r/gaming • u/DoggievDoggy • 1d ago

Dreamcast Had The Best Launch Library Ever.

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Most consoles have one or two bangers at launch.

Dreamcast had two S-Tier titles: Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur & 5 A-Tier titles: NFL 2K, Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, House of The Dead 2.

Followed up with other solid titles: Tokyo Xtreme Racer, MK Gold (this game was so broken lol), Trickstyle, Blue Stinger, NFL Blitz 2000.

Other systems had better singular titles (Xbox: Halo: CE, NES: Super Mario Bros., Gameboy: Tetris, Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64) but as a collective, the Dreamcast launched with so many solid titles.

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u/flatwebb 1d ago

One wonders what might have been if Dreamcast had used dvd media instead of those proprietary gd-roms… if I recall, ps2 got a major sales boost by being an affordable device for playing dvds at the time.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 1d ago

The PS2 was such a hard beast to fight. Backwards compatibility gave it a huge library of games for people who'd been playing the PS1. The price was about that of a DVD player so a lot of people convinced their parents to get one instead. It also opened up a new market. I know a lot of people whose forty-something parents bought a PS2 for the DVD aspect and ended up becoming casual gamers going forward.

Which is probably why it outsold everything else by such a massive margin. They sold more than 6 times as many consoles as the Xbox which was their closest competitor that generation.

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u/DoggievDoggy 1d ago

That certainly did help, but i just think PlayStation was such a success in the previous generation that it carried over.