The Dreamcast was truly a special system at the time it released. I remember seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time and being amazed at how detailed it looked. It wasn't mind blowing like seeing Super Mario 64 for the first time, but it was awesome to see 3D graphics improving so fast.
Those were good times case, there were many times I wished Sega has put Sony out of business. Though I've been with Sony since the launch of the PS1, one can only imagine what mighy have happened if they had been more successful
It's incredibly weird to me that you get people see the Dreamcast as a predecessor to the Xbox instead of the Xbox being a spiritual successor to the Dreamcast
@@MichaelM28 Original Xbox including other major consoles like PS3 were sold at huge loss.companies make money from software. Sega had no funding to support such a business model so they had to jump out of hardware business
I know right and that's crazy cause i just also bought a dreamcast bundle that comes with all cords, 2 controllers (one which is clear blue then he normal white one) 8 games and 3 vmu's (one which is clear blue and another which is clear green then the normal white one) for $150 + $10 shipping. I can't wait for it to arrive 😁👍👍
DoooooD! get you a BUNCH of CD-Rs! make a boot disc. and the rest fill up with games, my buddy pirated the entire library... and there are sooo many good games!
The Dreamcast was a little too ahead of it's time. It was super powerful in 1998, but by 2001...that's another story. GD Roms had massive space...in 1998. Even on the PS1 most games didn't use the right analog stick so the Dreamcast not having dual analog sticks wasn't an issue...in 1998.
It also had every connection you wanted. RF, composite, s video, VGA, and SCART. It could connect to any TV or monitor you wanted. That's something it has over every other 6th gen console. It was the only one to support VGA until the Xbox 360 released
In 2001 it was still incredibly powerful, since it was still more powerful in many important ways than the PS2, which released over a year later than the DC's 9/9/99 release. Dual analogs still isn't an issue. It never was for consoles that never even had 1 analog like SNES, genesis, N64, etc. Dual analog made consoles obsolete in many ways. It became harder and harder to justify owning a console over just getting a PC and plugging in your favorite controller, or using MNK
@@tynao2029 I've been working with electronics since 1996, you're kidding me. GTA 3 got cancelled on Dreamcast in 2001 because it simply couldn't run on that hardware, Max Payne 1 also getting cancelled. By 2001/2002, the DC was quite weak and kids bullied me at school for sticking with my Dreamcast and its games, while everyone else was playing Halo. It was even a common joke my peers made was the Dreamcast being a "better looking PS1". I'm one of the biggest Dreamcast fans, but in retrospect it wasn't that powerful when it came out. It was essentially an overpowered PC from 1994/1995 which I have built such machines. Running on late DOS era parts (excluding the gpu), I got Quake 3 running exactly like the DC version, and games like Half-Life 1 and Kiss Psycho Circus lagged very similarly to the DC version, having to play at low graphical settings comparable to their DC version as well. The problem is that the DC had only 16mb of ram (only double the N64's 8mb with the expansion pak), while the DC really should have had 32mb, and perhaps a hard drive bay for ambitious games. Every low-end PC in 1998/early 1999 that were $400 came with 32mb of ram, which is also what the PS2 came out with at launch. I think late 1997, the DC should have came out with the specs it had, blowing the PS1 and N64 out of the water, and having a DC 2 by 2002. Dreamcast: 16mb ram 8mb vram 200mhz processor CD and GD rom PS2: 32mb ram 4mb vram (could be shared with main ram to outperform Dreamcast's vram) 300mhz processor CD and DVD rom
I loved this system so much. I bought the Japanese version before the American release on 9.9.99 and I was so happy to be a diehard SEGA fan, then it died. But what memories. TO this day I am really good at Soul Calibur because of it.
Man I remember when this came out. I begged mom and dad to get it for me. My birthday was right around the corner and my mom asked me what I wanted. Well needless to say I got it. Felt like a hotshot carrying it out of Kmart. I loved it.
The reason Xbox couldn't play Dreamcast games is because Microsoft wanted to keep the manufacturing costs down by using off the shelf PC parts. The 700MHz Pentium 3 wasn't powerful enough to do it through emulation, and having a second CPU would have significantly raised the cost of an already expensive system that was being sold at a loss.
Loving the history content. As much as I love games, I never really delved too much into the history of gaming, gaming culture, and pretty much all the other stuff outside of games.
I always wondered why even that dude "Dreamcastguy" produces zero content about the Dreamcast it was such a monumental system and is unfortunately incredibly overlooked, Thanks for doing this!
In the xbox documentary they mention that they tried to buy Nintendo and they laughed at them. I wonder if MS tried to buy Sega, and what the response was.
9-9-99 was the release date for the Dreamcast here in the States and I remember it like it were yesterday. I ended up getting it for my Birthday in October of that year. I loved it and wish it would have lasted longer.
