Howdy,

Today I was doing a little research about one of my favourite PS2 games (Crazy Taxi).  I wasn't surprised to find that it was originally a port of a Dreamcast title, nor was I surprised to find that there had been a sequel on the DC.  What I did find odd was that there was a Crazy Taxi 3, which was Xbox/PC only.  And it got me thinking about other odd movements of Sega franchises after the Dreamcast collapsed.

Perhaps because I'm looking at it from the outside, it isn't as bad as it appears, but it seriously appears like Sega just scattergunned their franchises across the big 3 (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) and gave some games to one, some games to another, and the rest to the third.  You've got things like:

- Microsoft: Panzer Dragoon, Crazy Taxi 3, Jet Set Radio Future, OutRun 2, Shenmue etc.

- Sony: Yakuza, Rez (originally), Altered Beast, Ecco the Dolphin, Shining Force, Shinobi, Valkyria Chronicles etc.

- Nintendo: Sonic Adventure/Colours/Black Knight/Secret Rings, Nights, Samba De Amigo, Skies of Arcadia etc.

I mean, obviously not everyone is going to like every one of these franchises, but I'd just compare it to a similar situation for me as a Sony fan - if they became software-only and released across Microsoft/Nintendo consoles, I'd have serious trouble deciding where to go (and would probably end up getting both consoles, although it would depend on which franchises ended up where).

So, without intending to come across as rude to Sega fans: Was there an obvious direction for you to go after they left the console market?  Did you end up buying multiple conoles after the Dreamcast?  Did you ever consider buying a different console because a Sega release wasn't where you expected it to be?

Just genuinely curious :)

Im not necessarily a Sega fan, so to say. Im a Valkyria Chronicles fan.

With how Sega have handled VC, and the fanbase of the franchise. For me. Sega can burn in hell.

Microsoft got the cool ones, Nintendo the friendly ones and Sony the weird ones (not a negative weird, a positive one).
And whatever fits into all three gets released across them.

I go with Xbox 360 here because Sega was quite close with Microsoft and there are plenty of similarities. So if I only had one console instead of all 3 (to buy SEGA titles xD), it'd be the 360.

You know, that's kind of exactly how I saw it too.  At least, I thought Microsoft always got the cool ones.  I was just wondering what made Sega decide upon that.  Did MS pay for it, or was it just a decision on their part?  Was it part of an attempt to try and sell the Xbox in Japan, like they went for at the start of this generation?  I guess we'll never know.

MS inherited quite a bit of third-party stuff from the Dreamcast as well.  Metropolis City Racer (Project Gotham Racing) and Dead or Alive, among other things.  Was a pretty sweet deal for them!

I wasn't a Sega fan until the Dreamcast died. You can imagine my horror when Shenmue 2 and Jet Grind Radio went to the Xbox and all I owned was the PS2 and Gamecube!

Luckily, most of the stuff that went to other consoles were just ports of Dreamcast titles that I already owned. Now, I buy every single platform available without exception so I don't have a hard time getting my hands on what I want. It's just that, now a bunch of Sega franchises that I used to love don't even interest me anymore. The ones that do tend to go multi-platform so getting my hands on them wouldn't have been an issue, anyway.

I haven't bought any SEGA game ever since the Dreamcast died (except Total War games, but that's PC). I think Shenmue on Dreamcast was the last SEGA console game I've ever gotten.
I wasn't really a SEGA 'fan' anyway, I liked the Dreamcast and most games that came with it and it made me get a second hand Mega Drive later on with a couple of games, but that's it.

So to answer the OP's question, I went nowhere.

Yes it's been tricky to say the least.

but bying every console on the market fixes the problem.

Then it comes down to "will they make another, or HD remake of the game"

I was actually wanting more games this GEN.

Maybe SEGA was just of the opinion that Microsoft would follow their route of online gaming, audience, variety etc. (as I did. Sure, PS3 has a lot in common now)

But could have been money, of course. MS spent a lot to create the Xbox brand and there are surely lots of studios and games that they acquired just to offer big names.

Not for me I just got every system.

Not really for me. I used to be a huge SEGA fan, but Shenmue not making it to the GameCube as well as how completely awful Sonic got after the Dreamcast died completely turned me off of them. Generations and Colours were good games, but nowhere near their old masterful games when they had their own hardware. So as S.Peelman has already said, I went nowhere. I instead stopped buying.