Comment Re:I thought that was Nintendo's failure... (Score 1) 153
CD burners that cheap didn't come out until years after the Dreamcast was already dead.
Sorry, but you're wrong on that, or didn't know how to shop. By the time Dreamcast came out CD-R's had been available for 10 years and had dropped in price significantly. I already had a CD burner (actually my second one) in my computer when I went to college the same year Dreamcast was released. It was less than $100 - bought on a part time minimum wage teenager's earnings.
And someone won the Powerball last week. Extraordinarily rare anecdotes do not a median make.
The point was that it wasn't extraordinarily rare. Broadband was very much available at the time the Dreamcast came out. Certainly not at the speeds available today (my current connection is 50x faster than what I had back then), but it was still broadband and downloading a single ISO wasn't all that bad.