I still remember picking mine up the day it came out. I just got out of detention and dad picked me up to take me to EB Games. I still have all the disc's for the demos they sent out with the monthly magazine subscription
That VMU needs to make a comeback with more features to help kids enjoy getting outdoors like the pokewalker did, and bringing it back to the xbox would be fitting.
@@VEN0M415 Agreed!! Then there's the mods like replacing the power supply to be safer and use less wattage, replacing the cd drive with a sd card slot, better cooling, HDMI out, and etc..
The Dreamcast is such an underrated console. I know it flopped hard after the PS2 came out, which is understandable, but I love Sonic adventure and Skies of Arcadia.
As my icon shows, I LOVE the Dreamcast. Love seeing people talk about it again! I'm also curious what that timeline would've looked like with SEGA and Microsoft sort of merging back with the DC was axed. Fun stuff to think about!
Awesome show, and I hope you continue to do pieces on the Dreamcast! One of my favorite consoles ever and the first one I waited in line at to purchase myself. 👌
The Windows CE and Direct X teams were completely different. Just watch the Power On Story of Xbox for a better explanation. The Xbox was made to compete with Sony for having a PC in the living room, had nothing to do with Sega.
I loved my Dreamcast so many amazing games Pls keep these Dreamcast videos coming I will defo be looking forward to them and it will take me back to a happier time
That's one of the reasons I prefer Xbox, because I love the Dreamcast. It's the little system that almost could lol. I still think of Xbox as the successor of the Dreamcast. It was just "thinking" of what it wanted to eventually become lol.
I had the Dreamcast and it was way ahead of its time. Back then I was a broke college kid and just burned all the Dreamcast games I could find on direct connect. I also bought the Xbox immediately cause I knew it was the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.
Before unboxing Sega Dreamcast i knew it what i get! I still remember that big day it was sunny ☀️ afternoon..😏 It was shocking at that time seeing games like Code Veronica, Shenmue, Virtual Striker2 v.99, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Virtual Tennis2, Virtual On, Sega Rally2, Ready to Rumble and so many other games at 60Hetz..it was extreme fast hardware, next generation experience not BS like nowadays..
It was brief but it was special. This console truly felt like something froma nother age, and playing console games online was really exciting. Countless nights of Speed Devils Online Racing. Definitely the single best console i've owned, if i count the experience and not the total time played.
Just bought me a Dreamcast Sports Edition that's fully modded and I'm loving it. I'll never get tired of coming back to this console as it gave me so many good memories. While PS2 is still my favorite console of all time. The Dreamcast will forever be the best console in gaming history!!!
I have been saying this for years...The Xbox 360 felt like the Dreamcast to me. Like the graphics jump gave me the same feeling or taking gaming to the next level
I loved my DC, and got a ton of great games from Circuit City and Target bargin bins back in the early 2000's. Back around 2013 I got another Sega Dreamcast, Sega Sports black console on ebay but I eventually sold it all. I don't really regret it either. I don't want to go back. I made the upgrade to Xbox and not looking back.
The question this brings to mind for me is: if backwards compatibility with 360 and original Xbox discs is just the Series X or Xbox One identifying the game and then downloading an updated version... could the same method allow the Series X to play Dreamcast discs?
if they made an emulator for it, yes. but i think sega would rather just re-release their games, rather than let people emulate them on Xbox. besides, you can already emulate Dreamcast games on Xbox with retroarch
I always see Dreamcast especially with the Xbox Duke controller that was modeled after it like the face buttons and triggers on the back of the controller and memory card slot.
Kevin! Greta video! For being such a controller fan like me I thought you would have mentioned the controller similarities. While not identical, the triggers and two slots for memory card/vmu was all too similar!
Own 23 consoles and Dreamcast being in my top 5 I love the hell out of that console it’s one I tend to collect quite a bit for considering my Saturn is kinda hard to manage with the prices of games for that one.
Never had a Dreamcast but I had a cousin that had one and I loved playing Sonic Adventure on it. Such an underrated system that needs more love. Same with the OG Xbox, I loved mine when I was younger and it was a beast. Without it I would’ve never became such a massive Halo fan lol.
If we’re going to see more content about Sega to Xbox, I believe it’s fitting there should be a video about game franchises that started on Saturn/Dreamcast and continued on Xbox and how the Xbox games compared to their predecessors on Saturn/Dreamcast.
I still have my original Dreamcast from Childhood. It's had a bit of work done from wear and tear over... 22 years? Wew, didn't realize it's been that long. It's one of the rare cases where SD era 3D games still looked good.
