Dreamcast failed because Sega screwed developers big time with the Saturn. Sega bailed out early on the saturn to make the dreamcast. EA stopped making games for them because of this and it was the beginning of the end for Sega.
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During the 1980's EA were never really interested in console games - they dismissed the consoles as a passing fad. This mentality was still inforce until they realised the Megadrive/Genesis was becoming a giant sucess in USAEurope . When EA finally decided to enter the console game business, didn't they release cartridges/games for Genesis that were not officially endorsed by SEGA. Hence the whole Sega & EA relationship seed was soured many years before the DC released. EA's Sega & Nintendo 32/64bit games were mostly poorly conceived & badly developed licenced trash. Its only the last 4/5 years have EA improved their games - yet many still feel like mass market trash mind.EA bought up all the official licences to destroy competition NFL & NHL - tried same with XBOX 1 (amped etc.),
Being a sucessor to a critically sucessful piece of hardware does not guarantee it being superior to others in the market - the release of the N64 proved this.
Fighters Megamix was good back in its day & I still own it, but IMO it ain't aged well, just like the early Tekken games (1&2) and DOA1all look & play terrible now.
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