Yeah I understand they were all 6th gen. My point was just that it doesn’t really make sense to blame the Dreamcast failure on its timing. Dates also matter:

Late 98 was release in Japan Late 99 was release worldwide Early 2000 was PS2 in Japan Late 2000 was PS2 worldwide Early 2001 Dreamcast was killed Late 2001/Early 2002 Gamecube and Xbox

The meme makes it look like the Dreamcast popped up late, but that was not the reason for it’s demise at all. PlayStation dominating the market, as you mentioned, was probably the biggest one. People knew the PS2 was around the corner and the Dreamcast had barely been out in the EU by the time the PS2 was strutting it’s stuff on the Japanese market.