En zo gaan wij op en neer: eerst wist Gamespot te vertellen dat de Dreamcast de laatste Sega console zou worden, toen volgde Sega Web met een bericht dat het voorgaande allemaal lulkoek zou zijn ('foutje in de vertaling') en nu schrijft The Register dat het toch echt wel allemaal waar is:
Some claimed that Okawa's comments had been incorrectly translated, but according to GIA, that's exactly what he said."I will say that the future doesn't necessarily lie in the hardware business," said Okawa. "I think in the future there is the possibility of Sega becoming a software-only company...
[...] But Sega is clearly worried about the effect of PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's rather more distant N64 successor, codenamed Dolphin. And it should be. The original PlayStation did for the Sega's 16-bit MegaDrive in no uncertain terms, and has easily outsold even the technologically superior 64-bit N64. Sony is going to promote the 128-bit PlayStation 2 is going to be promoted even harder than it did the PSX, not least because the Japanese giant has in mind a much bigger role for the device than mere games console. Even without Dolphin, that's going to hard for the much smaller Sega to compete with.
Verder zou ook de dreiging dat Microsoft de console markt binnen komt wandelen een rol mee gespeeld hebben.
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