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theprof00 on 25 March 2015
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shikamaru317 said:
DialgaMarine said:

Actually, one of the lesser known facts is that MS was mainly responsible for the death of Dreamcast when they pretty much killed SegaNet after Sega outsourced it through them. There's more to it than that, that I'll have to look up, but there's a reason why the original XBox and it's original controller looked almost identical to the Dreamcast design. MS had a much bigger hand than most people know. Sony simply had the more appealing console that consumers wanted more. 

It's my understanding that MS and Sega were in talks to partner up and have Xbox be backwards compatible with Dreamcast, but those talks fell apart after Sega's President died. The partnership conntinued on in some form though, with several Sega games being exclusive to the original Xbox. Sega of America President Peter Moore listed the PS2 as the ultimate cause of Dreamcast's demise:

"We had a tremendous 18 months. Dreamcast was on fire – we really thought that we could do it. But then we had a target from Japan that said we had to make x hundreds of millions of dollars by the holiday season and shift x millions of units of hardware, otherwise we just couldn't sustain the business. So on January 31st, 2001, we said Sega is leaving hardware. We were selling 50,000 units a day, then 60,000, then 100,000, but it was just not going to be enough to get the critical mass to take on the launch of PS2. Somehow I got to make that call, not the Japanese. I had to fire a lot of people; it was not a pleasant day."[5]

It all makes sense now. Someone within MS killed Sega's president. It is confirmed by the prophecy