The non-commitment to DVDs later resulted in ramifications for Sega when competitors such as Sony's PlayStation 2 came to market the Dreamcast was unable to offer DVD movie playback when the general public began switching from VHS to DVD, and its games were unable to take advantage of the DVD's higher storage capacity and lower cost. Throughout the console's lifespan, Sega promised compatibility with DVDs in some form, even showing off a DVD player for it at E3 2000, but it never came to fruition. While the higher-capacity DVD-ROM format was available during the console's development, its then-fledgling technology was deemed too expensive to implement at the time. The Dreamcast itself features regional lockout, only playing games released within its predetermined region however, the lockout is circumventable via modchip installation, boot discs, or cheat discs such as Datel's Action Replay. All licensed games for the Dreamcast were released on the GD-ROM format, a proprietary CD-based optical disc format jointly developed by Sega and Yamaha Corporation that was capable of storing up to 1 GB of data.
The fifth and final home console produced by Sega, the Dreamcast is the successor to the Sega Saturn, whose commercial failure prompted the company to release it only four years after its predecessor's initial release.
The first of the sixth generation of video game consoles, it was released in Japan on November 27, 1998, in North America on September 9, 1999, and in Europe on October 14, 1999. The Dreamcast is a home video game console developed and sold by Sega.
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