I agree with you about the Dreamcast. It was a good system, and I'm surprised it tanked the way it did.
Originally Posted by Epoch
The PS2 has had a checkered history, and it's a good console, but it's taken years until games have come out to really push the system (GTA:SA, MGS3, Killzone, GT4, etc...).
Do you mean "push the system" as in push it to its performance limits, or push as in advertise/have games that people want to buy? I'm hoping you mean the latter, because GTA:SA and GT4 are obviously sequels to games that were "must-have" items when PS2 was pretty new.
As far as the PS2 lacking support for 480p, and 16x9, back in 2000 I didn't know a single person who had a TV capable of displaying either of those modes. HDTV, LCDs, and plasmas were all either in their infancy or not yet on the market in any sort of reasonable quantity. I didn't know the DC had 480p support, but I also didn't know anyone who even wanted to hook up their console to a PC monitor or HDTV until a year ago. The PS2 would have had to be pretty prophetic to predict in 2000 what people would want from a console in 2005.