Mandalore76 said:
Not wrong actually. The Dreamcast has a Worldwide Discontinued date of March 31, 2001. That's over 7 months before the Xbox launched in November later that year. In fact, the announcement was made by Sega on January 31, 2001. Any games made for the Dreamcast after the official discontinuation date are irrelevant to the fact that it's manufacturer had long since acknowledged that it had already withdrawn from the console market. Therefore, it's not inaccurate to say that the Dreamcast never actually competed in the same marketplace with the Xbox. |
If the issue of generation was simply determined by dates of manufacture, it would be cut and dry which console was in which generation and this thread wouldn't even exist. I say it goes by what games appear on each console to determine generation. The switch has Valkyria Chronicles 4, Dragon Quest XI, etc. just like PS4 and/or Xbone do. WiiU had Ninja Gaiden 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, etc. just like PS3 and Xbox 360 did. Dreamcast had Skies of Arcadia, Evolution, etc. just like Gamecube did. Dead or Alive 2, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue 2, Space Channel 5 Part II, etc. also appeared on Dreamcast as well as PS2 or Xbox.
