Would you kickstart a dreamcast 2?

Not sure what you mean. Dreamcast games like The House of the Dead 2, Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2, Space Channel 5, F355 Challenge and Shenmue had the most cutting-edge graphics seen on a home system in the late '90s, the closest any home system had ever come to arcade-quality 3D graphics up until then. But if you mean games that pushed the Dreamcast the furthest, then Shenmue II probably pushed it the furthest in 2001, but it could have been pushed even further if it didn't die so soon.

.. Sure it can.. We really have two consoles in the market place.. Nintendo Wii-U which isn't doing too hot.. And XboxonePS4 A, and XboxonePS4 B... Basically the same consoles sharing the majority of limited features (that both companies cut from last gen) and multi-plats..

Nope if anything Nintendo wiiu deserves more sales before Sega deserves another chance in the console market! With more failures,then Nintendo which I would say Nintendo only had one commercial failure vs segas. Four!

No. I remember when the OUYA was on kickstarter and people laughed at me for criticising it, yet everything I said about it turned out to be true.

The thing about Kickstarter is that you will never get that much money on it. It's great for small teams or individuals, but to make something as big as a console just simply can't be done. The most backed Kickstarter project is a watch that got $18 million. That sounds like a lot to us, but when you compare that to the budgets of the PS4, Xbox One or WiiU, it's not even a drop in the ocean.

Star Citizen?

You're allowed your opinion but I still blame Xbox for the death of Dreamcast. That said, I wouldn't support it, not anymore. Sega has gone so far downhill in quality that I don't think they would even know what to do with a system of their own.

The Sega we loved from yesteryear is dead. I've come to terms with it and placed some flowers at the foot of their tomb stone.

I would gladly support a dream cast 2, but the name doesn't matter, if it actually ran games at 1080p and 60fps.

Yeah, the Xbox was originally intended to be backwards compatible with Dreamcast games. There were talks between Bill Gates and Sega boss Isao Okawa about this feature. However, Sega insisted the Xbox supports the online features of Dreamcast games, whereas Microsoft insisted their online features be left out, so the deal fell through. In addition, Xbox Live was clearly the successor to SegaNet, while the Xbox controller was clearly the successor to the Dreamcast controller. The Xbox was the successor to the Dreamcast in almost every way.

That got 2 million on Kickstarter. It made a lot more since then through sales.

I can think of at least three commercial hardware failures that Nintendo has had in video gaming: the Radar Scope arcade game, the Virtual Boy handheld, and the Wii U console.

While there's no doubt the Sega CD, 32X and Dreamcast were commercial failures, the same cannot be said for the Saturn, which was a failure in the West but at the same time Sega's biggest console success in Japan.

Kickstarting a dreamcast console is basically kicksta rting exclusivity of sega games. Why would anyone do that? Id rather kickstart a game than a console.

Heck id kickstart shenmue 3.

I'd support a Dreamcast 2 if SEGA wasn't run by angry Japanese businessmen making daft decisions all the time.

So we can get sequels to great games like Sonic Boom?

I'd kickstart a purchase of Sega's IP's by Nintendo.

If it wasn't just in name, but an actual SEGA console that had all of their old IP's being reborn with care, then hell yeah, I would. Man, I'd ditch today's Nintendo, MS, and Sony in a heartbeat, and would go back to just playing PC+SEGA like I did when I was a little kid if that ever happened. Too bad it won't though, plus SEGA of Japan is ran by idiots. :(

Quick google searches are not going to teach you the differences between hardware. There's no comparing clocks or anything else between different architectures, though that pentium was a faster cpu, clock for clock the N64 had a better one. On the graphics side, N64 could do texture filtering and many other techniques PC cards couldn't at the time, and had some powerful compute units in there as well, and a seperate chip for micro code that was insanely powerful. You could do dynamic lighting on N64.

It wasn't an all powerful machine and had some flaws, but it could just do a lot more than a PC from 96.

Man, that would've been incredible. If that happened and MS didn't get screwed over by Nvidia, that console could've been the best ever made. I still love it though, amazing console.

Console gaming is in decline. Even at its height in the 16 bit era there were only three real competitors and one of the three (TurboGrafx 16) didn't make it. Neo Geo could be considered a 4th, but it was always a niche system/arcade system. Fast forward to today when you have major competition from smartphones and tablets, arcades don't exist, and handheld gaming is much more of a force. As for Xbone and PS4 being the same console. The same could be said for SNES and Genesis. They shared a ton of multiplats, but the exclusives were what mattered.

I would not back a Dreamcast 2. It would still be run by Sega and Sega has shown time and again that they can't manage their way out of a paper bag. We the people could fund it, fund the games, and fund the advertising, and Sega would still find a way to destroy it within the span of a year.

To be fair to Sega, they have been publishing Total War, probably the most constantly highest rated annual series (or most platforms, not just pc) as well as more recently picked up Relic, arguably the best developer of real time strategy games around.

While it may be a different direction, it's not necessarily a bad one.