Rest in Peace, Dreamcast
By Jeff Ryan
01.31.01 08:21
(Katrillion) -- The rumors of Sega's death have been, well, kinda accurate. Sega said on Wednesday that it would stop making Dreamcast in March, and would reduce those already on the shelf to a hundred bucks.
But that doesn't mean it's over for Sega. Video game companies have always made their real money on software -- not the hardware. And Sega's always been known for good games. Now it'll make those games for Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, and others.
Sega's not going out of the hardware business completely, either. It's working with Pace Micro Technologies on the Games Gateway, which is a set-top box that will allow users to download DC games and store them on an internal hard drive. It would have the ability to put 60 of the DC's 350 games in rotation at any given time, and the games would take three minutes to download on a broadband system