Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right.

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

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

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.

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

If the Dreamcast hadn't had the misfortune of coming out during the objectively best console generation, it would have done fine - but also, if it hadn't been the latest in a series of flops (Sega CD, 32x, Saturn), then maybe the Dreamcast's failure wouldn't have driven Sega out of the console market. Sega struck gold with the Genesis and they just couldn't replicate it, RIP to a real one,

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.

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

Dreamcast is still my favorite console of all time.

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

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.....

I loved the dreamcast!

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

I really like my Dreamcast!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The only console piracy massacred