Dreamcast was one of the best consoles ever

**11th Chamber** · 05-12-2010, 11:56 AM

Shenmue 2 came out on Xbox in like 2002

theres been talks of doing a 3rd one for years, just never came to fruition

**shaolinsword** · 05-12-2010, 02:24 PM

The only chance of getting a Shenmue 3 is if the first two are released either on a disc or on PSN/XBLA and it gets an extremely good reception imo

**BRONZBODY** · 05-12-2010, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by 11th Chamber

Believe it or not, the failure of the Sega Saturn was largely to blame. They lost over 268 Million dollars with that system and put themselves in an near un-recoverable hole.

Many large videogame companys wanted nothing to do with Sega anymore. Apparently the Saturn mainboard was hard to design on, and when developers finally got a hang of it, Sega announced the canceling of the system, which lead to a domino effect of people not wanting to work with them anymore as they introduced the Dreamcast

in a nutshell. plus sega decided to release the sega saturn 6 months early to beat out sony and nintendo in the us. DUD..... and like 11th said the saturn was a bitch to program for other than capcom, no on but sega themselves knew how to program for it. not to mention the game gear, sega cd, sega 32x, sega cdx and the neptune which never officially dropped. fast foward to 1999- to this day i still think the dreamcast was a much better system than the ps2 but the ps2 had one thing going for it. it also played dvd's sega of america wanted to make a dvd ad on for the console but sega of japan did not see the reason and believed the games would sell the console. which at first, it did. 10/26/2000 the ps2 drops and absolutely rapes the dreamcast not because of the games cause other than madden and ssx...the rest sucked assbuckets. it was a cheap dvd player. sony sold 7 million consoles world wide in the first 9 months off the dvd player alone. add what 11th said and sega eventually said fuck it......though i have a feeling they will be back.....

**TAURO** · 05-12-2010, 02:58 PM

Sega lost me as a consumer when I got burned with the 32X. I was a die hard fan during the 16 bit era and I would have bought the sega saturn, but their failure to support their hardware put doubts in my head, when it came to finally jumping into the 32 bit systems I was really left with only one option and I haven't looked back since. Long live the playstation.