Revisionist history. We were not living in harmony.
The Dreamcast lovers cried into their Shen Mue.
Game Cube fans quietly played Smash bros.
PC Master Race was still arguing about sound cards and telling Gabe to fuck off with this Steam Always On Bullshit.
For most of the gaming industry, you were either PS or Xbox. There was no unity.
I’d hardly call it harmony. Those were brutal times.
Except for the PlayStation only being a thing because Nintendo stabbed Sony in the back, and Sega was already dead.
1 out of 4 isn’t bad, I guess.
then everything changed when
$299
The Dreamcast didn’t even survive until the release of the Xbox (if I’m not mistaken).
This was in a way by design, Sega and Microsoft had an very interesting relationship at the time. With Windows CE on Dreamcast, Isao Okawa meeting with Bill Gates to try to save the DC library, and Peter Moore moving from Sega to Xbox.
It reminds me of how the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a SNES CD before they went their separate ways.
