Part of the job in creating a console is to appeal to 3rd party devs though, you can't put the blame on them. It's likely that since the ps1 had a huge user bas

Part of the job in creating a console is to appeal to 3rd party devs though, you can't put the blame on them. It's likely that since the ps1 had a huge user base it was just a safe bet to develop for the ps2 over the Dreamcast. And I guess you can argue that Nintendo had dropped the ball at this point, but Sega hadn't done anything good since the Genesis, as OP pointed out, that includes Sega CD, 32x, Game Gear and Saturn.