Sickening............. a TRUE gaming company struggling like this, those of you who had the opportunity to support SEGA back in the day, but went with corporations who at the time didn't give a shit about games should be ashamed of yourselves. (you KNOW which corporation i am referring to)

Sega's current situation is completely of their own doing. Sega created some of the best games in world. They had the debatably the best development teams and had the most versastile development teams. At one point in time Sega made some of the best games in every genre. That said as talented as their developers were, their coporate leaders was just as incompetent. If Sega had even average business leaders running the show, they'd still be developing games on their own console hardware.

Sure......... and "that" corporations advertising & financial muscle played no part whatsoever in SEGA's demise did it? tut tut tut.

Yes it was all Sony's fault. They secretly infiltrated the company before they even had a hardware platform and through undue influence caused Sega to make one boneheaded decision after another. They were responsible for the abject failure of the Mega Drive in Japan. They were the reason that it finished a distant third behind Nintendo and NEC. They forced Sega to release add ons like the Sega CD and 32X . Add ons that lowered consumer and retailer confidence in Sega's brand in North America.  They forced Sega to fight a patent infringement claim that cost Sega 43 million dollars when the patent holder only asked for 7 million dollar licensing fee. A fee that all other platform makes (Nintendo, Atari, 3DO company, etc.) paid. They made Sega launch the Saturn early in the North  America so that they'd anger retailers and third party developers. Also this secret Sony shadow board of directors forced Sega to kill the Saturn early in Japan. Eventhough both retailers and third parties asked them not to because of it was a strong second place in the region. It was this grand Emperor Palpatine like plan that lead to the Dreamcast launching with Sega 2 billion in debt along with 3rd parties, retailers, and consumers  all either angry or unconfident in the platforms chances of success.

neither of those were created by sega,  sega publihed them. those games were by platinum which are a japanese team

I am aware of that. But what AAA titles has Sega?

In Sales or Quality?

@Pezus

My impression is that he blames Sega's downfall on Sony. Sony set several precendents with the PS1 that were later adopted by MS when they entered the console market. However these tactics were only so effective because of Sega's mismanagement.

This is really sad... i think its time someone buys off SEGA. Its become too sad to be true.

Ironically Sega tried to sell themselves to Nintendo after the DC faltered. Yamauchi didn't want take the risk. He didn't want to Nintendo having to take on Sega's massive debt in addition to the cost of the company. At the same time MS offered to buy Sega but was turned down. This was right before the Xbox and GC launched.

I hope someone picks them up. Preferably a console manufacturer. Given Sony's finances that would leave MS and Nintendo.

@ClassicGamingWiz

I think he's letting his anger cloud his judgement. I used to blame Sony for Sega's demise at first too. Then I sat back at looked at situation objectively. When I did, I realized how poorly Sega was always run. Sega was always like an all star sports team with an amateur coach.

I hope someone picks them up. Preferably a console manufacturer. Given Sony's finances that would leave MS and Nintendo.

This would be a good time for Nintendo to buy Sega and let them develop new Nintendo IP and let sega take all the risks.