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[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sega had a chance to hold on to enough market dominance to remain as the third console player even after this, but then their fate was sealed at the very instant they decided to put a CD-ROM drive in the Dreamcast instead of a DVD drive.

[-] delmain@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Dreamcast was released at a bad time, DVD components were still expensive so if they'd included a DVD drive it would have provided some future-proofing, but the console would have been even more expensive than it already was

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