Did the Dreamcast end the Sega console for good? I don't understand why they stopped...

They stopped making consoles because no one made any games for them, and therefore not enough people bought the systems. This means they didn't make enough of a profit (if any) to make console development a viable option. Believe me, if it profited them to continue making consoles, there'd be a shiny new next-gen sega system on the market right now.

Just basic economics explains it, I believe.

Damn I hate it when good things disapeer...

If you look in the right places, namely used CD stores from what I've seen, you can find Sega, Nintendo, even Atari consoles and games.

Any names that are recognizable?

I go to Disc Replay. I don't know if that's a well known store or not, but that's where I saw the consoles and games at.

If not, then if there's a local store around where you live, you could try there.

sega was the best but the downfall was that sega saturn cd thing I had, then came the dreamcast much better a little ahead of its time but a good system. I still plug it in if im feeling a little retro and want to play some old games a friend burned for me that are old sega and nintendo games its great. But I still think sega is still making and helping in the making of games.

Stop making consoles, but they still make games. I haven't brought a Sega console since the Saturn.

Around where I live, there is a vendor at a local flea market and he tried to sell the next gen stuff, but can't escape the older systems.. He has mostly Segas, Original NES's, and Atari 2600.. He has 2 locations in the flea market alone, on top of a regular video game store.. Tons and Tons and Tons, of Sega, NES, systems.. He has to have atleast 1 of every NES games..

Sega was on top of the world in the early 90's They were the premiere at-home video game company at the time...

Where did they go?

Well, you started to see a shift from Genesis to Super Nintendo in the mid-90's. Genesis really didn't have enough exclusive games; with Nintendo you saw good series pop out like the Donkey Kong Country series, a ton of unique, masterpiece-caliber RPGs, etc...

So this kind of put Sega in a hole.

You then saw the Sega CD pop-up. It didn't succeed. Niether did the Sega 32x. Two potential Genesis add-on's flopped. The hole gets deeper.

They invested a lot in the Saturn, but they didn't see good results. I'd say the reason it failed was because of Sony, and Playstation. One of the key figures is that Saturn was $400 when it came out, while Playstation was "only" $299... that's a big difference in price. It really was horrible start.... Playstation sold 100,000 units in its first swing in America... contrasly, Saturn sold 80,000 units from its May release until Playstation's release (which wasn't until September).

They were in debt and released the Dreamcast, and that really didn't pan out either. A lot of people speculate that Dreamcast was ill-fated, do to the fact that Sega was on a string of flop consoles/accessories (32x, Sega CD, Saturn)...

So where did Sega go? They didn't leave, they just got out of the console market. That has shifted them from a Nintendo-caliber powerhouse to a relatively mediocre game-making company...

Being a Genesis boy growing up, it is kinda sad that they're gone.

The Dreamcast was actually a very good system that died only because Sega had screwed themselves over in the past. I mean, just look at the Dreamcast's launch - it had like 30 games on launch day alone which included Sonic Adventure, House of the Dead 2, Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, and Crazy Taxi. No other system I can think of got off to nearly such a great start...and yet, they lived on while the Dreamcast died.