Ill start with the "fact" that Sega consoles die fast. They did, but not because it was something that Sega wanted to do. They have always been "number two", meaning that they have needed to shift their resourses and support quickly to the next gen to gain some ground. Any 100M+ selling Sega console would have seen as long support as PSX or NES.
Those videos about Dreamcast were good, but a little shallow. I don't think that they went far enough in the past to see where it all started.
There was nothing wrong in the Dreamcast itself, it was nearly perfect as a gaming console, reasons that led into it's fail happened before DC:s release and i would pick up 3 things that had the most effect to it's failure.
PS2, it was finally Dreamcasts deathblow with its DVD drive, CPU:s higher clockcycles and clever marketing (although, Dreamcast was gamers choice from those two).
Piracy, the thing that made PSX so popular, hurt DC badly because of installbase was too small to support developers along the piracy.
32X and Saturn, i see this as the main reason for Sega to lose its established fanbase, at that time it was bigger than ever. 32X was killed to help the Saturn gain ground and developer support and this really pissed off the fans. Eventually there were big overlap between Saturn and PSX owners, propably pretty much everyone who had Saturn had PSX eventually and this makes changing the hardware a lot easier.
Sadly Dreamcast died, i would change Sony and M$ to Sega and Atari at any day. The industry would be better than it is today.
But as its name tells you, it was the beginning of the end, Dreamcast sounds like something with similar background like Final Fantasy.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
