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The Sega Dreamcast (Japanese: ドリームキャスト; code-named "Blackbelt," "Dural," and "Katana" during development) is Sega's last video game console and the successor to the company's Sega Saturn. An attempt to recapture the console market with a next-generation system, it was designed to supersede Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Nintendo 64, and although generally considered to be "ahead of its time" (literally fifteen months before the PlayStation 2 and three years before GameCube or Xbox) it failed to gather enough momentum before the release of the PlayStation 2 in March 2000. After the Dreamcast was discontinued, Sega withdrew entirely from the console hardware business.

History


When the time came to design the successor to the Sega Saturn, the new President of Sega, Shoichiro Irimajiri, took the unusual step of hiring an outsider. He hired Tatsuo Yamamoto from IBM Austin to head a skunkworks group to develop the next-generation console. However, it soon became apparent that the existing Japanese hardware group led by Hideki Sato did not want to relinquish control of hardware, and so there were two competing designs led by two different groups.

Design

A timeline of the development of the console's GPU may be found.here.

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Passamos a noite jogando Dreamcast! Wacky Race é muito foda! =D http://bit.ly/3AlTa4
carolwojtyla (Miss Wojtyla) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:10:12 -0000
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Epic fail: NBA 2K10 = gameplay choppy like playin online with a Dreamcast. Holler at me next year. Welcome home LIVE.
BumpsINF (Bumps) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:04:27 -0000
Epic fail: NBA 2K10 = gameplay choppy like playin online with a Dreamcast. Holler at me next year. Welcome home LIVE.
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Hypertension headed to the Dreamcast and all computers: TDGMods is working on a reimagining of the Blood and Bl.. http://bit.ly/4xbyk2
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