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Re: Is PowerVR chip (used in Dreamcast) a good one?
« on: January 29, 2004, 04:12:34 PM »
I'm not sure... but the chip used in dreamcast is of the same family of Kyro I or II?

Anyway a Matrox G550 probably will provide a quality as good if not better than DC and will allow you to use AGP, so you'll be able to upgrade or change your card easily.
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Re: Is PowerVR chip (used in Dreamcast) a good one?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2004, 06:19:55 PM »
@Lempkee:

"also the DC didnt die because of the hardware or the software, it died because of SEGA's lame way of marketing their products and maybe most of all they turned every developer down due to they wanted to kill it themself (almost like nintendo GC 1 year ago, but it has resurected!)."

IMHO one of the points that helps a console to sell well is piracy. N64 sold bad because it was hard to pirate games and the solutions to pirate games came too late (like in the DC). PS1 sold well because it was dead easy to pirate games. Same with PS2.  XBoxes are sold because it's easy to pirate games. I didn't see GameCubes until someone found a way to boot games from normal cdroms (=pirate games).

With the GC the same has happened, it only was sold in few quantities until someone found a way to execute code in the console using its network card, now it's possible to use pirate games so now it's selling well.

My theory is that if a console is more or less easy to pirate and has lots of titles it will sell well.

As the companies that make these consoles are big and they sell lots of units and hundreds of games are sold even if the piracy level is high, developers still have profits. Users buy a few originals and pirate lots of games but as there are hundreds of thousands of users, developers still have profits.

In our market it's really stupid to piraty anything as we have so few titles that a few users buying a product makes a huge difference.

So in conclusion... consoles easy to pirate sell well. It doesn't matter if the other consoles are better if their games are harder to pirate, users will choose the one with more pirate games.

That happened with amiga and pc in the early 90s too... people bought pcs due to the easy way of getting pirate games/apps and not because it was better/worse than amigas. When they said "why you use an amiga? it doesn't have programs!" they mean that their friends couldn't pass them pirate apps/games.

This is sad but true. And DC sales was smashed by PS1 even thought in some technical aspects it was better than the PS2 :-(
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