[QUOTE="famicommander"]1. SEGA didn't have consumer trust because of failures like SEGA CD, Game Gear, SEGA 32X, Saturn, Nomad, etc 2. SEGA couldn't secure major third party support, especially from companies like EA and Square 3. SEGA didn't have enough money to turn the tide when things started going south, couldn't compete with Sony's hype for PS2 4. Dreamcast used GD-ROM, a variant of CD-ROM, instead of DVD. This had three major negative effects: no movie playback like PS2 and Xbox had, much smaller storage capacity, and extremely easy piracy. 5. The Dreamcast was the least powerful system of the generation and it launched at a time when N64 and PS1 were at their heights (1998-1999), leading to a lot of confusion about who the system was competing with. 6. Lack of a second analog stick and lower system power made it impractical to stay alive by getting downscaled PS2 portsaccesdenied

this was really nicely put, good job. I just want to add the abysmal controller and lackluster idea of the pocket thing they had I forgot the actual name sorry.

[QUOTE="Spinnerweb"]Bah. In my opinion the SNES hasn't aged well at all; the Genesis has. The SNES was overloaded with platformers and side-scrollers, not much else. Guess I'm just a Sega fanboy :Paccesdenied

well at least you acknowledge it. I think the genesis was a horrible system worse graphics they didnt even compar to the snes. I still play super mario. i never did like sonic.

I have to ask why people think the SNES OR the Genesis have aged poorly?

They were great systems for 2D games. Yeah, the 3D games like Star Fox, Virtua Racing, and Wolfenstein 3-D have aged poorly, but they're few and far in-between. The 2D games are fan-freaking-tastic. I mean come on, you have gems like the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Zelda: Link to the Past, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage series, Mega Man X, and so on and so on. If you want poorly aged 2D games, you have to go further back like the NES (yet I still love it) and the Atari 2600.

Emerald_Warrior

[QUOTE="NiKva"]The discs are CD-R with no security. You can download an ISO and burn it onto a disc without playing (which is illegal). Piracy killed the Dreamcast.Emerald_Warrior

It's not quite that easy, but pretty close. You do have to have a boot disc.

[QUOTE="Containmomentum"][QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

It is, but that's what the cord holder built into the top-back of the controller is for.

Darkman2007

[QUOTE="Containmomentum"][QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

There are exceptions like Samurai Shodown and the first Mortal Kombat. But for the most part, SNES, BY FAR, had the better multiplatform games. Cleaner, brighter graphics, and better sound the majority of the time.

Emerald_Warrior

I'm sure there's some out there, but for the most part no. SNES was the system to have that generation if you wanted the best multiplatform games. It's pretty obvious on games like Mortal Kombat II & 3, Maximum Carnage, and Cool Spot.