7800 keyboard - Would it have sold?

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The DC one was made mostly for 2 purposes: 1) People who wanted the mouse/keyboard experience on a console for games like Quake III and 2) for the web browser

 

It's interesting - I bought both the DC keyboard and mouse back in the day when the DC was still new and I hardly ever ended up using them. Really was more of a novelty than anything else I guess ... for me anyway. I didn't use the Dreamcast to go on the web more than a few times (It was dial up and we had high speed by then) and I can't think of any games that really benefited from it.

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The XEGS was solely a Tramiel thing so that was not an Atari, Inc. decision.

 

^^^ This ^^^

 

If you haven't read it, there's a really good contemporary posting from Neil Harris @ Atari Corp on the XEGS rationale. It's posted in this thread.

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/280863-why-xegs-when-the-7800-already-existed/