Anyone have an "accurate" history on the Dreamcast and how it died?

AFAIK, it is a very nice console. Other than that, I don't remember much of it being talked about.

A quick search on "how it died" turns up all sorts of theories which is hard to selectively pick the right ones. 

Sega invested a large amount into the DreamCast and Sega Saturn video game consoles which both failed miserably. Sony is responsible for the demise through its successful Playstation console brand that dominated the market for 12 years and within 6 years it had eliminated Sega from the market.

Playstation brandname KILLED it the day (the hour, the second) the PS2 was revealed.
Since this moment, hardcore wanted to buy the PS2 with the "amazing" "Emotion Engine" (lol).
Also, the DVD player helped the PS2.

@libellule

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Three words:

Tekken tech demo

There were many reasons for the Dreamcast failing and forcing Sega to go software-only. The most important were probably the mistakes they did with the Saturn hurting their credibility, the mistakes they did with the Dreamcast itself, their poor financial situation preventing any effective recovery, and people buying into Sony's hype for the PS2.

It's a shame because Sega actually did everything right with the system and still lost.

For a long and accurate history of Sega I reccomend this site:
http://www.segacd.org/segabase/index.html

Sam Pettus (aka "the Scribe") did a huge job to write all this Sega's goodness.

Yes, here goes. Its called the PS2. The same thing that killed the Xbox and Gamecube.

you all make it soundlike it's something to blame sony about
but the just did what everyone does and has done

Back when, the Sega Dreamcast's slogan was "It's Thinking". When the PS2 was released, I imagine it was thinking "WTF!". The Dreamcast was released in 1999, and was a much better console than the PS2 until 2001. Sega just made too many enemies and burned too many gamers by the time the DC came out.