<story><title>The Dreamcast Legacy</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/12/22/the-dreamcast-legacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b15h0p</author><text>The article states that the Dreamcast &amp;quot;fell out of the public eye as the Nintendo 64 was released&amp;quot;. Am I missing something here? As far as I know the N64 was released more than two years before the Dreamcast&amp;#x27;s release. The Dreamcast always felt like it belonged to the PS2&amp;#x2F;Xbox&amp;#x2F;Gamecube console generation more than the PS1&amp;#x2F;N64 generation, although it was released in between generations.&lt;p&gt;Release dates:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * PlayStation 1: &amp;#x27;94&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;95
  * N64: &amp;#x27;96
  * Dreamcast: &amp;#x27;98&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;99
  * PlayStation 2: 2000
  * XBox: 2001
  * GameCube: 2001&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Comevius</author><text>They confused it with Sega Saturn, that&amp;#x27;s the one that was pushed under the bus by Nintendo 64 in 1996. Nintendo however was late to the game, the PS1 was already entrenched.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Dreamcast Legacy</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2021/12/22/the-dreamcast-legacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b15h0p</author><text>The article states that the Dreamcast &amp;quot;fell out of the public eye as the Nintendo 64 was released&amp;quot;. Am I missing something here? As far as I know the N64 was released more than two years before the Dreamcast&amp;#x27;s release. The Dreamcast always felt like it belonged to the PS2&amp;#x2F;Xbox&amp;#x2F;Gamecube console generation more than the PS1&amp;#x2F;N64 generation, although it was released in between generations.&lt;p&gt;Release dates:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * PlayStation 1: &amp;#x27;94&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;95
  * N64: &amp;#x27;96
  * Dreamcast: &amp;#x27;98&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27;99
  * PlayStation 2: 2000
  * XBox: 2001
  * GameCube: 2001&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arprocter</author><text>Article also seems confused that the NES competed against the Genesis - the Master System was Sega&amp;#x27;s 8-bit console; and no mention of the 32X or Sega&amp;#x2F;Mega CD either&lt;p&gt;iirc a big selling point of the PS2 was it could play DVDs, whereas the Dreamcast couldn&amp;#x27;t</text></comment>