Sega's Dreamcast sets stage for new game battle
Tom Foremski
In what is expected to be a major consumer electronics product
featuring UK produced graphics technology, Sega said it has sold
all 150,000 units of its Dreamcast video games console in Japan.
The 128 bit Dreamcast system features graphics processor technology
from UK based Viewlogic and is expected to become a mass market
product when it is released in Europe and the US in the third
quarter of 1999.
Dreamcast uses a fast 200MHz SH RISC microprocessor from Hitachi
and it is the first games platform to use Microsoft's Windows CE
operating system.
Sega says that it plans to produce at least 500,000 Dreamcast units
by the end of this year. Dreamcast will challenge market leader
Sony with its PlayStation, and Nintendo which has a 64-bit games
system.