Peter Moore talks death of the Dreamcast

Like Kurt Cobain, it died a legend.

So many fond memories... I remember playing soul caliber and thinking whoa, graphics can't get any better than this.

SEGA tried to compete with a hardware giant on a hardware giant's terms

If you can't compete, and don't change the rules of the game, you will be destroyed. I still wonder at the fact that it didn't happen to Nintendo, and am glad that they learned from SEGA's demise.

I wonder what if SEGA had come with new consoles.

The Wii is the new Dreamcast. I even recall when people made fun of the Dreamcast name when it first came out.
So if SEGA gets anywhere near the Wii admin., we know where thats going.

so sega hired a newb to the video game industry 6 months before the dreamcast came out to head sega of america to market and sell the system? that sounds like fail to me. and it was....

RIP Dreamcast.
I'll always remember the dreamcast, it was the first system I purchased with money I saved up for almost a year before it came out when I was a younger lad....

and if Sega had put all their money into it

i wonder if they would have won

this one is for retarded vmus and marathon sessions of soulclibur just to play as weapon master.

forget that! I remember the first time I played Fatal Fury! That's what it's all about! I think they should take all of the top games Dreamcast had and expand them into mobile games.

-Motorokr

Sega are dead yet Nintendo thrives. There is no justice.

Well, at least Sony are flailing in the mire.

I'll remember dreamcast with fond memories even 50 years from now. I can still remember what I felt when I bought it and brought it home, and what it felt to play games like Grandia II, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, Metropolis Street Racer, Dead or Alive, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Power Stone 2 ("Hey hey hey! Don't fall off! Cos it's a long way down there!"), Shenmue 2, Sonic Adventure, Chuchu Rocket, Phantasy Star Online, etc.. etc.. omfg.. screw you all third party developers for jumping on Sony playstation 2 hype bandwagon!

@ inlogic

That quote was great...my personal favorite was "I don't believe it! It's an alien!".

All I ever hear was how much people loved Power Stone 2. Hopefully, that means we can get it on xbla or a true sequel (now that Smash bros. has continued to thrive).

Amongst the last few DC related threads I haven't seen anybody mention Project Justice. I absolutely adored this game and thought it was a great addition to the DC's already excellent fighter catalog.

Bring back Rival Schools!

I miss all those arcade ports. I think Sega died along with the arcades honestly. They both burned out about the same time. I guess that is really what gaming is to me, so in my opinion we lost the company that really represented that era. It's kinda sad.

I miss playing Daytona USA, Jet Grind Radio, Soul Calibur, Ikaruga, .. I could go on. The Dreamcast still gets a lot of play time here, especially when I want to play the best version of Marvel VS Capcom 2 :D.

It is a shame, because unlike something like the NGage, it's not like the system was doing poorly by any means.. it just got snuffed out by Sony's monopolistic take over of the industry at that time lol.

I too miss the days when in order to have a successful gaming console, you didn't need to back it by 18 other industries worth of revenue from sister companies you owned. It's one reason, no matter what odd decision the company makes, I will always silently cheer for Nintendo. If that company goes, then every company I grew up with will have pretty much disappeared, which is a shame. Young fanboys who don't get what many of us grew up with (arcades and pong systems), will never understand how stupid it is to *wish* a company to go out of business when they talk ill of Nintendo. But if they ever did get snuffed out, I think they'd soon realize what they lost.

Here's to one of the greatest. Cheers.

i wonder how the dreamcast would of fair if they included the dvd capabilities. i know for a fact that was the selling point for ps2 back then. dvd players were expensive and ps2 was a cheap dvd player and gaming console.

my friend's father bought the ps2 specifically for it's dvd capabilities cause we all knew how crappy ps2 games were when it first launched.

The irony of this all, is that he now works for the company that REFUSED to make games on the system he was in charge of in the US..

The Dreamcast was the obscure mother of the Xbox..

I might dust off the old girl, play a lil bit o' Guts Revenge or Chu Chu Rocket! ;)

There is a special place in hell for you Peter Moore.

And we're all waiting to dance on your grave.

The problem with the Dreamcast was Peter Moore. The guy is an imbecile of biblical proportions. Seriously how he has got to where he is confounds me. He has destroyed every company he has worked for.

We'll start with Patrick, at the time one of the biggest names in soccer. Peter Moore came along and within a few years you just didn't here about Patrick anymore, why well Peter Moore of course.

He then moved on to Reebok. At the time they dethroned Nike as the leading maker of athletic shoes thanks in part to the exercise boom of the '80s. Peter Moore came along and where is Reebok now, a shadow of its former self and kept alive because of massive investments in the NFL. In truth the company is not doing so well and the #1 outlet for Reebok shoes is Sears.

Peter Moore then decided to move into a new industry and took his position at Sega. We all know what happened there.

Then good ol' Peter took a job at Microsoft and presided over multi-billion dollar losses that would have sank any other company and released the worst quality hardware in the history of video game consoles. That Steve Balmer sought him out speaks volumes about the leadership quality of Balmer. Arguably one of the worst people running a company today.

This guy is still employed at a high level in a major corporation. That fact pretty much proves that the people running US corporations are total idiots. Moore must be very good at hiding money and negotiating stock scams. It is the only way he can stay at the top. It is also the reason why the economy is in the state it is in. A whole lot of companies are run by people like Peter Moore.

As head of EA, Peter Moore should apologize for the mistakes of his forefathers, who had a part in killing the Dreamcast.