Comments on: Could add-on peripherals have increased the Dreamcast’s power?

By: Dean Piper

Dean Piper — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:31:00 +0000

In reply to agentboolen. it doesnt need to be with dvd and broadband, it could of been ram and broadband

By: John Perkins

John Perkins — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:40:00 +0000

I always wondered about this. I would have loved to of seen the full capabilities of the DC even without the expansions. Shenmue and Headhunter really looked great for the time.

By: agentboolen

agentboolen — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:38:00 +0000

In reply to TechJunkie69. In the early 2000's I don't think a DVD player add-on could have been added at that price tag. That was right at the beginning of that technology and of course that's when prices are highest. Reason it probably never came out was most likely price and the fact the life span if the system wasn't that long.

By: TechJunkie69

TechJunkie69 — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:32:00 +0000

A $99-149 expansion like the Karaoki add-on except with DVD and Broadband could have worked, no additional processing power. The expansion bandwidth could easily handle both and could have been released the same timeframe as the PS2. As this relates to games it could have allowed them to support larger games at the expense of exclusivity to the add-on, but the overall cost of the system would still have been competitive with the PS2. Sega’s management however is awful, so of course we never got that.

By: Pentagen

Pentagen — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:33:00 +0000

Add-ons wouldn’t have helped. Unlike previous Sega game consoles, the Dreamcast had no high speed expansion port. The processing power that the Dreamcast had in the beginning was all the processing power that it would ever have to work with. The best that could have happened was software developers better optimizing their code to make for superior-performing games.

By: TigerGD

TigerGD — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:26:00 +0000

In reply to Sh0X. If they were going to upgrade, they might as well have gone more like Naomi 2 and added a T&L unit. VF4 looks so much better in the arcade than on PS4, but an upgraded Dreamcast could have matched the arcade.

By: Sh0X

Sh0X — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:46:00 +0000

Dreamcast could have been better with 32 MB of System Ram, 16 MB Video and 8 MB of Sound Ram, even if it was 100$ more expensive from my point of view was worth it. Also there would have been no difference with Naomi which means straight ports from Arcade w/o lifting.