| Cerebralbore101 said: Yeah, there's definitely a big difference between Nintendo's financials now and Sega's in the 90's. I think the Genesis was their only really successful console. Not sure how many Master Systems sold, but it was a virtual unknown in the U.S. Sega's American and Japanese divisions were often at odds with one another. That's how we got the 32X and the Sega CD at almost the same time. I don't remember ever seeing the Saturn, but I read up on it years ago. Sony announced the PS1 as about $100 cheaper, and Sega just up and surprised everyone with a summer launch out of nowhere. Retailers got angry that they weren't told about it, so the Saturn didn't get stocked in the U.S. very well at all. |
Retailers were more angry about not getting consoles than the early release. See, with the early release they only had a small number of shipments, so they decided that instead of sending very limited quantities to all stores, they'd send bigger quantities to a smaller number of stores, which pissed of the retailers that didn't get the original shipments.