Unless you meant 5th gen games but the dreamcast wasn't a 5th gen console. That would go to the Sega Saturn. The dreamcast was 6th gen just like the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox
@@crestofhonor2349 The Wii was SD only because Nintendo is ever obstinant. Internally it was capable of 720p for most games, it just didn't have the supporting circuitry for HDMI output. The Dreamcast was closer to a 5.5th gen, it jumped the gun on the generation switch using arcade hardware developed in '97 for the Naomi (As usual Wikipedia gets it wrong, SH-4 was built for Sega Naomi first, the Dreamcast was built based on the Naomi afterwards), when both Sony and (uncharacteristically) Nintendo were using up to date hardware at release for the Gamecube and PS2.
7:35 As a casual historian I can make some educated guesses. 1: As you postulated, Microsoft's initial standing in Japan would've been far stronger. Japan at the time was already leery of Microsoft (this is why Touhou still had MSX releases post y2k), and the Xbox immediately replacing the Dreamcast reinforced that distrust. A Dreamcast-compatible release would've instead improved Microsoft's reputation in Japan. 2: We wouldn't have gotten the iconic "Duke" controller, not even a prototype that looked much like it. Sega wanted 100% backwards compatibility and Microsoft wanted their own VMU-like memory card anyways. Odds are the controller we would've gotten would have VMU-compatible sockets with extra pins for USB and I2S interfaces to support even larger memory cards but wouldn't look like the Duke OR the S just as an issue of artistic design. In this timelime we'd never have gotten a lot of cult classics, Blinx the Cat, Chromehounds, and Phantom Dust existed in part to help bridge the sizable gap between Microsoft and the Japanese market that wouldn't exist in this timeline. 3: Assuming Microsoft expanded their support to JP developers releasing on the OG (including relenting on censorship), the Xbox 360 or whatever that timeline's equiavalent would be, wouldn't have been the laughing stock of the Japanese console market. Sony's early struggles with the PS3 become much worse. It also wouldn't have looked much like the Xbox 360 we got. The Xbox 360 was designed to be the exact opposite of the OG because of the mockery it got as a big black brick with an oval for a game pad, neither would likely still be the case in our new timeline.
Microsoft came close to buying Sega several times and I think now would be a great time to finally do it. Buy Sega and their IP catalogue, and have the Xbox marketed as a Sega machine in Japan.
The Xbox would have existed as it was created as a response to a threat MS saw to desktop Windows from Sonys PS2. Sega licensed Windows CE and Direct X, interestingly the Xbox used the Windows NT/2000 Kernal instead of CE The majority of Dreamcast games didn't use CE or Direct X though Really OG Xbox was the start of X86 PC desktop hardware in a box, Dreamcast shared a lot of underpinnings with the Naomi arcade system. The PowerVR GPU though was impressive for the time
been saying this for years love this video ! i always wished xbox bought sega tbh lol imagine sonic and all of segas great games being only for xbox that would of been dope fr
I was a Nintendo kid growing up but a friend let me borrow their Dreamcast and man was it ahead of its time. It made me like Sega but also made me excited for what Nintendo would have to offer in the future at the time.
what i think should happen these days is Microsoft let sega market xbox in japan. A complete rebranding to the Sega series x, Sega tower, or whatever they want to call it.
People who were and are fans of SEGA and it's hardware naturally moved to Xbox and can't explain why they love Xbox and SEGA maybe because the 2 goes hand to hand and the controller design ques of the Xbox controller comes from the Dreamcast. Did you know that Halo CE was originally a Dreamcast game?, but when the Dreamcast was pulled from the console market Bungie decided and MS agreed to put it on Xbox and the rest was history.
Halo CE was going to be multiplatform. It was going to release on the Dreamcast (abandoned early on), Xbox, PC/Mac and PS2. Microsoft just convinced them at the last second to make it exclusive... sort of. The PC and Mac releases still happened even if it was 2 years later.
Seamus said Dreamcast had no way of playing Xbox games. I’m just throwing this here because so many people eventually bring up how “Dreamcast was going to play Xbox games!” The answer is NO.
I love SEGA, I still have all consoles. I’m a big SEGA fan. The Dreamcast definitely is the best console ever due to the concept, games, style, and technology at that time. I love everything about Dreamcast lol
I never had a Dreamcast, but I do have a Genesis and a GameGear, and it made me sad when Sega got out of the hardware business. Every time a new console came out I wondered what Sega's entry to that generation would look like.
hooray for more Dreamcast videos! Always loved mine since 2000 and felt it could’ve had a much stronger life. Still, some great games and great graphics in its short time. Glad to fire it up every now and again.
Good Job, Kevin! The rumor of Sega of Japan, in article was that, the original Xbox was going to be backwards compatible, but not Sega of Japan red flag for many reasons, one of them being region free systems, for the Xbox and Microsoft.
