Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "George Bain" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: MCV BREAKING NEWS Sega kills off Dreamcast Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:42:40 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 20 Message-ID: <94kjuq$c2g2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 43.194.204.241 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 www.mcvuk.com Sega kills off Dreamcast Huge losses have forced Sega to pull out of the hardware market, with production of Dreamcast hardware ceasing by the end of March. A fourth straight year of losses, mainly caused by Dreamcast, have forced the company into a radical rethink of its strategy. The machine will continue to be marketed throughout 2001, halting sales once the inventory is exhausted. Software will continue to be developed for the machine by Sega in the mean time. The future for Sega lies as a software company on other formats and it already has five PlayStation 2 titles in the pipeline and two for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance machine, due out in March.