[lightning18]

So back when I was a child (secondary school), my uncle owns a sega dreamcast. I was jealous because he wouldn't let me play his dreamcast. I wanted to play Shenmue but he said it wasn't for kids. After the released of playstation 1, game producers did no longer produce games for dreamcast. What happened? Why did they stop producing console?

[CTx]

I could sum up for you with one word: evolution...
That console got obsolete logically... there are way better ones. It wouldn't pay off producing obsolete consoles. What's the logic in that?
The same way floppy disks are gone... cassettes, gigantic computers with 5MB HDD. Should I continue?

[halcyon220]

The dreamcast was the best console. Ever. (In my opinion, anyways). Could you imagine online gaming - IN 1999?!?!

It was great. Quake 3 deathmatch with others...again, on a console? In the 90s? Never heard of before. Great hardware, software, games and the best features ever.

But the dreamcast took a huge hit with the MegaDrive/Genesis's add ons - The 32x and MegaCD which ultimately gave Sega a bad name. This is the history:

- Mega Drive released.

- a few years later, 32x released. It was intended as a standalone project called 'Neptune' but was just an ugly mushroom looking addon for the Genesis - It was a failure, because..well, in my opinion, it deserved to be.

- a few months later, the SEGA CD came. Like the 32x, it added very little to the library and content and gameplay of the genesis. More money loss for sega instead of releasing the Saturn.

- however long later, Saturn was released. It was a good system, but never took off because of its high price tag, lazy arcade ports and competition from the PlayStation. Another failure.

Eventually, the Dreamcast came. Although it got its great start in the market, as it deserved, the PlayStation 2 had a kiler app from the first day - It was the cheapest DVD player on the market. DVD's were new, and the players were expensive, and the ps2 was a very cheap DVD player. The dreamcast also lacked copy protection, meaning anyone could pirate games with ease, making game sales lose money.

Although innotiave and genius, the Dreamcast failed because it lost a lot to the 32x, SegaCD and Saturn, as well as not having DVD functionality and decent copy protection. I wish it never failed so early, because it was so ahead of it's time, and you can see a lot of resembilence in Xbox from Dreamcast.

[tomford]

sega did not keep up and produce a next gen console to compete well with the other consoles in the console wars, we have 3 consoles and in my opinion only 2 ones that matter, ps4, x-box and the wii. sega is gone and so is atari

[Vens]

So back when I was a child (secondary school), my uncle owns a sega dreamcast. I was jealous because he wouldn't let me play his dreamcast. I wanted to play Shenmue but he said it wasn't for kids. After the released of playstation 1, game producers did no longer produce games for dreamcast. What happened? Why did they stop producing console?

You mean after the release of Playstation 2? Because Dreamcast came after Playstation.

It was great. Quake 3 deathmatch with others...again, on a console? In the 90s? Never heard of before.

Sounds terrible. Wouldn't play Quake on console even if you'd pay me.

[Hugop]

Sega lost the 16bit war, had a fight with Sega Japan and had no success with the portable console. Most good games have been made in Japan where Sega had no success but Nintendo.

Sega was supposed to make the best console for Europe and Nintendo for Japan, but Sega of America and Sega of Japan were making 2different consoles at the same time, then Sony introduced Play Station. Sega did great games, that is why they gave up with hardware and continued with software development.