Dreamcast demise?

[Melistrius]

There are many aspects that led to DCs death. As mentioned the PS2 was just hyped and accounted everywhere long before it's release. And many details of the DC like the awesome online-features just never reached the customer, they all just knew that there will be PS2 one day, with DVD player and backward compability and that was far more interresting. They had nearly no big RPGs and that meant death in Japan and with their "small" userbase and the quite easy way to pirate the Games they barely got the money back they invested into games. Like Shenmue (please Sega bring a Compilation for Wii ^^). They just failed with nearly everything they tried. The early ambitions just dried up too fast and ended in a weak, half-baked product like most of their games today. But at least they made the right decision to stay Game-only because sometimes they have their masterpieces (hopefully) and I guess I would miss some of them :) (Come on, bring me Shenmue Trilogy and Ecco, can't play them since my DC is broken^^) But the DC never really died, until today there are still many Game-Releases