Stories that EA Sports said they would only release their games on the Dreamcast if they were the only sports games that got released were rife.
The Dreamcast almost didn’t have a chance. The smart kid on the block was the PlayStation, and two years later, the PS2. Cozying up to Microsoft to create an operating system along the lines of Windows CE edition looked like being a bold move that ultimately, had it gone through might well have meant Sega would have had a much more active role in the later Microsoft Xbox.Ī last-minute switcheroo from Sega management though, saw them more or less ditch Microsoft and go with a system where the OS was self-contained on the game discs.Ī variety of other fabled management choices, coupled with the fact that after the Sega-CD and the Saturn, people were just a bit fed up with what Sega was doing, ultimately did for the console. Its expensive components ensuring a high-price that Sega struggled to justify. The Sega Saturn, at the time, certainly not now, had been regarded as a bit of a lame duck. It’s US and European releases wouldn’t arrive for a further 12 months, leaving Sega fans the only option of importing one if they wanted to play the latest tech. I remember playing it for the first time at the Tokyo Game Show that year.
The Sega Dreamcast first emerged in September 1998 in Japan.
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