There’s a lot to criticize about Microsoft’s multiplatform “Everything is an Xbox” switch. Some are even comparing them to SEGA.
Anybody who was there at the time knows it’s about as inaccurate as you can get. The Dreamcast is one of the greatest consoles ever made.
It’s exclusives ooze style and cohesion. Whether it’s Shenmue or Sonic Adventure, you can tell it’s a SEGA game, and a Dreamcast game too.
But none of that mattered, because the Dreamcast was dead before it arrived. The SEGA Saturn, and all the fighting between east and west, had made one of the greatest consoles ever made a non-starter.
Then people found out you could burn discs, pop them in the console and it’d just play. The dead got deader. SEGA, primarily a gaming company, pivoted to third party because it was the only way they were going to survive.