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"Free Dreamcast"? Holy shit, what a prescient blurb. Give it another year and Sega couldn't GIVE the things away!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAwait, that's actually really sad...

The Dreamcast sold very well when it was being liquidated, establishing a cult-following that lasted a very long time. There just wasn't enough room in the industry after Microsoft came in.

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"Free Dreamcast"? Holy shit, what a prescient blurb. Give it another year and Sega couldn't GIVE the things away!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAwait, that's actually really sad...

I believe that was their off for their seganet isp subscription service. You basically subscribed to like a two year contract and got the system free. I always somehow blamed Sony for the death of the Dreamcast. But I think there were a lot of reasons. One big one is games started showing up on the Internet and piracy started becoming rampant as it turned out the GD ROM wasn't as secure as they thought. Coupled with dirt cheap CD'rs, it kind of killed new software sales I've read.

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I believe that was their off for their seganet isp subscription service. You basically subscribed to like a two year contract and got the system free. I always somehow blamed Sony for the death of the Dreamcast. But I think there were a lot of reasons. One big one is games started showing up on the Internet and piracy started becoming rampant as it turned out the GD ROM wasn't as secure as they thought. Coupled with dirt cheap CD'rs, it kind of killed new software sales I've read.

Piracy helped finish the job, but the PS2's dominance was a forgone conclusion because it was a DVD player and it was supported by Squaresoft. It could have had no good games and people would still have felt safe buying it because it was the same price as other DVD players, which were still new and expensive. That and the promise of Squaresoft made the Dreamcast easy to pass up.

I don't know exactly why Sega waited an entire year to ship the Dreamcast in the US, though. Virtua Fighter 3 would have sold consoles all on its own.

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The Dreamcast sold very well when it was being liquidated, establishing a cult-following that lasted a very long time. There just wasn't enough room in the industry after Microsoft came in.

I believe that was their off for their seganet isp subscription service. You basically subscribed to like a two year contract and got the system free. I always somehow blamed Sony for the death of the Dreamcast. But I think there were a lot of reasons. One big one is games started showing up on the Internet and piracy started becoming rampant as it turned out the GD ROM wasn't as secure as they thought. Coupled with dirt cheap CD'rs, it kind of killed new software sales I've read.

Way to kill my snarky joke, you seriousness-slingin' spoilsports.

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