Many of its games are enhanced ports of PS1 or N64 games.
Ah yes all those PSX/N64 games like Quake 3 Arena, Soul Calibur, power stone, DOA2, RE code veronica, Half Life, slave zero, headhunter............the few cross-ports I could find it was the PC version of the game not the PSX. Even down at the hardware level the DC was much closer to the PS2 than the PSX. The AES which was far more powerful than any other 16bit console was still closer in power to the Genesis than the DC was to the PSX.
It's honestly weird to me that people try to lump it in with the PS2 era.
IIRC there were more ports between the DC and the PS2 than between the DC and the PSX, and some of the ports looked better on the DC, like DOA2. That's why, that and the specs.
While looking at "roms" for the PS3, I noticed a bunch of PS1 and PS2 games. PS1 games I assume are just emulated versions from PSN, but what about PS2? e
The first fat PS3 models had a PS2 built-in, CPU and GPU, later models used software emulation which I been told was dogshit but IDK.
Tho good luck finding a fat unit that hasn't YLOD already.
Any complaints about the Dreamcast at the time were generally in comparison to the PS2. Not having a DVD player was a big strike against it.
I remember some SEGA guy saying they considered adding a DVD drive but then the price would have jumped from $199 to $249.........which would've still being cheap af for a DVD player att, the PS2 was already a steal at $299 for the same reason and its why Sony was able to move so many units at first since in a classic move now it had NO GAMES at launch. A DC with a DVD instead of a modem would've been way more successful, 56k was too weak for good online gaming and broadband was still years away from going mainstream.
Of course this is all obvious in hindsight, the DC launched at the height of the dotcom bubble and it being "internet-ready" seemed like a much better idea than a DVD when att you could barely get any movies in that format and few video rentals had any.
and even it's big adventure games like Sonic Adventure
The "adventure" part of SA1 was barely there and gone from SA2, should've used Skies of Arcadia as an example instead.
The experimental aspect of the PSX is less about wacky games like the DC and more that like I said they were moving into a new paradigm with 3D so devs were trying anything to see what works. Early games like Pandemonium are a good example of this.
What innovation? Even PS2 era wasn't all that innovative compared the PS1 era, it was largely about refinement.
I'll argue that control, camera and layout-wise PS2 era games are way closer not just to PS3 but even current games. GTAV plays pretty much like GTA3 did, but nothing like GTA1 or Driver did on the PSX, same with MGS2 to MGSV, MGS1 meanwhile plays more like the old 8bit Metal Gear games.
Like I said before the PSX was about learning how to make 3D games, it was experimental in the very sense of the word and not because they were trying to think outside the box for novelty's sake. Read the story about the first Crash Bandicoot game, NG spent as much time trying to figure out the gameplay as they did trying to get the PSX to display those graphics.
