's all about Sega's failures . I was surprised that they didn't mentioned EA.

LyingWake wrote:Did anyone else notice when they were talking about the PS2 having a DVD drive, that when they showed the PS2 with a "DVD" in the drive, it was actually a GD-ROM?

Yup, it's upside down so I noticed.

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:44 pm

lol, it's true.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:52 pm

ETR wrote:That's like saying Nirvana had one a few good songs, but will just be remembered as a band.

who the hell is nirvana?

TyBO · Post by **TyBO** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:59 pm

ETR wrote:Horrible.

No mention of homebrew, piracy, the cool perephirals, or anything other than

OMG THE DREAMCAST DIDN'T HAVE A DVD DRIVE SO THE PS2 KILLED IT, WE'RE JOURNALISTS, LOLZ.

That's like saying Nirvana had one a few good songs, but will just be remembered as a band.

First of all, the homebrew community is a hell of a lot smaller than you might think. Certainly not big enough to get covered on a Dreamcast documentary. I hate to say it but it's true.

Second, the DVD was a huge selling point for the PS2 and there's no debating that. At the time, the public more or less knew the DVD player would take over the VHS market, but everyone was hesitant to buy one since the lower end DVD players were costing $299 minimum at that time. Then, when people heard the PS2 could play DVDs along with it's games, everyone jumped ship.

Follow-up to incredibly successful console + cheap DVD player = $$$

I remember all of my friend wanted PS2 just because it had the DVD drive.

Umm... anyway.

Good documentary. I almost forgot how successful Dreamcast was at launch. *sigh* those were the days...

ace · Post by **ace** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:52 pm

Covar wrote:
ETR wrote:That's like saying Nirvana had one a few good songs, but will just be remembered as a band.
who the hell is nirvana?

some band

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:04 pm

Crazy Caboose wrote:lol, it's true.

No no, thats the bar code Sony copied from Nintendo

ETR · Post by **ETR** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:10 am

First of all, the homebrew community is a hell of a lot smaller than you might think. Certainly not big enough to get covered on a Dreamcast documentary. I hate to say it but it's true. Sad

Mind you though, they made a big mention of how EASY coding for the DC was...

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:17 am

But they haven't really said much about the commecial games; just some mentions, so of course they didn't mention homebrew (or B!Cast)

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:23 am

Prophet][ wrote:
Skynet wrote:Good to watch. We don't get anything like that here.
Accually the channel "TechTV" has been on Foxtel digital for over a year now and has this show on it.

Quiet you! I have no need for foxtel digital!

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:10 pm

ETR wrote:
First of all, the homebrew community is a hell of a lot smaller than you might think. Certainly not big enough to get covered on a Dreamcast documentary. I hate to say it but it's true. Sad

Mind you though, they made a big mention of how EASY coding for the DC was...

compared with the SATURN - or the PS2

ace wrote:
Covar wrote:
ETR wrote:That's like saying Nirvana had one a few good songs, but will just be remembered as a band.
who the hell is nirvana?
some band

...that changed my life

Gameholic · Post by **Gameholic** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:15 am

Covar wrote:
ETR wrote:That's like saying Nirvana had one a few good songs, but will just be remembered as a band.
who the hell is nirvana?

Don't you know Nirvana? lol.. how old are you then?

I enjoyed the G4 movie, altough it made me a little pissed

I got remembered again that its totally unfair the DC failed

TyBO · Post by **TyBO** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:37 am

The Nirvana thing was a joke, bud.

Post by **Quzar** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:52 pm

just got to download and rewatch. I think that the most important thing this said was about how sega didn't decide to kill the dreamcast, but that it was that they had as many systems made and still in warehouses as there were sold, so they simply stopped manufacturing.

Darksaviour69 · Post by **Darksaviour69** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:41 pm

also the did sell licences to other manufacture to use dc technology, like to PACE (they make the sky boxes) there were plans to make sky box that could play dc games....

Sultan of Saturn · Post by **Sultan of Saturn** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:22 pm

After watching the documentary, I was less than impressed. I don't think they covered enough of the games. They simply showed 1st gen games + Shenmue + 2 seconds of PSO. There were a lot more great games than just that. What they failed to mention was that even after Sega pulled the plug on hardware, the software still keeps coming out. How about a little Ikaruga talk? How about the other great shooters? O well...such is life. I am glad that they had the report, but it would have been nice had they included life after the plug-pulling, 2nd-gen dreamcast games, import games, emulation, etc.