I love these types of video reviews and speculations. Keep em coming. But yeah, I personally can say that I always knew there was a similarity between both companies and how it was second nature for me playing the Xbox when coming from the Dreamcast back in '01/'02. I actually go further back with my Saturn and it's 3D controller. Up to now, I still have trouble using the PlayStation controls and have stuck with Xbox. I've purchased my Xbox series X Halo infinite edition last year and it's great. 😎
I have my sister’s old (and pristine) Dreamcast but something is wrong with disc reader and it makes me sad because I cannot play the old games we did when we were kids 😢
O Dreamcast foi o Console de Sexta Geração, que muitos desenvolvedores se quer tentaram levar seus Gráficos ao Limite, salvo um pequeno número que quando não tinha preguiça, como a maioria, em pegar port feito pra PS1, e depois portar para o Dreamcast, conseguia mostrar o Poder do Console, um bom exemplo é Test Drive 24 Lamans, que mostra um Sistema Poderoso, infelizmente a conspiração venho e tirou o Dreamcast, para favorecer o Xbox Original, essa é a verdade, e por isso não considero o Xbox Original, como Sucessor, ta mais pra "Usurpador" mesmo, fora que as Arquiteturas é Totalmente Diferentes e Opostas!
i was look in the shed looking for my psp games,ps2 games and my ds games and found my dreamcast yesterday with sonic adventures 2 in it idk where the 1st one is so i went in side and plugged it in it turns on but it looks like the controller doesn’t work or the controller fuse got blown up and also it spins and then stops idk if that’s normal but i dont know if it plays games😢
The Dreamcast was truly a special system at the time it released. I remember seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time and being amazed at how detailed it looked. It wasn't mind blowing like seeing Super Mario 64 for the first time, but it was awesome to see 3D graphics improving so fast.
I still love Sonic Adventure to this day, truly special.
Those were good times case, there were many times I wished Sega has put Sony out of business. Though I've been with Sony since the launch of the PS1, one can only imagine what mighy have happened if they had been more successful
okay fanboi
They sell disk that have old Zelda games and remakes for Dreamcast and I'm sure they will remake super Mario as well eventually for Dreamcast
as a Dreamcast kid, nothing impresses me anymore. I had a PS2, gamecube, Xbox 360, PS3, etc and still none surpsased the joy and innovation of the DC
I’m a day one Xbox guy. And I must say that Dreamcast is my all time favorite system. Good times
im a sony pony but i do like the dreamcast
I've always been fascinated about the history of the Dreamcast and how it was a spiritual first Xbox in a lot of ways, so I really love this video.
I guess that means xbox will be killed off too 😅
@@MichaelM28 when you have a company as large as microsoft backing up your console its kinda hard to get killed off.
It's incredibly weird to me that you get people see the Dreamcast as a predecessor to the Xbox instead of the Xbox being a spiritual successor to the Dreamcast
@@excadrillo99 well, it's kind of both depending how you look at it. Neither is really wrong.
@@MichaelM28 Original Xbox including other major consoles like PS3 were sold at huge loss.companies make money from software. Sega had no funding to support such a business model so they had to jump out of hardware business
This is such perfect timing. I just got the dreamcast that I ordered in the mail yesterday and now you are coming out with dreamcast content? Awesome!
I know right and that's crazy cause i just also bought a dreamcast bundle that comes with all cords, 2 controllers (one which is clear blue then he normal white one) 8 games and 3 vmu's (one which is clear blue and another which is clear green then the normal white one) for $150 + $10 shipping. I can't wait for it to arrive 😁👍👍
DoooooD! get you a BUNCH of CD-Rs! make a boot disc. and the rest fill up with games, my buddy pirated the entire library... and there are sooo many good games!
@@boogie5 I plan to. Any games you would suggest?
Loved the Dreamcast. First games I got were Sonic Adventure, Marvel Vs. Capcom and Tokyo Xtreme Racer. Just such a great console!!!
The Dreamcast was a little too ahead of it's time. It was super powerful in 1998, but by 2001...that's another story. GD Roms had massive space...in 1998. Even on the PS1 most games didn't use the right analog stick so the Dreamcast not having dual analog sticks wasn't an issue...in 1998.
