shikamaru317 said:
He left Sega of America in 1996 because he had a disagreement with Sega's Japanese execs over the direction of the brand. He believed that Sega should have partnered with Sony, Sega Japan's execs didn't. He also disagreed with Sega Japan's decision to release Saturn early in the US when it had very few launch games ready and very few units manufactured. He was actually a pretty successful CEO, SOA's value increased from $72m to $1.5b during his years as CEO of SOA, and he was largely responsible for the success of Genesis in the US. |
Just the fact that he disagreed with the absurdly suicide move Sega did that ended up having Sega banished from several retailers and just set up the path to the complete irrelevance of the Saturn in the US gives the guy some credit.
