<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>titusjohnson</author><text>According to my memory of the time, the Dreamcast launched a bit too early compared to the PS2. The Dreamcast was trying to sell games and systems right when the PS2 marketing engine went into full swing. The marketing hype for PS2 was &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt;, everyone I knew was talking about how many millions of pixels it would push, how the multi-core architecture would make everything else obsolete, and of course, how it was backwards compatible with existing libraries.&lt;p&gt;I knew one guy that had a Dreamcast, everyone else saved their pennies for a PS2 and made do with their existing PS1.</text></comment>