>>11858640
>Sega never had any plans to shutdown dreamcast until it started failing as a result of piracy
Six months of barely functioning piracy doesn't kill a console overnight you stupid fuck. The PSP had just as much piracy of software and it didn't kill it.
>Stop pulling shit out of your ass without proof.
Gladly.
>Sega was already considering merging with Bandai in 1997
>DC copy protection wasn't broken until June 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20141016220612/https://medium.com/@michaelgapper/land-of-the-free-467f0eb2f395
>Sega already had a massive revenue drop by 1996
https://mdshock.com/2021/04/14/segas-financial-troubles-an-analysis-of-export-revenue-1991-1998/
These incidents alone show how fucked Sega was and how the Dreamcast was a hail mary pass at best.