It's not like SEGA didn't put out any effort. Remember when mags were stacking screenshots of the icky-looking pack-in Virtua Fighter up against the PlayStation brawler Battle Arena Toshinden? That's when I first wondered if SEGA wasn't in for trouble, even though VF (and later, Virtua Fighter Remix) played circles around the shallow Toshinden. The Nintendo 64 also outpaced the Saturn by a large margin, thanks to incredible games like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. ![]() And it did, crushed under Sony's brilliant selling power that reintroduced games to a mainstream audience that had largely ignored vids since the fall of the Atari 2600 - and the entire industry - in 1984. It was almost as if SEGA wanted to lose the generation to the then-upstart PlayStation. ![]() Almost every success of the 16-bit blockbuster Genesis was undone through a series of poor decisions, from marketing to treatment of third-party publishers.
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