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

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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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When I was younger I showed my mom the release date 4 the dreamcast which was November I said I want it in October make it happen #thuglife
Young_Burks (Antonyo Burks) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:34:12 -0000
When I was younger I showed my mom the release date 4 the dreamcast which was November I said I want it in October make it happen #thuglife
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@RewindGaming Have you got any new Dreamcast things?
Hanging out w/my girls, coding on the AGZ game with the Co-Op Dreamcast tribute episode on in the background (http://bit.ly/4TFDR4).
RobStenzinger (Rob Stenzinger) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:18:50 -0000
Hanging out w/my girls, coding on the AGZ game with the Co-Op Dreamcast tribute episode on in the background (http://bit.ly/4TFDR4).

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