>>105895503
>Disc swapping was bad for the discs and the drive
Lies.
My 1001 PSX still works. ... maybe. Haven't taken it out in like 20 years.
Just put a bit of tape on the lid button and it was super easy to swap the disc.

>>105894058
PS2 didn't kill anyone.
Dreamcast died because SEGA was already dying before the Dreamcast was released and the lack of publishers backing the console hurt the stream of revenue they had been hoping to get after the Saturn's failure. The Dreamcast launch itself was one of the biggest ever at the time and they also dominated game sales for months and months, yet that wasn't enough to keep SEGA in the console industry.
SoA releasing the Dreamcast with a modem included bit them really hard, because that was another added cost and a source of revenue that they were expecting to get.
Plus, the dotcombubble was beginning to whobble and sega.net wasn't all it was cracking up to be.

All this happened before the PS2 was release. Even if the PS2 hadn't sold like gangbusters, SEGA couldn't support its own console anymore. SEGA met its sales goals and still killed the Dreamcast, because their arcade business was failing too.