It also had every connection you wanted. RF, composite, s video, VGA, and SCART. It could connect to any TV or monitor you wanted. That's something it has over every other 6th gen console. It was the only one to support VGA until the Xbox 360 released
It's sad that not having a DVD player killed it
@Romell Poellinetz that would have increased the cost and this is 1999...smh
In 2001 it was still incredibly powerful, since it was still more powerful in many important ways than the PS2, which released over a year later than the DC's 9/9/99 release. Dual analogs still isn't an issue. It never was for consoles that never even had 1 analog like SNES, genesis, N64, etc. Dual analog made consoles obsolete in many ways. It became harder and harder to justify owning a console over just getting a PC and plugging in your favorite controller, or using MNK
@@tynao2029 I've been working with electronics since 1996, you're kidding me. GTA 3 got cancelled on Dreamcast in 2001 because it simply couldn't run on that hardware, Max Payne 1 also getting cancelled. By 2001/2002, the DC was quite weak and kids bullied me at school for sticking with my Dreamcast and its games, while everyone else was playing Halo. It was even a common joke my peers made was the Dreamcast being a "better looking PS1". I'm one of the biggest Dreamcast fans, but in retrospect it wasn't that powerful when it came out. It was essentially an overpowered PC from 1994/1995 which I have built such machines. Running on late DOS era parts (excluding the gpu), I got Quake 3 running exactly like the DC version, and games like Half-Life 1 and Kiss Psycho Circus lagged very similarly to the DC version, having to play at low graphical settings comparable to their DC version as well.
The problem is that the DC had only 16mb of ram (only double the N64's 8mb with the expansion pak), while the DC really should have had 32mb, and perhaps a hard drive bay for ambitious games. Every low-end PC in 1998/early 1999 that were $400 came with 32mb of ram, which is also what the PS2 came out with at launch.
I think late 1997, the DC should have came out with the specs it had, blowing the PS1 and N64 out of the water, and having a DC 2 by 2002.
Dreamcast:
16mb ram
8mb vram
200mhz processor
CD and GD rom
PS2:
32mb ram
4mb vram (could be shared with main ram to outperform Dreamcast's vram)
300mhz processor
CD and DVD rom
I loved this system so much. I bought the Japanese version before the American release on 9.9.99 and I was so happy to be a diehard SEGA fan, then it died. But what memories. TO this day I am really good at Soul Calibur because of it.
Its not dead though.
I and other still play online and it still gets new games and accessoriesz
Man I remember when this came out. I begged mom and dad to get it for me. My birthday was right around the corner and my mom asked me what I wanted. Well needless to say I got it. Felt like a hotshot carrying it out of Kmart. I loved it.
The reason Xbox couldn't play Dreamcast games is because Microsoft wanted to keep the manufacturing costs down by using off the shelf PC parts. The 700MHz Pentium 3 wasn't powerful enough to do it through emulation, and having a second CPU would have significantly raised the cost of an already expensive system that was being sold at a loss.
Loving the history content. As much as I love games, I never really delved too much into the history of gaming, gaming culture, and pretty much all the other stuff outside of games.
I always wondered why even that dude "Dreamcastguy" produces zero content about the Dreamcast it was such a monumental system and is unfortunately incredibly overlooked, Thanks for doing this!
To this day, i still love and miss the dreamcast. One of my favorite systems of all time
miss? It’s still available to buy send hand
In the xbox documentary they mention that they tried to buy Nintendo and they laughed at them. I wonder if MS tried to buy Sega, and what the response was.
Hopefully Sega laughed at them too
The Dreamcast deserves a lot of attention and more respect!
You understood everything from life plus this console is the best thing Sega has ever done
What always shocked me is the similarities between the controllers
9-9-99 was the release date for the Dreamcast here in the States and I remember it like it were yesterday. I ended up getting it for my Birthday in October of that year. I loved it and wish it would have lasted longer.
happy early (or belated) birthday!
@@strangehominid thanks!
I still remember picking mine up the day it came out. I just got out of detention and dad picked me up to take me to EB Games. I still have all the disc's for the demos they sent out with the monthly magazine subscription
That VMU needs to make a comeback with more features to help kids enjoy getting outdoors like the pokewalker did, and bringing it back to the xbox would be fitting.
Some company is making a VMU2 for the Dreamcast..
The VMU was ahead of its time
@@graphicsgod Saw that and Its pretty nice, also saw the BT wireless dreamcast controller, glad to see fans doing such projects!
@@VEN0M415 Agreed!! Then there's the mods like replacing the power supply to be safer and use less wattage, replacing the cd drive with a sd card slot, better cooling, HDMI out, and etc..
The Dreamcast is such an underrated console. I know it flopped hard after the PS2 came out, which is understandable, but I love Sonic adventure and Skies of Arcadia.
It's not underrated. It was a commercial failure
@@MichaelM28 it failed commercially because it’s underrated
Seeing the controlers side by side can can see the similarities. Even the buttons letters and colors are the same
I still love the Dreamcast. It was the last game system I truly enjoyed.
As my icon shows, I LOVE the Dreamcast. Love seeing people talk about it again! I'm also curious what that timeline would've looked like with SEGA and Microsoft sort of merging back with the DC was axed. Fun stuff to think about!
