What RUINED Sega? - The Fall of an Empire

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  • Sega was a multi-million dollar powerhouse in the 1990s. They were a titan of the video game industry and waged war with Nintendo. But in the late 90s, Sega lost the console war. What happened? What caused Sega to fall so far from grace and fail in the world of console gaming?
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  • @BriGuyCA
    @BriGuyCA Před 5 lety +2635

    I worked at Sega of America from 1993-95 and lived through the rise and fall... fairly accurate depiction of those times. Well done.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Před 5 lety +119

      Can we have your thoughts on the train wreck that is Hollywood's attempt at a Sonic movie?

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 Před 4 lety +41

      Brian Baker what did you think of the 32x?

    • @marko_1marko
      @marko_1marko Před 4 lety +139

      @@satvrnplayz3669 Everything is telling me that you are not older than 15. ( at least your brain is not older than 15) - Your cringy username, your profile image and your idiotic 9gag comment

    • @wolzie8075
      @wolzie8075 Před 4 lety +29

      Why is people become a interviewer

    • @satvrnplayz3669
      @satvrnplayz3669 Před 4 lety +25

      @@wolzie8075 r/youngepeopleyoutube

  • @williamxb
    @williamxb Před 5 lety +1866

    So Basically Tom came and invented Sonic and revolutionized the company, and was pushing to buy consoles that would eventually become the PlayStation and the N64. But SEGA Japan was like
    "No we're good."

    • @antarticstorm7991
      @antarticstorm7991 Před 5 lety +27

      @Bruno your'e being racist

    • @antarticstorm7991
      @antarticstorm7991 Před 5 lety +26

      @Sahand Az oh yeah like what they did to ash in sun and moon

    • @wturner777
      @wturner777 Před 5 lety +92

      @Bruno Don't blame the Japanese. It was the people at Sega of Japan that costed the company big and never recovered.

    • @einzbased
      @einzbased Před 5 lety +18

      *Curb your enthusiasm plays*

    • @BrokenKeyboard14
      @BrokenKeyboard14 Před 5 lety +30

      That’s no good

  • @pedrosvlog1183
    @pedrosvlog1183 Před 4 lety +958

    Sega of America put them on the map and they hated it , Sega of Japan and their pride killed them.

    • @BakiX
      @BakiX Před 4 lety +92

      100%

    • @sonnyh.9091
      @sonnyh.9091 Před 4 lety +60

      But let's not forget that it was their idea to push the 32x and CD, while Japan was ready to move to the Saturn

    • @lordcommandernox9197
      @lordcommandernox9197 Před 4 lety +10

      hahaha
      Sega of America did what? Sega was never popular in the US and the Japanese knew that, also, it was the director of Sega US that failed to supply shops with the Dreamcast which was also coincidentally Microshaft's first foray into console design and guess what, for his utter incompetence he was rewarded with the same job but now working for Microshaft after Sega went under. hmmm
      Fuck Bill gates and ignorant 'muricans who bought the Xbotch, 20 years of mediocrity and still MS is able to have an army of Stans... In the US mind you, Europe was Sega territory, they were, as, if not more popular than Nintendo, Xbox sees very little sales over here and in Japan it's a joke. just look back and tell me what ground breaking games did the Xbloop studios came up with? Don't say Halo pls, it's just your nostalgia playing tricks, there were far better fps at the time. I said ground-breaking

    • @sonnyh.9091
      @sonnyh.9091 Před 4 lety +76

      @@lordcommandernox9197 sega was popular in the 16 bit era we both know that

    • @paperluigi6132
      @paperluigi6132 Před 4 lety +51

      @Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah Heck, Sonic 1 on the Genesis came out in Japan 3 days AFTER the American release. So technically, Sonic's debut was in America.

  • @peregrination3643
    @peregrination3643 Před 4 lety +851

    "This led instead to the N64." Okay.
    "This led instead to the PS." Ouch.
    "This led instead to the XBox." I'm doubled over.

