What made Microsoft succeed where Sega could not?

[walsufnir]

spurgeonryan said:

walsufnir said:
Wow, didn't notice this thread so far. But the reason is the same as it is for Sony: Both entered the market with a lot more money than Sega. Sony is the main reason why Sega failed in the end because they had no chance to compete against the PSX with Saturn. Dreamcast was a nice console but their end was already at the horizon after they developed two different Dreamcasts (technically different).

Two different Dreamcasts? I do not remember this.

http://segaretro.org/Sega_Dreamcast_Development

They were also planning a 3dfx-version, called "black belt". MS was also in that boat and perhaps this all went eventually to the first Xbox ;)