The Dreamcast is definitely missed 😥
Awesome show, and I hope you continue to do pieces on the Dreamcast! One of my favorite consoles ever and the first one I waited in line at to purchase myself. 👌
I remember G4TV saying some of the people behind Dreamcast transferred to Xbox.
Most definitely. Being both fans of the Dreamcast and og Xbox I've always said that the Xbox was basically the successor of the Dreamcast.
The Windows CE and Direct X teams were completely different. Just watch the Power On Story of Xbox for a better explanation. The Xbox was made to compete with Sony for having a PC in the living room, had nothing to do with Sega.
They ported some dreamcast games to OG xbox
I loved my Dreamcast so many amazing games
Pls keep these Dreamcast videos coming I will defo be looking forward to them and it will take me back to a happier time
That's one of the reasons I prefer Xbox, because I love the Dreamcast. It's the little system that almost could lol. I still think of Xbox as the successor of the Dreamcast. It was just "thinking" of what it wanted to eventually become lol.
I had the Dreamcast and it was way ahead of its time. Back then I was a broke college kid and just burned all the Dreamcast games I could find on direct connect. I also bought the Xbox immediately cause I knew it was the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.
Before unboxing Sega Dreamcast i knew it what i get!
I still remember that big day it was sunny ☀️ afternoon..😏
It was shocking at that time seeing games like Code Veronica, Shenmue, Virtual Striker2 v.99, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Virtual Tennis2, Virtual On, Sega Rally2, Ready to Rumble and so many other games at 60Hetz..it was extreme fast hardware, next generation experience not BS like nowadays..
The dreamcast was ahead of its time
got a Dreamcast as a birthday gift then later got sonic adventure, Rayman 2 and hydro thunder, and House of the dead 2 i believe
It was brief but it was special. This console truly felt like something froma nother age, and playing console games online was really exciting. Countless nights of Speed Devils Online Racing.
Definitely the single best console i've owned, if i count the experience and not the total time played.
I bought an Xbox bc I was a Dreamcast kid. The Dreamcast was my favorite system of all time.
Just bought me a Dreamcast Sports Edition that's fully modded and I'm loving it. I'll never get tired of coming back to this console as it gave me so many good memories. While PS2 is still my favorite console of all time. The Dreamcast will forever be the best console in gaming history!!!
I have been saying this for years...The Xbox 360 felt like the Dreamcast to me. Like the graphics jump gave me the same feeling or taking gaming to the next level
I loved my DC, and got a ton of great games from Circuit City and Target bargin bins back in the early 2000's. Back around 2013 I got another Sega Dreamcast, Sega Sports black console on ebay but I eventually sold it all. I don't really regret it either. I don't want to go back. I made the upgrade to Xbox and not looking back.
Dreamcast is one of the retro console that I really want to get
The question this brings to mind for me is: if backwards compatibility with 360 and original Xbox discs is just the Series X or Xbox One identifying the game and then downloading an updated version... could the same method allow the Series X to play Dreamcast discs?
if they made an emulator for it, yes. but i think sega would rather just re-release their games, rather than let people emulate them on Xbox. besides, you can already emulate Dreamcast games on Xbox with retroarch
this system was just way ahead of its time.
i remember the first time holding the "duke" controller, i remember thinking "well this feels familiar"
Such a well done video. One of my favorite channels. OG XBox is my favorite console, followed by Dreamcast.
I would like to see, Microsoft + sony + nintendo + sega = joint forces team up and make a super ultimate console together. 🤝💯💥✔🔥
XCastation U
A pc
@@royalwave15 dang it beat me to it
Microsoft wouldn't bring much of a contribution
@@MichaelM28it would tho for like specs and all that
Seems like 2000’s nostalgia’s been bubbling up lately. I like it! 👌😂
I always see Dreamcast especially with the Xbox Duke controller that was modeled after it like the face buttons and triggers on the back of the controller and memory card slot.
Kevin! Greta video! For being such a controller fan like me I thought you would have mentioned the controller similarities. While not identical, the triggers and two slots for memory card/vmu was all too similar!
For sure the console itself was influenced by Dreamcast. I wish Microsoft would have supported Dreamcast games.
Own 23 consoles and Dreamcast being in my top 5 I love the hell out of that console it’s one I tend to collect quite a bit for considering my Saturn is kinda hard to manage with the prices of games for that one.
Never had a Dreamcast but I had a cousin that had one and I loved playing Sonic Adventure on it. Such an underrated system that needs more love. Same with the OG Xbox, I loved mine when I was younger and it was a beast. Without it I would’ve never became such a massive Halo fan lol.
brook adapter, 8bitdo arcade stick, gdemu and a vga compatible cable. perfect.