    • @dragondelsur5156
      @dragondelsur5156 Před 4 lety +94

      This is resumed on:
      *OOF*
      *DOUBLE OOF*
      *HYPER OOF*

    • @CheeseySavage
      @CheeseySavage Před 4 lety +57

      It physically hurt when hearing him say these things. I’ll be honest I don’t own any of those game consoles ( forgive me if I got that wrong ), but what I do know is that they were massive profit hits. That’s why it hurt hearing about the huge opportunity’s SEGA missed out on.

    • @crashpal
      @crashpal Před 4 lety +7

      @Iggy Hop Koopa sonic sez

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 Před 3 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 Před 3 lety +2

      @@CheeseySavage too true

  • @johnpants6576
    @johnpants6576 Před 5 lety +1473

    I can sum up this entire video in 3 words
    "that's no good"

  • @therayleviathan
    @therayleviathan Před 6 lety +2674

    WHY WON'T YOU LEARN! THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

    • @switchspeedster2671
      @switchspeedster2671 Před 6 lety +101

      Because they "Live and Learn" than just learn

    • @iamblackrose740
      @iamblackrose740 Před 6 lety +6

      Prince Dream Nom Gaming 😂😂😂😂 lmao

    • @Sonic_Gamer501
      @Sonic_Gamer501 Před 6 lety +11

      Prince Dream Nom Gaming I feel like that's a reference to something, I just don't know what.

    • @MalarkeyMan
      @MalarkeyMan Před 6 lety +33

      Sonic Gamer Sammy classic sonic fan

    • @therayleviathan
      @therayleviathan Před 6 lety +11

      iLikeMovies It's not. It's a SammyClassicSonicFan reference to his rants about sonic XD

  • @comfy88338
    @comfy88338 Před 5 lety +355

    *Sony Used $299*
    *It's Super Effective*
    *SEGA Fainted!*
    *You earned 68% of the Console Market*

    • @pa_layman6907
      @pa_layman6907 Před 4 lety +38

      Your PlayStation 2 is evolving

    • @anoobyuser5517
      @anoobyuser5517 Před 4 lety +5

      *Human used $1*
      *Everyone fainted!*

    • @tossom3915
      @tossom3915 Před 4 lety +3

      @Maxsteel 42 PS3 fainted! Xbox 360 takes the market

    • @ALCODERS_vlogs
      @ALCODERS_vlogs Před 4 lety +2

      @@tossom3915 Xbox 360 fainted! Your Wii has leveled up to 100M sales.

    • @ducksareurlords3782
      @ducksareurlords3782 Před 4 lety +2

      Playstation nerds... They never learn how to be nice... To others...

  • @upwaveflash8429
    @upwaveflash8429 Před 5 lety +428

    3 things
    1. Saturn surprised launch
    2. Too many add-ons
    3. Sega of japan decline to work with Sony

    • @gamble777888
      @gamble777888 Před 4 lety +15

      Saturn was going to flop no matter what, but that botched launch never even let them get off the ground.

    • @ciredecgellar8232
      @ciredecgellar8232 Před 4 lety +3

      Nobody knows if Sony was ok for working with Sega actually ...

    • @Kinomiyasan
      @Kinomiyasan Před 4 lety +5

      That’s why my uncle and my other uncle like PlayStation and Nintendo and they don’t care for sega and when I go to my friends house he’s and sega fan but he only plays xbox is it weird for me to like PlayStation and sega

    • @Kinomiyasan
      @Kinomiyasan Před 4 lety +1

      ciredec Gellar true

    • @comfy88338
      @comfy88338 Před 4 lety +2

      @@gamble777888
      They could've had a chance if the Saturn had the launch titles completed and the Console was cheaper.

  • @TCFan30
    @TCFan30 Před 5 lety +2085

    Sega lived fast, but died hard.

