Sunday, 18 March 2012

End of production

On January 31, 2001, Sega appear that they were alternate Dreamcast assembly by March of that year.1 The aftermost North American absolution was NHL 2K2, which was appear in February 2002. With SEGA announcement no affairs to advance a next-generation almsman to Dreamcast, this was Sega's aftermost attack into the home animate business. According to Bernie Stolar, above President and CEO of Sega of America, the Dreamcast was discontinued because the fresh armchair of Sega capital the aggregation to focus on software.22

Sega Europe connected to abutment the Dreamcast until mid 2002, with BigBen Interactive publishing the aftermost accumulation of PAL titles such as Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles, Cannon Spike, Heavy Metal: Geomatrix, Razor Freestyle Scooter and Conflict Zone 5 During the afterward years, unreleased amateur like Propeller Arena, Hellgate, and Half-Life were leaked to the Internet in about completed, playable forms.citation needed

Although assembly of the Dreamcast concluded in 2001, Sega of Japan connected affairs refurbished systems and absolution fresh amateur until 2007. Many of the amateur were initially developed for Sega's NAOMI arcade hardware, including Sega's final first-party Dreamcast game, Sonic Team's Puyo Puyo Fever, appear on February 24, 2004.6

The aftermost Dreamcast units were awash through the Sega Direct analysis of Japan in aboriginal 2006. These refurbished units were arranged with Radilgy6 and a buzz card. The aftermost Dreamcast amateur appear by Sega of Japan were the 2007 releases Trigger Heart Exelica and Karous.6

Three added NAOMI amateur Exzeal, Illmatic Envelope: Illvelo and Mamonoro were declared to be ported to the Dreamcast, about Sega abruptly absitively to abandon the assembly of GD-ROM's.23

The Dreamcast continues to be accurate by homebrew developers. Thousands of freeware and accessible antecedent applications accept been appear back the end of production. Even afterwards 2007, fresh bartering amateur were appear (now on CD-ROM instead of GD-ROM and after official SEGA license), best conspicuously Rush Rush Rally Racing and Aftermost Hope.

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