The love I have for my Dreamcast still to this day is completely unmatched
If we’re going to see more content about Sega to Xbox, I believe it’s fitting there should be a video about game franchises that started on Saturn/Dreamcast and continued on Xbox and how the Xbox games compared to their predecessors on Saturn/Dreamcast.
I still have my original Dreamcast from Childhood. It's had a bit of work done from wear and tear over... 22 years? Wew, didn't realize it's been that long. It's one of the rare cases where SD era 3D games still looked good.
Tons of SD era 3D games look great. Look at a ton of 6th gen games and then tons of Wii games. Those are all SD consoles
Unless you meant 5th gen games but the dreamcast wasn't a 5th gen console. That would go to the Sega Saturn. The dreamcast was 6th gen just like the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox
@@crestofhonor2349 The Wii was SD only because Nintendo is ever obstinant. Internally it was capable of 720p for most games, it just didn't have the supporting circuitry for HDMI output. The Dreamcast was closer to a 5.5th gen, it jumped the gun on the generation switch using arcade
hardware developed in '97 for the Naomi (As usual Wikipedia gets it wrong, SH-4 was built for Sega Naomi first, the Dreamcast was built based on the Naomi afterwards), when both Sony and (uncharacteristically) Nintendo were using up to date hardware at release for the Gamecube and PS2.
7:35 As a casual historian I can make some educated guesses.
1: As you postulated, Microsoft's initial standing in Japan would've been far stronger. Japan at the time was already leery of Microsoft (this is why Touhou still had MSX releases post y2k), and the Xbox immediately replacing the Dreamcast reinforced that distrust. A Dreamcast-compatible release would've instead improved Microsoft's reputation in Japan.
2: We wouldn't have gotten the iconic "Duke" controller, not even a prototype that looked much like it. Sega wanted 100% backwards compatibility and Microsoft wanted their own VMU-like memory card anyways. Odds are the controller we would've gotten would have VMU-compatible sockets with extra pins for USB and I2S interfaces to support even larger memory cards but wouldn't look like the Duke OR the S just as an issue of artistic design. In this timelime we'd never have gotten a lot of cult classics, Blinx the Cat, Chromehounds, and Phantom Dust existed in part to help bridge the sizable gap between Microsoft and the Japanese market that wouldn't exist in this timeline.
3: Assuming Microsoft expanded their support to JP developers releasing on the OG (including relenting on censorship), the Xbox 360 or whatever that timeline's equiavalent would be, wouldn't have been the laughing stock of the Japanese console market. Sony's early struggles with the PS3 become much worse. It also wouldn't have looked much like the Xbox 360 we got. The Xbox 360 was designed to be the exact opposite of the OG because of the mockery it got as a big black brick with an oval for a game pad, neither would likely still be the case in our new timeline.
Microsoft came close to buying Sega several times and I think now would be a great time to finally do it. Buy Sega and their IP catalogue, and have the Xbox marketed as a Sega machine in Japan.
I don’t know after what they did to rare I don’t trust them
The Xbox would have existed as it was created as a response to a threat MS saw to desktop Windows from Sonys PS2.
Sega licensed Windows CE and Direct X, interestingly the Xbox used the Windows NT/2000 Kernal instead of CE
The majority of Dreamcast games didn't use CE or Direct X though
Really OG Xbox was the start of X86 PC desktop hardware in a box, Dreamcast shared a lot of underpinnings with the Naomi arcade system. The PowerVR GPU though was impressive for the time
I've been saying this for years especially the fact that a good portion of launch titles were ports or remasters of Dreamcast games
I have a soft spot for the Dreamcast. Got mine on launch and still have it today. I need to get an HDMI adapter or do the physical modification.
Aaaah no mention of the Sega Chihiro? That was a Sega arcade system based on.....drum roll.....the original Xbox!
been saying this for years love this video ! i always wished xbox bought sega tbh lol imagine sonic and all of segas great games being only for xbox that would of been dope fr
I was a Nintendo kid growing up but a friend let me borrow their Dreamcast and man was it ahead of its time. It made me like Sega but also made me excited for what Nintendo would have to offer in the future at the time.
We need a Sega Dreamcast 2 in the works. The original Dreamcast is nothing but old news, anyway.
I am a fan of sega mainly because of how cool sonic is.
The Xbox Duke and Dreamcast controller are clearly related.
Dreamcast Is my favorite 6th gen console , and one of my top 3 favorites of all time If not #1.
what i think should happen these days is Microsoft let sega market xbox in japan. A complete rebranding to the Sega series x, Sega tower, or whatever they want to call it.
People who were and are fans of SEGA and it's hardware naturally moved to Xbox and can't explain why they love Xbox and SEGA maybe because the 2 goes hand to hand and the controller design ques of the Xbox controller comes from the Dreamcast. Did you know that Halo CE was originally a Dreamcast game?, but when the Dreamcast was pulled from the console market Bungie decided and MS agreed to put it on Xbox and the rest was history.
