Rumor: Microsoft releasing the Natal this month. Can you Belive it?

[disolitude]

Dragon-Fan said:

disolitude said:
Sega tried this with the Saturn. It didn't work...

But that was because they only sent limited numbers of consoles, which were mostly bought up by store staff members. Also they had little games available. And the asking price was too much (399)

If MS can deliver this, in large quantities (1 million units) sub 100 bucks and has 10 games available for launch...this may be a win for MS.

A bigger reason it didn't work was because the retailers not in on the deal were enraged, some of them (including Wal-mart?) refused to carry Saturn stuff I think after that.

It was KB Toys, not wal mart. But yes, you are right that was one of the contributing factors.

This article explains it best:

http://retro.ign.com/articles/871/871182p1.html

It blames downfal of Sega to early launch of the Saturn.