

300 thousand consoles immediately went to buyers, who have pre-ordered them, and one day after it was sold about 230 thousand consoles. Start of sales turned out to be extremely successful. The Sega Dreamcast in assembly already included a modem or network adapter for the Internet, and among the programs for the console appeared a browser. For the firmware was chosen operating system Windows CE. The development was attended by famous world leaders such as Hitachi, Microsoft, Video Logic, Nec and Yamaha. Since the October it began selling in Europe. Worth to mention that the release date was unique – September 9, 1999, which is looks like 09/09/99. Development began in 1997 (originally under the name Katana), and the first batch of consoles (under the name of Dreamcast) went on sale in November 1998, the year after it began selling in the United States. Dreamcast is the first representative of the sixth-generation consoles from Sega developers.