Halo CE was going to be multiplatform. It was going to release on the Dreamcast (abandoned early on), Xbox, PC/Mac and PS2. Microsoft just convinced them at the last second to make it exclusive... sort of. The PC and Mac releases still happened even if it was 2 years later.
I think it would have been interesting if MS acquired Sega back then.
I'm a DREAMCAST fan
I am loving the Evolution game play in this video!!
Seamus said Dreamcast had no way of playing Xbox games. I’m just throwing this here because so many people eventually bring up how “Dreamcast was going to play Xbox games!” The answer is NO.
I love SEGA, I still have all consoles. I’m a big SEGA fan. The Dreamcast definitely is the best console ever due to the concept, games, style, and technology at that time. I love everything about Dreamcast lol
Take your beanie off and let it shine
I never had a Dreamcast, but I do have a Genesis and a GameGear, and it made me sad when Sega got out of the hardware business. Every time a new console came out I wondered what Sega's entry to that generation would look like.
I've always said that I thought Microsoft took over Sega's hardware division.
Im tired of seeing 2000s kids who never had a Dreamcast making an Xbox best games list video without acknowledging Sega....
this video is refreshing
Sega was basically the Obi Wan to Microsoft’s Luke
I have had every console since the Atari 2600 to today and by far the Dreamcast is my all time favorite.
@RedCat Food really , ever consoles like the NEC PCFX , watara supervision , Epoch cassette vision and super cassette vision ?🤣🤣😂😂😅
@@cryptocsguy9282 no just ones people actually owned 🤷🏻♂️
@@RadCatFood Oh haha thought so lmao :)
9/9/1999....iconic day.🎉
hooray for more Dreamcast videos! Always loved mine since 2000 and felt it could’ve had a much stronger life.
Still, some great games and great graphics in its short time. Glad to fire it up every now and again.
Good Job, Kevin! The rumor of Sega of Japan, in article was that, the original Xbox was going to be backwards compatible, but not Sega of Japan red flag for many reasons, one of them being region free systems, for the Xbox and Microsoft.
I got my Dreamcast used from Gamestop had a lot of fun modding it. Still have it in the original "used" box.
And you omited the big obvious thing: the dreamcast controller is pretty much the predecessor of the xbox controller.
Loved my dc when I had one for a GameCube and Xbox sx now.
I love these types of video reviews and speculations. Keep em coming. But yeah, I personally can say that I always knew there was a similarity between both companies and how it was second nature for me playing the Xbox when coming from the Dreamcast back in '01/'02. I actually go further back with my Saturn and it's 3D controller. Up to now, I still have trouble using the PlayStation controls and have stuck with Xbox. I've purchased my Xbox series X Halo infinite edition last year and it's great. 😎
I have my sister’s old (and pristine) Dreamcast but something is wrong with disc reader and it makes me sad because I cannot play the old games we did when we were kids 😢
I remember i had a sega dreamcast and a ps2 i got them both for christmas i played the dreamcast about 7 times while i played the ps2 daily
I love my DC. I went about bought a red translucent Code Veronica shell to make it just, a little more special. And omg, the Deck places DC so well.
Damn the nostalgia from that startup sound
Still own my Sega Dreamcast that i got from launch and have 35 games for it love it so much favroiute system of all time
Great retrospective video!
you can really see it with the controllers too. (the original original controller for xbox, that is!)
I still have My SEGA Dreamcast
People called the Xbox the dreamcast 2 for a good reason.
yo dreamcast was a revolutionary console, and im glad that microsofts involvement is being recognized
O Dreamcast foi o Console de Sexta Geração, que muitos desenvolvedores se quer tentaram levar seus Gráficos ao Limite, salvo um pequeno número que quando não tinha preguiça, como a maioria, em pegar port feito pra PS1, e depois portar para o Dreamcast, conseguia mostrar o Poder do Console, um bom exemplo é Test Drive 24 Lamans, que mostra um Sistema Poderoso, infelizmente a conspiração venho e tirou o Dreamcast, para favorecer o Xbox Original, essa é a verdade, e por isso não considero o Xbox Original, como Sucessor, ta mais pra "Usurpador" mesmo, fora que as Arquiteturas é Totalmente Diferentes e Opostas!
Outrun 2 ran on Xbox arcade hardware so it made sense to port it over.
i was look in the shed looking for my psp games,ps2 games and my ds games and found my dreamcast yesterday with sonic adventures 2 in it idk where the 1st one is so i went in side and plugged it in it turns on but it looks like the controller doesn’t work or the controller fuse got blown up and also it spins and then stops idk if that’s normal but i dont know if it plays games😢