For this Sega part of the website I will only be talking about 3 consoles from Sega and that is Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Dreamcast.

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis	Type: Video game console Generation: Fourth Generation Units sold: 29 million Media: ROM cartridge Best-selling game: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (6 million) Description: The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis is a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988 and in North America in 1989. The Mega Drive is part of the fourth generation era of consoles, and was a direct competitor of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With over 29 million units sold, it became Sega's most successful console.
Sega Saturn	Type: Video game console Generation: Fifth Generation Units sold: 9.5 million Media: CD-ROM, CD+G Best-selling game: Virtua Fighter 2 (1.7 million) Description: The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit video game console and was basically an epic fail.
Sega Dreamcast	Type: Video game console Generation: Sixth Generation Units sold: 10.6 million Media: CD, 1.2 GB GD-ROM, DVD Best-selling game: Sonic Adventure (2.5 million) Description: The Dreamcast is a video game console made by Sega, and is the successor to the Sega Saturn. An attempt to recapture the console market with a next-generation system. It was released in late 1998, sixteen months before the PlayStation 2 and three years before the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox. The Dreamcast is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles. Dreamcast was widely hailed as ahead of its time, and is still held in high regard for pioneering online console gaming. Sega discontinued the Dreamcast in March 2001, and withdrew entirely from the console hardware business.

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