Dreamcast is Sega's last video game console and the successor to the Sega Saturn. Trying to conquer again the console market with a next-generation system, it was designed to overcome the PlayStation and Nintendo 64.

Released in Japan in 1998, followed by the USA and Canada in September 99, it was the first console to have a modem, allowing checking mails and web pages.

With the looming PS2 launch in Japan, Dreamcast was largely ignored in that territory. The console had great initial success in the United States, but had trouble maintaining these results after news of the PS2's release.

Sega based too much its success on online videogames, regrettably only few games could be played on-line and although Dreamcast was released a year before the PS2, the console did not manage be leader on the market and Sega thus has to stop the production of its console on January 31st, 2001.

Since then Sega focuses on its talents of developers withdrawing entirely from the console hardware business; however, support continued in Japan where consoles were still sold and new games are still being made.