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I see three reasons:
1. Money
For every million Sega would put to promote/develop/support the DC, Sony would put 10 for the PS2.
2. Timing
As others have said in this thread, the perception is mostly "newer = better". DC came first, promoted (with reason) as so much superior to any other console of the previous generation. Sony stepped second, so they saw what the DC was doing and could work on that. So when Sony said "hey we'll launch this thing called PS2 in XX months", most potential buyers of the DC, informed or uninformed about PS2 features, simply thought they should wait a bit and spend their money on the new black box.
3. Other features
When the PS2 was announced, it wasn't just promoted as "the hottest console this side of Rio Rojo". It was also promoted as a "multimedia center" with DVD support. Back then, it was the real boom of DVD sales, so suddenly the PS2 had to some people two giant advantages: first, you could use your console for watching movies, which kind of "justified" even more purchasing a new console (and it wasn't exactly "inexpensive"). And second, any game in DVD would (probably) look, sound and feel much better than its CD or GDROM counterpart.
So you can argue about controller feels and dos, memory, brute polygon output, ease of programming or whatever, but often things are much simpler. Money, money and money.
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