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Oh, and Lasereth, the SNES started the online console gaming thang (just read it in a CUBE magazine)
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Yeah, that XBand modem was released for SNES a long time ago. No one bought it. No one played it. It wasn't a community, it was a place for about 1,000 people to show off how dorky they were. It failed miserable after a year. I said the Dreamcast started the online gaming COMMUNITY; with that I mean more than 1,000 players. I believe XBox Live now has 450,000 subscribers. Now that's a community!
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And you mentioned not having to upgrade a console?? How many people with A Playstation have purchased a Playstation 2 to play the new games, and how much did that cost you???
Same with every generation of Ninteno machines. If you wanted to play the latest Zelda, or Metroid game, you had to buy the new console.
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It costs between $150.00 and $300.00 to buy a new console. Consoles are gauranteed to play every single game available for them. The PS1 had over 3,000 games to play. On top of that, the average console lasts 5 years on the market before a its "sequel" comes out. Simply enough, you can't buy a PC for $150-$300 that will play over 3,000 games AND last for 5 years without having to upgrade. In this area, it's the simple reason why consoles beat out computers in the gaming arena. I believe this is also the reason clockworkgreen is changing to console.
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Hrm, looks like this x-band modem for the snes and genesis was sold in the u.s. and predated the dreamcast by at least a couple years . . .
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Yes, it did come out before Dreamcast, but like I said above, it sucked. It was not successful; the world wasn't ready for online gaming yet. Not on consoles, anyway. Dreamcast DID start the online gaming community on consoles.
-Lasereth