If the Sega Dreamcast survived.

In the early 2000's Sega Dreamcast died mainly do to chip shortages from Microsoft. For this Sonic suffered the worst and Sega slowly became less and less relevant.

But what if this never happened? If Dreamcast kept moving until 2007 world wide? Just imagine a thriving Dreamcast from 2001 through 2005/7?

SALES

Do to Sega's undying support of the Dreamcast. Dreamcast by the end of it's life span would sell 10 million units by 2002 and 19 million units by units by 2004 do to aggressive marketing. Either way I think it will for some reason be much less than the Gamecube.

XBOX

There would will likely be no Xbox because Microsoft was too busy doing it's own thing and making chips for a failing console. This is only speculation

SONIC AND OTHER GAMES

Sonic would flourish exponentially. With the other platforms out of the picture Sega would have pride in Sonic. We would most likely see Heroes or even Shadow on DC.

There might even be fully 3D remakes of Sonic 12,3& knuckles.

There would be no Yakuza on the Dreamcast or Yakuza at all what so over.

Shemnue 2 would probably not come out

Any porting from Sega would be PC exclusive.

Absolutely no Sega AGES on PS2.

There would be no Sonic ports to Gamecube.

Sega would eventually port popular Saturn games. Such as Nights into Dreams.

LEGALITY

There would be much less ports. Sega would have to do lots of anti-piracy measures because games where easy to rip. But this is too late because all their best games where being stolen.

MARKETING

Sega's Marketing would still be in your face but less. People would wear Dreamcast merch in 2003 and 2004. Kids in middle and elementary school would play Dreamcast with each other.

Japanese people would be going wild over the Dreamcast as well as the rest of South East Asia.

GRAPHICS AND TECH

Big corporations would have to low ball for the Dreamcast by making downgraded ports with either lower polygon counts/resolutions, clean yet empty locations, or low frame rates. Dreamcast would be treated like a portable or the Wii or WiiU . Making big companies to work with small studios to rush out a Finding Nemo game. This means less Dreamcast games. Less AAA development. You will see more PC ports of Unreal games.

Sega will come up with their own slip with the answer to the chip shortages.

NEXT GEN

After that Sega's next gen attempts would be there. During 2004 Sega plans it's next attack after several wins would to make Project Infinite.

Sega would release The Sega Infinite by Christmas 2005 or 2006. With a slick beautiful design with lacquer and blue LED lighting. I don't know what the controller will be like but the controller will be the love child of a Saturn controller and the Xbox controller.

There will be Downloadable games, a slick interface, Movies, TV shows and more.

There will be a GVD as a response to the Blue Ray of the PS3 but will fail to get off the ground but play DVD none the less.

There would be less layoffs.

Tons of online support.

Sega Infinite will be running on a 256 bit bus with 512 MB of Vram and an architecture similar to that of the Sega Nu. With fast CPUs with 820 MHZ.

Sega having the power over it's exclusives would come out very high quality.

The Sega Infinite would be more affordable than the PS3 and developer friendly. Far more affordable to.

Sonic 06 would be better and have more time delaying it until 2007 to be safe. Eventually with motion controls.

The Infinite would last from 2005/6- until 2018 when all support would go away. Who knows where Sega would go in the 8th gen but probably the same terrible fat that the PS4 and Xbox One went at launch.

But this is all speculation.

@Alexander2cents: Super Monkey Ball would be remembered as the game that saved the Dreamcast. Plus we finally would have gotten home ports of Daytona 2 and SCUD Racer.

However, this world would have no F-Zero GX, and that is a world I would not want to live in.

@girlusocrazy: I don't know, Nintendo abandoned a lot of stuff after that era like Waverace, 1080, Pilot Wings. They shifted focus to bigger sellers with broader appeal.

With Xbox out of the way, Sega would lead the way with online games and be a bit ahead of Sony. But console games as a whole would be less centered around online gaming without the initial push from Xbox live way back in 2002 or 2003.

Since most Dreamcast games would not require broadband, only modem, online games would need to be developed with modems in mind. There would also be one less online game for Gamecube because you would not be able to play Phantasy Star Online on it.

Interesting. I would have preferred to see it stay Nintendo/Sony/Sega rather than Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft. Microsoft introduced pay-to-play online and has always had the least interesting IP catalog of the console makers to me.

No Idea.

I think they Gave UP in right time.

So PS2 was GTA, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, God of Wars, Metal Gear etc....

Until Nintendo only lost money with game cube.

Xbox being gone is interesting though Sega probably would have gone out of business if they made it passed the 2001.

If Dreamcast survived I think Xbox wont enter the space or if they enter, probably fail like Apple. Sega meanwhile probably will cease to exist in around 2006 cause they bleeding so much money by then trying to fight the monster called PS2.

Games industry would have a lot more imaginative titles than we have today.

Sega were great risk takers when it came to titles and did things no one else would try.

They actually were at the top of the world after the mega drive but managed to screw it all up.