1UP is featuring an excellent — yet very eerie — article comparing the Dreamcast to the Xbox 360. The article features 23 points which the two consoles have in common: from not supporting the future formats for movie playback (DVD for the Dreamcast and HD-DVD for the 360) to having the same guy running the marketing department (Peter Moore the Xbox 360 marketing boss also worked on Dreamcast marketing).
The similarities could be seen as wild coincidences, but when you’re about to launch a console that will cost your company billions of dollars, you don’t want it associated with one of the biggest product failures in recent video game history. Whilst the two consoles share a lot of similarities, there are also some important differences. For example the original Xbox was not a failure, unlike the Sega Saturn which signalled the beginning of the end for the games giant that is (was?) Sega.
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3145154