GDXL 4th Biggest News Story of 2006: Xbox 360 is NOT Dreamcast! Options

[Xbox-Scene]

GDXL 4th Biggest News Story of 2006: Xbox 360 is NOT Dreamcast! Posted by XanTium | December 27 00:04 EST

From gamedailyxl.com: [QUOTE] When Xbox 360 hit store shelves, some websites made very interesting comparisons between Microsoft's new consoles and Sega's doomed Dreamcast system. 2006 was the year the comparisons stopped at "they have round logos" as Xbox 360 proves it has more than enough to compete with the new next-gen competition from Sony and Nintendo. While Dreamcast struggled to gain a foothold once PlayStation 2 hit the market, the momentum is with Xbox 360. Ten million consoles projected to sell by the end of 2006 with over four million Xbox Live members as of October, and ten million members projected by summer 2007. This coupled with the fact that Sony and Nintendo seem downright clueless about an online strategy shows Xbox 360 is positioned as the strongest player this holiday. [/QUOTE] Full Story: gamedailyxl.com

[TheIrishLad]

Of course it is going to be the strongest player this holiday season...It has been out for a year! Doesn't take a genious to make a statement like that.

[ILLusions0fGrander]

XBL for the win.

in my opinion, its what seperates it from the other consoles and puts it in my top position.

[what9612]

of course they are gonna sell alot of these. they only last what..... 6 months? almost everyone i kno has problems. im on my 2nd but i still love it

[Mega_mil]

Of course it is going to be the strongest player this holiday season...It has been out for a year! Doesn't take a genious to make a statement like that.

Not really. Dreamcast was out before the PS2 but we all know what happened to that battle...lol

Edit - When in the hell did my gamercard get the gay Xmas lights....lol

This post has been edited by Mega_mil: Dec 27 2006, 06:28 AM

[0794]

XBL for the win.

in my opinion, its what seperates it from the other consoles and puts it in my top position.

Absolutely, XBL is amazing - excellent interface and great depth of content on XBL Marketplace, XBL gaming is simple and works well. I played with a PS3 for a good while and Sony really shouldn't have even turned on their marketplace yet...it is quite embarassing...they have a lot of catching up to do...

[Neoistheone2000]

Warning i am a Dreamcast fan!!!

when the xbox came out i said hmm the controller is similar to my dreamcast controller
then the controller s came out and that was thrown out the window

then MR. Peter More has the same damn job he had at sega right now!!!

but if your gonna compare them just because they both have a circular symbol then thats just stupid...




oh and a side note did ya know that in japan they release at least 2-3 games a year for the dreamcast to this day!!!

This post has been edited by Neoistheone2000: Dec 27 2006, 10:26 AM

[luther349]

the dreamcast owned anything and everything. but the dc was do or die for sega. and unfortanly they died. the dc had so many good games but the problem was not enough. it failed in the usa but was insanly good in japan yes still games being made in japan this day. sega didnt have enough money to fail in the usa and well they whent broke. will sega ever come back in the usa as a console maker probly not they screwed there custmers twice first with saturn and then dc unfortanly no us custmer will trust sega again. i personaly loved the dc it was as powerfull as a friggen xbox thinks to there power vr system. it was the first console to support homebrew and the first console to have online play.

i still have my dc. even thow the cances of another dreamcast are almost 0 uf there was one i would own it sega always did good with cutting edge consoles. fuck hd the dreamcast 2 will have a holo projecter built in lol.

[BasicAir]

oh and a side note did ya know that in japan they release at least 2-3 games a year for the dreamcast to this day!!!

Nope. It's been almost 2 years since there's been a new Dreamcast release in Japan.

I think there's some type of weird shooter game sequel coming out on the Dreamcast soon, though, from what I heard recently. I could be wrong.

But anyway, the Dreamcast has nothin' on the Sega Saturn and the Atari Jaguar --- The Saturn still had games made for it in Japan a few years ago, and the Atari Jaguar still has games made to this day on cartridges by a studio called Songbird.

[EverestX]

will sega ever come back in the usa as a console maker probably not they screwed there customers twice first with Saturn and then dc uncertainly no us customer will trust sega again.

i personally loved the dc it was as powerful as a friggen xbox thinks to there power vr system. it was the first console to support homebrew and the first console to have online play.

sega always did good with cutting edge consoles.

In all Honesty, Sega Screwed everyone several times. Sega Cd, 32x, Saturn, Dreamcast...And not to forget the shortly lived Nomad, and CDX. Don't get me wrong, My heart is with Sega, Shit-tastic marketing or not. All the Add-on's screwed a lot of customers due to marketing confusion, then right after everyone finally had a 32 and sega cd (well the few that could afford them both) Sega launched the Saturn. The rear cart slot had a lot of people thinking it was backwards compatible, It wasn't, so more customers were done with Sega.
Then 9/9/99 Sega Dropped the last bomb shell, with the Death of Segata Sanshiro, Sega's marketing pretty much failed the world over, minus Japan.

Um, as for your comment the DC was not the first to Offer online play (Unless you meant out of the box) Saturn Had Netlink, and a system link cable, although hardly used, also, Saturn had/has a decent amount of homebrew.

As for the 360 being the next Dreamcast it really rubs me the wrong way. These people aren't taking into consideration that the Katana.. err... Dreamcast was launched by a company that was financially pulling at straws to stay afloat. Microsoft on the other hand could shit a half a million a day for a good deal of time before getting remotely close to broke. And even in the event if they drop a new OS or Office product, and stick it on every Dell computer that is enough money to keep their head out of the water.

[epsilon72]

They are right about about the online strategy thing - nintendo has only just barely discovered the existance of the internet, and sony has a lot of downtime as well as the fact that the games aren't integrated with the XMB online wise. LIVE rocks, except for the fact that it's infested with whining little kids

[sabbath_dude]

I still freqently play my Dreamcast! . There's just something about the games for it that keeps wanting me to play it. Its never been packed away and still sits next to my xbox and 360.

I've never played a PS3 but I can't imagine Sony or Nintendo coming up with anything even close to Live and marketplace. I just love how you can download and play new game demos for free without even leaving the sofa!. I wouldn't buy any future consoles unless they had something as good as Live for online gaming.

[throwingks]

How is this even news? Did anyone read PAGE 2 of the 1up article?

[Dirvance]

XBL ftw!!

I love my Dreamcast! and still play it of course! Me and my friends get together to have Soul Caliber and Marvel vs Capcom 2 tourneys! Ahh the good times...

Personally i would buy another Sega console if they made it. If the caliber of games were anything close to Dreamcast's sign me up!


As far as the online part, Xbox made itself a major player mostly off of that. They showed everyone else how console online gaming should be done and for that everyone will always be playing catch-up. They may not have been the first but they are the best. Kudos Microsoft....

[juan_2006]

I would of never guessed....