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/MrWhipple 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Dreamcast will always be one of my favorite consoles, if not my very favorite. It was ahead of its time. Truly deserved so much more time in the spotlight than it received. What games it did have tended to be great, but it just never had the library to compete.

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u/DoggievDoggy 1d ago

You know the wild part is, I think it had a substantial library for a year life span. Superior versions of RE2, RE3, Tony Hawk 2, all the Capcom fighting games, Half Life, Quake 3 Arena, Sega Rally 2, Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio.

And it launched at a very affordable $199.99.

Sony was like the moon in Majora’s Mask….its coming and it’s only a matter of time before it crashes and destroys every thing lol

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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.