ConsolesThe Sega Dreamcast Was Right, Just Two Years Too EarlySeptember 9, 1999. Sega ran the "It's thinking" campaign and shipped a console with a built-in 56k modem when most people were still fighting their family for the phone line. The Dreamcast launched in North America that day and moved a genuinely huge number of units in its first weekend. For about a year, it looked like Sega had pulled off the comeback.
Then the PlayStation 2 was announced with a DVD player inside, and the air went out of the room.
Why the hardware still feels ahead of its ti
