My Love-Hate Relationship with the Consoles

[freedquaker]

Dante9 said:

I have a very similar background, my path was Commodore 64 -> Amiga -> Playstation 1,2,3,4,5.
I am appalled, Sir, that you would single out and blame Sony for the demise of the Dreamcast. I submit that Sega themselves were the architects of their own doom, by making questionable business decisions in a highly competitive market. I think they were already losing the battle against Nintendo anyways. Perhaps their time simply came to an end.
As for your other comments about consoles being PC-like, hot and bulky, I find those to be irrelevant and superficial complaints that have little to do with what actually matters; the games and the experience of playing them.
However, this is all in good fun, no offense given or taken.

I'm not quite singling out Sony for the demise of Sega as it was a result of multiple factors such as bad business decisions, failure to understand the demise of the arcades and the shifting focus to the story driven console games, as well as the long term rivalry against Nintendo that left Sega badly wounded, but without the right perspective and perfect information, as an 80s teenager, or at early tweens, all i saw was who pulled the trigger.