    • @wolfiethehedgehog3900
      @wolfiethehedgehog3900 Před 5 lety +66

      "Y'know, what can I say? I die hard!"
      Just like the company you came from, Sonic. (In a good way- don't take it negatively. ^^')

    • @cameronjournal
      @cameronjournal Před 5 lety +24

      Here for a fun time not for a long time.

    • @upwaveflash8429
      @upwaveflash8429 Před 5 lety +20

      Stupid marketing and saturn kill them

    • @yoda908
      @yoda908 Před 5 lety +2

      Agreed. But I'm curious as to how many people actually subscribed to the Sega Channel.

    • @upwaveflash8429
      @upwaveflash8429 Před 5 lety +3

      Wild Side that a great question but I don’t know

  • @jcam.hart8
    @jcam.hart8 Před 6 lety +908

    Say what you will about Sega, but you can't deny the awesomeness of their commercials.

    • @koreankamui98
      @koreankamui98 Před 6 lety +37

      Cameron Hart I agree. The fact that SoJ hired Hiroshi Fujioka, a huge celebrity in Japan (huge as in having a minor planet named after him), to be the mascot behind the Saturn is awesome in my book.

    • @SmrtPhonRtistCF
      @SmrtPhonRtistCF Před 6 lety +10

      I could watch them ALL day.

    • @michaelswitzer2121
      @michaelswitzer2121 Před 6 lety +5

      I hate sega but u are correct they did

    • @8bitdiedie
      @8bitdiedie Před 6 lety +8

      Some are, but a lot are just edgy 90s kids pandering with some buzzwords thrown in (“blast processing”).

    • @jeffsills6013
      @jeffsills6013 Před 5 lety +2

      My favorite was the one on the airplane and the flight attendant says “Coffee? Tea?...SEGA??” Lol. Ah the memories.

  • @jaronafrost7613
    @jaronafrost7613 Před 5 lety +966

    I never knew SEGA was originally from Hawaii 😮

  • @ZefDavenport
    @ZefDavenport Před 5 lety +369

    Not going to lie, the first time I saw Mario and Sonic in the same game (Super Smash Bros Brawl) blew my mind. I'm a late 80's kid, and up until that point, Sonic and Mario were rivals, enemies. Seeing them cooperate in the same game... well, you can imagine.

    • @meltonthegamer
      @meltonthegamer Před 5 lety +14

      This first time I saw Sonic and Mario together in a game I threw up 🤮

    • @huntergraham702
      @huntergraham702 Před 5 lety +36

      When i was a kid we got a Gamecube for Christmas...along with two Sonic games. *For* the Gamecube. Sonic Heroes and a collection of older games.
      I didn't know about their rivalry back then but now the irony is too delicious.

    • @meltonthegamer
      @meltonthegamer Před 5 lety +3

      @@huntergraham702 There's still rivalry 😮

    • @ZefDavenport
      @ZefDavenport Před 5 lety +5

      @@huntergraham702 RIGHT?

    • @Knuckles_la_Enchilada
      @Knuckles_la_Enchilada Před 5 lety +8

      Yeah, the game where they fight each other, they were cooperating XD (I mean, that was a dream come true for a kid of the 90's)

  • @HalE14
    @HalE14 Před 6 lety +300

    I’d like to see you do a video on why you think Warner Bros has failed to keep Looney Tunes relevant today while Disney still keeps Mickey and friends as well known as they were in the past. I’m currently watching Space Jam with my 3 year old and it’s weird to think she has no idea who these characters are since they are never seen anymore!

    • @HalE14
      @HalE14 Před 6 lety +16

      Underscorer Well now I feel old 😂😂😂

    • @HalE14
      @HalE14 Před 6 lety +3

      @saberspark Thank you for loving this! I was having a bad night and you made it better!

    • @Clean.Eastwood
      @Clean.Eastwood Před 6 lety +22

      I thing it all comes down to money. Warner Bros. is a large corporation, yes, but Disney is a fucking empire. They have enough money to constantly advertise their characters, so the kids will always recognize them from the merchandising.

