That depends on what market you were in.

In North America, the Dreamcast launched exactly 4 years (to the day) after the PS1, 3 years after the N64, and just a measly year before the significantly more powerful PS2.

It didn't help that Sony was (and still is) good at the hype machine.

OK, lets look at the current generation (well... current because the WiiU is out) and previous 3 generations.

Current:
WiiU: Weaker hardware than its competitors, but only slightly cheaper than the announced launch prices for the other two consoles. Isn't doing so well at the moment. Third-party developers are hesitant to support it.
Xbox One: May flop due to marketing mistakes by Microsoft and their insistence that the Kinect is mandatory.
PS4. Current predicted winner of the next console generation thanks to mistakes MS made with the Xbox One and the tepid reception of the WiiU.

Previous:
Wii: Weaker hardware than its competitors, but a low price to match. Managed to pull third-party developers back in. Outsold everyone else.
Xbox 360: Did pretty decently throughout, but got burned a bit by the Red Ring Of Death issue.
PS3: Flopped at launch due to high prices (cost more than two times the Wii's price) and new unusual programming architecture. Managed to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the last few years of this generation.

2000-2005 gen:
Xbox: New vendor. Didn't do that great. Only killer end-user feature over the PS2 was Xbox Live.
PS2: Harder to program for than the PS1, but still managed to keep massive third-party support. Outsold everyone else.
GameCube: Decent hardware but lacked third party support due to previous generation. The loss of Rare and Silicon Knights during this time frame only exacerbated this problem.
Dreamcast: Didn't do so hot, Sega left the market about halfway through this generation.

1995-2000 gen:
Saturn: Biggest flop of the generation. In part because of Sega's braindead strategy of releasing the 32x, a competing "32-bit" addon for the Genesis. Also cost $100 more than the PS1 and launched with no warning.
PS1: Easiest console to develop for. Launched $100 cheaper than the Saturn. Outsold everyone else.
N64: Sticking with cartridges lost Nintendo the majority of its third-party support.. This came back to bite them in the following generation.

I'm not going to address Nintendo's handhelds simply because they've dominated the market since their introduction in 1989 and have essentially kept the company running even when it was doing poorly.

Pretty much the only good Wii titles are first-party titles.

Actually, living in the real MI (Michigan)... hey Canada, can we join you guys up there? Maybe merge us into Ontario?

I can't find the numbers, but I recall that China exports more goods to the United States than any other country. Which is where they get the money to import goods from Germany in the first place.

You had me up until said you "all developers".

Developers need the Java Developers Kit, which notably doesn't prompt you to install toolbars. Nor does the JRE installer on the Java developer site (which used to be java.sun.com).

Unfortunately, unless you know to grab the installer from there...

For good or bad... Java's younger cousin C# / .NET.

So, what does your code do if an end-user passes -1 which would get stored in your unsigned value? And as a reminder, your argument is that you don't have to do bounds checking for the lower bound.

So... your correcting him by pointing out that you are using an MSPRP $54.99 controller instead of an MSRP $39.99 controller?

Except in PHP where certain functions change their behavior depending on what values are set in an .ini file.

There are two version of the Surface tablets. The first is the Surface RT that uses an ARM chip and runs Windows RT... and can't run existing Windows applications. The second is the Surface Pro that uses an Intel chip and runs Windows 8.

The smart thing to do would be to only make Surface Pros for the new models. Unfortunately, they've decided to make new versions of both.

The Surface 2 replaces the Surface RT and the Surface Pro 2 replaces the Surface Pro.

Since this happens if the owner starts playing any game, this doesn't really address what the GP was asking about. One player will still be logged off.

There are a few other places that sell you keys to activate on Steam. The biggest being Amazon...

Steam items on Amazon are marked with the text "[Online Game Code]". Right now, the Bioshock Triple Pack is on sale for half of what Steam sells Bioshock Infinite for, let alone the other two games with it. When you buy it, it'll give you either a single Steam code for all 3 games or separate Steam codes for each game.

Note: Bioshock Infinite is listed as [Download] game, but it also mentioned Steam is required for it... which is because Bioshock Infinite is a SteamWorks game, so you still have to activate it on Steam.

According to my (Windows) Task Manager, Steam is currently taking up 12MB of RAM sitting in my system tray.

I know the Windows Task Manager's accuracy isn't always the best, but... were the numbers you quoting from before Steam switched to Webkit in 2010?

Eternal Darkness, Golden Sun, Xenoblade, and Baten Kaitos are all non-Nintendo titles. They were developed by Silicon Knights, Camelot, Monolith Soft, and tri-Crescendo/Monolith Soft respectively. You really need to stop confusing games published by Nintendo with games produced by Nintendo.

Heck, Baten Kaitos wasn't even published by Nintendo anywhere but Australia... Namco published it everywhere else.

Of the remaining ones, only one of them is less than a decade old (Wii Sports).