What major financial flop led to the end of the Sega Dreamcast and ultimately caused Sega to stop making game consoles altogether?

1: The founder and CEO of Sega was found to be secretly skimming money off of the top of profits, leading to widespread distrust by the public and a sharp decline in sales until they ultimately had to shut down due to making no profit.

2: A small group of employees found a way to drain all of the Sega Corporation funding accounts and flee the country with all of the money, never to be heard from again.

3: A game called Shenmue, that cost more than $70 million to make, meant that everyone who owned a Dreamcast needed to buy two copies of the game just for Sega to make back the money they had spent to develop it-which didn't happen.

4: A game called Katamari Damacy that carried a virus that would infect any console that it was played on forced Sega to spend millions of dollars in refunds and bankrupted the company.

3: A game called Shenmue, that cost more than $70 million to make, meant that everyone who owned a Dreamcast needed to buy two copies of the game just for Sega to make back the money they had spent to develop it-which didn't happen.

Explanation:

Shenmue, released on December 29, 1999, was created for Dreamcast by Suzuki. It was widely described as the most expensive video game ever produced. It had an estimated production and marketing cost of between US$47 and $70 million, according to the latest available data.