LogFAQs > #980342064

As bad as the xbox one thing was, sega's fuck ups with the saturn, both the instant release after announcement thus no games from devs being ready and the exreme amount of in-fighting between their branches was bad enough (that shit pissed off both wal-mart and k b toys so bad they refused to stock saturn products, and I'm assuming this stunt did not go over too well with other retailers. Wal-mart did eventually change their mind and stock the dreamcast when it came out, but k b toys was perma-done with sega) that it snowballed into a downward spiral that they never truly recovered from. *Because of the petty in-fighting, saturn's actual sonic game sonic xtreme did not become a thing. Dudes was confidant in being able to get it down asap if they could use the nights into dreams engine, but yuji naka threatened to leave the company if the americans touched it. Dudes was just some old clowns with the japan vs north america rivalry.* (Also the one dude bernie stolar just....did not help at all. The whole "our future is not the saturn" thing....like, why would you announce this instead of fighting to make a come back. Dude was responsible for blocking so many 2D games coming from japan which was the saturn's biggest strength. Yeah, it isn't the new fad with 3D gaming, but its better than having absolutely nothing coming out in the west).

With the xbox one's whole thing you can always point and laugh but at the end of the day microsoft has more money than god so they aren't leaving the console industry until they say so. Sega's dumbasses fighting with each other and stupid stunts like the 32X, yuki naka being a bitch, the saturn outside of japan and shenmue took them out of the console game for good, and everything was totally their fault after the very successful genesis.