@GC-161 I wouldn't say that the Dreamcast tanked "Wii U style". It wasn't comparable to the Wii U at all, since it was a different situation and cause altogether. Sega made completely different mistakes which ultimately resulted in them leaving the hardware arena, but their troubles had already started during the 16 bit era, when they were releasing add-on after add-on, angering the fans, and when these were just on the market, they released the Saturn, and then dropped that WAY too soon to put the Dreamcast on the market, which massively angered a heck of a whole lot of people AGAIN.

But it was a great console, which was WAY ahead of its time, and although the Dreamcast only had a short life cycle (from 27th Nov 1998 to 31st March 2001), it actually did FAR better than the Wii U relative to the numbers, because in that short time span Sega sold 10.6 million systems (it took the Wii U 4 years and 2 months to reach a grand total of 13.6 million, so that's FAR slower) and there were a total of 636 games released for it (745 total for the Wii U, but many were eShop titles and only 392 titles were retail/disc titles), and most of them were all arcade type titles, so the system truly was the arcade gamer's dream come true, and the games were also very innovative for the time.

So, it's fair to say that if the Dreamcast would have had a longer life span, it would have beat the Wii U easily, and not just relatively, as it has already done, but also numerically.

To this day, I'm still the proud owner of a Sega Dreamcast (in perfect working order), and thanks to a VGA box, the picture quality is brilliant, even on modern TV's, and quite a few games are still highly enjoyable to play, and even hold up graphically, even though they aren't in HD.

The Megadrive/Genesis certainly had a lot of great games, but most of them could also be found on the SNES, and in Europe on the Amiga and Atari home computers, and after that when the Saturn arrived, that also had quite a few great games, but the Dreamcast was not only an evolution of all that, it was simply THE ultimate console back in the day, and it also improved on many of the titles that had already been on the Saturn, making them into real classics, many of which are still known and loved today.

And to such an extent, that many of these titles (in their original form) even survived the console itself, and got rebooted, or got sequels on quite a few other systems after the Dreamcast was gone. (for example the Dreamcast HD collection on the Xbox 360, and also some standalone Dreamcast games being released on both the Xbox 360 and PS3)

So yeah, I'm not that surprised that it came out on top in a popularity poll concerning Sega systems.

And it wasn't just popular with gamers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast#Reception_and_legacy

P.S.

Sorry for the wall of text. Fond memories and all that...