Over the past few years, Xbox influencers and YouTube journalists have made a new talking point. They claim Somy ran Sega out of the console business . I don’t know where this came from.

To claim this means they don’t know what they’re talking about. If you were a 90s gamer, that’s even worse. To be a gamer at that time and say that means your lying.

Anytime you ask these people how’d they do this to Sega; They can’t answer the question. Other people will say they heard it from……..”sources”. Its been 20 years, these people still can’t reveal the person that told them or the company?

I have never owned a Sega console. Although, I knew of them and what happened. I can give you “reasons“, why that never happened.

One, Sony never had an issue with Sega. If Sony could’ve ran someone out of the console business, it would’ve been Nintendo. They had pulled out of a deal with Sony to collab on a CD Super Nintendo, called Playstation. Nintendo was worried about Sony taking licensing money, market share and some of its IP. It was Nintendo that got Sony into gaming. Despite Nintendo blindsiding them with a Phillips partnership, Sony still tried to give Nintendo what it wanted and it still fell through.

Two, Sega screwed its fanbase. The Genesis was a solid console but they made bad decisions. They came out with attachments, the 32X and CD. These had their own small number of exclusive games and Genesis owners felt screwed over.

Three Sega infuriated their customers. Not to long after coming out with the CD and 32X, Sega did the unthinkable, they made a new console. They came out with the Sega Saturn. A console that had good first party games, but was hard to develop for and struggled with 3D graphics. The Saturn would end up a flop.

Four Sega killed Sega……. because of Sony. The Dreamcast was a good console with great 1st party content and features not seen on console. The disks were easy to copy and Sega saw the PS2, specifically its DVD drive. Despite having a great number of acclaimed games, in 2001 Sega decided to go to a third party and put their games on the Xbox.