Sega was broke and developers hated them. Hardware was zero percent of their problem.
… okay, dead easy piracy thanks to karaoke CDs probably didn’t help.
But the Dreamcast crammed a ton of high-energy games into a very short lifespan, mostly from Sega themselves, because they’d burned out all goodwill throughout the 90s. They just barely survived the Playstation eating everyone’s lunch. They knew it wouldn’t happen twice.
Sega was broke and developers hated them. Hardware was zero percent of their problem.
… okay, dead easy piracy thanks to karaoke CDs probably didn’t help.
But the Dreamcast crammed a ton of high-energy games into a very short lifespan, mostly from Sega themselves, because they’d burned out all goodwill throughout the 90s. They just barely survived the Playstation eating everyone’s lunch. They knew it wouldn’t happen twice.