Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right.

This is a really odd way of putting it seeing as the Dreamcast came out before the PS2 and was discontinued before the other 2 even came out.

They had everything right with the Dreamcast, but they had no confidence. They killed it after just 1 year while sales were actually rising, and even in that time it managed to get one of the best libraries of that era. Imagine if they had actually continued to support it.

I loved the dreamcast!

Firefly and Dreamcast. Two things nerds are never going to fucking get over.

Hey.......I still remember the release date. 9/9/99.

Plus, you could use your dreamcast to talk to a fish. An insulting sarcastic fish.....but the game was narrated by Leonard Nemoy. Sometimes he'd insult you too.....

All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.

I really like my Dreamcast!

They just really wanted to release on 9/9/99 no matter what.

Umm I'm sorry to break this to you buddy but I pirated every dreamcast game I owned short of sonic adventure and Phantsy star online. That's probably why the dreamcast failed.

Sega’s only console success was Mega Drive/Genesis. Probably because “Sega does what Nintendon’t”. Sega managed to sell themselves as the alternative for the kids who were too cool for the SNES.

They couldn’t compete with Sony on that front. Sony was the new cool guy. Dreamcast failed because everybody was waiting for PS2.

So I’d say failed marketing killed Dreamcast.

Dreamcast is still my favorite console of all time.

If they put a DVD drive in the Dreamcast there's never a PlayStation 3

i beg to differ; dreamcast was my life during first and second year uni. i played the hell out of phantasy star online.

I'm just gonna say it. Dreamcast was my favorite console until ps4 and ps5.

The PSX/N64/Saturn generation would've been better for this meme. Nintendo had its name, Sony had "two ninety nine", Sega had schizophrenic mismanagement and burnt bridges with retailers

Dreamcast finally let me access the internet from the privacy of my own room.

I'm going to take a bold position and say they were all good consoles. It was a beautiful time for video games.

Sega was awesome. Fuck the gameboy. The brick that was gamegear was so much better.

(Not that young me saw the difference) but the 32x or whatever it was called.

And Dreamcast. That shit was so ahead of its time.

Poor Sega. There just wasn't room for four consoles.

There are so many reasons why it failed but we all love it so.

Loved the Dreamcast. Other than the lack of DVD player, I still think it was better than the PS2.

Quite a few games that were released on both consoles looked better and played more smoothly on the Dreamcast than they did on the supposedly more powerful PS2. Dave Mirra BMX is one that immediately comes to mind. It was way better on the Dreamcast.

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