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Was the Dreamcast really ahead of its time in 1998?
Dreamcast in 1998 was truly ahead of its time
>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM
>Native VGA out support
>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present
>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data
>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized
>Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast
>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM
>Native VGA out support
>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present
>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data
>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized
>Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast
Dreamcast was truly ahead of its time
>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM
>Native VGA out support
>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present
>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data
>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized
>Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast
>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM
>Native VGA out support
>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present
>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data
>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized
>Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast
Was the Dreamcast really ahead of its time?
What went so wrong with Japanese electronics and game consoles?
20 years ago, companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Casio, Hitachi, Olympus, Seiko, Sharp, NEC etc dominated the electronics industry but today they are a mere shell of what they used to be like
>refrigerators, washmachines, vacuums, batteries, and air conditioners
>Laundry machines, including washer-dryers
>lithium-ion and flash memory your phone uses were created by Japanese
>Hitachi Building Systems is the second largest manufacturer of elevators in Japan
>DSLR cameras
>LCD
>LED blue light
>fiber optic communications
>the first bullet train (Shinkansen)
>CD was created by Sony based on PCM sound source
>Video Home System (VHS), which preceded the DVD, was invented by Victor Company of Japan
>DVD
>Blu-Ray discs
>Japanese cellphone
>Nintendo
>SEGA MEGA DRIVE, SEGA SATURN, SEGA DREAMCAST
>PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
>Capcom. SquareSoft. FromSoft, Konami, Bandai, Kojima, Shinji Mikami, Yuji Naka, Miyamoto, etc
20 years ago, companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Casio, Hitachi, Olympus, Seiko, Sharp, NEC etc dominated the electronics industry but today they are a mere shell of what they used to be like
>refrigerators, washmachines, vacuums, batteries, and air conditioners
>Laundry machines, including washer-dryers
>lithium-ion and flash memory your phone uses were created by Japanese
>Hitachi Building Systems is the second largest manufacturer of elevators in Japan
>DSLR cameras
>LCD
>LED blue light
>fiber optic communications
>the first bullet train (Shinkansen)
>CD was created by Sony based on PCM sound source
>Video Home System (VHS), which preceded the DVD, was invented by Victor Company of Japan
>DVD
>Blu-Ray discs
>Japanese cellphone
>Nintendo
>SEGA MEGA DRIVE, SEGA SATURN, SEGA DREAMCAST
>PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
>Capcom. SquareSoft. FromSoft, Konami, Bandai, Kojima, Shinji Mikami, Yuji Naka, Miyamoto, etc
Why is the Dreamcast so beloved even after 25 years? Was it really ahead of its time?
Was the Dreamcast really ahead of its time?
Dreamcast was truly ahead of its time
>Sega of Japan's Katana for Dreamcast
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM (8x the PS1/Saturn)
>Sega of Japan's Katana for Dreamcast
>Hitachi SH4 chips
>PVR on Dreamcast was much better than PSX GPU
>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features
>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level
>16MB of RAM (8x the PS1/Saturn)