I'm watching a documentary on the Sega Saturn's failure and the list of things that went wrong is very short: - everything Dudes failed at everything that was possible and some stuff that seemed impossible, like DELIVERING A SINGLE ORIGINAL GAME FOR THE COMPANY'S MAIN IP Such a disaster.

I think it is something for us to say "....in the US"... In Japan the Saturn was no slouch in sales or games... which were never or too late ported to the US... The Saturn was kind of the main victim of the Sega USA x Sega Japan infighting. But that was the end of SEGA in the console wars :(

E pior que o Saturno tinha bons jogos, eu ainda tento achar uma versão de shining force 3 que funcione pra tentar matar a saudade. E aquela interface de espaçonave era muito da hora É realmente muito triste ver um potencial desperdiçado assim, ainda mais de uma player grande da geração passada

Yup. Everyone thinks the PS2 and its DVD player killed the Dreamcast, but the PS2 was just the last nail. What really killed the Dreamcast was Sega's constant internal disputes and money struggles in the years prior. Kinda like how WW1 didn't just kick off once some Serbian shot the Archduke.

Just finished that doc, thanks for the recommendation! It's kind of incredible that Sega managed to fumble so hard. It's really no surprise the hardware division went under. Segata Sanshiro is still the GOAT though. Shame such an amazing mascot got squandered on that hardware.

Am still shocked that Shenmue almost came out on this

I think they were trying too hard to make Sonic X-treme and beat Super Mario 64, when people would've been happy with a 2D sequel or more.

Oooh thanks for the link. Gonna watch this.

sega’s management in america and japan were not only entirely incompetent at doing their jobs, but literally waging war against each other the dreamcast didn’t lose because of the ps2. the dreamcast lost because sega ceased to function as a company

Need a doc on the Sega Pico

And to think they wasted Segata Sanchiro on this - his adverts for the Saturn are so insane they needed to become their own subgenre of marketing