    • @OckhamAsylum
      @OckhamAsylum Před 6 lety +6

      I gotta agree with Don Feik, whatever the case may be, the root cause of the problem has to go back to how much money each corporation has to throw around. And financially speaking, Warner Bros. couldn't catch up to Disney if the latter took a break for 10 years.

    • @Windyleeks
      @Windyleeks Před 6 lety +4

      I also agree with Don, and I agree with the lost and forgotten. The HUGE reason I believe why a lot of kids do not know the Looney Tunes comes down to what Don discussed, AND I think it comes down to what they’re showing on TV nowadays. Look at the block that Wabbit/The New Looney Tunes is stuck on! With Teen Titans Go dominating everything, they can barely get a bit of screen time in like the other shows! As for Disney, Mickey is a mascot, so they have to use him at least once in a while. (Even though I thought Bugs was supposed to be Warner’s. I guess they really don’t care about him anymore since it seems they’ve gone...out of that for the time being.) By the way, Mickey seems to be making a comeback as of 2013 and onwards! (Seriously, you guys. When has the mouse last had a show since House of Mouse?) Even Donald Duck is doing it this year with Ducktales!...Kind of.

  • @davoone78
    @davoone78 Před 4 lety +295

    I am a SEGA fan and after seeing this I was depressed

    • @oosha2000
      @oosha2000 Před 4 lety +21

      same, I feel for you

    • @ebayshopper6272
      @ebayshopper6272 Před 4 lety +8

      Your pfp fits with your comment

    • @Kinomiyasan
      @Kinomiyasan Před 4 lety +10

      Me too That’s why my uncle and my other uncle like PlayStation and Nintendo and they don’t care for sega and when I go to my friends house he’s and sega fan but he only plays xbox is it weird for me to like PlayStation and sega

    • @theorangedinosaur4098
      @theorangedinosaur4098 Před 4 lety +4

      Rip

    • @theorangedinosaur4098
      @theorangedinosaur4098 Před 4 lety +4

      Sega

  • @mrbuckle2986
    @mrbuckle2986 Před 5 lety +102

    dreamcast had such a good library of games. just no dvd player. a dvd player ended the console wars. ironic

    • @ahmedelged4894
      @ahmedelged4894 Před 3 lety +6

      They could have made model 2 or something, but sega of Japan are retarded that they just left the meeting. But now they are making shitty games for 3rd party companies, EVEN NINTENDO. Maybe if they make a console that has all their games, the old ones and the new ones, with some 3rd party games, they could have a comeback.

    • @JohnyLim6393
      @JohnyLim6393 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ahmedelged4894 agree, they should make version 2 which upgrade the optical to DVD ROM, and add an USB slot.
      On graphic, sega still can compete with others.
      But it lack the library especially an J-RPG at that time was a game changer.
      Shenmue was great, but no final fantasy was a big thing

    • @yaqbulyakkerbat4190
      @yaqbulyakkerbat4190 Před 2 lety +10

      Let's face it. Sega was terminally ill well before Dreamcast hit the market.
      Soon as Kalinsky left it should have been the biggest red-flag

    • @mattg082
      @mattg082 Před 2 lety +1

      I think the overlook of broadband, pirated games, and being able to override the system with no physical mod…that really hurt the Dreamcast. A friend that had well off parents handed me a bunch of new games on CDR. Blew my mind at the time. A few months later ATR offered the Stingray and a 1mbps download speed. Everyone was able to get all games, even on release date for free. Many were still playing after it was discontinued. Me and everyone I knew still had Dreamcast as a big system up till 2005 in home. So many games we couldn’t play them all! That was a huge oversight not many talk about. Also I watched movies on mine with CDR early on before PS2.

    • @ninjavigilante5311
      @ninjavigilante5311 Před rokem +1

      Dreamcast was awesome because you can play burnt games from all over the world with jus a toothpick trick.

  • @glover3D
    @glover3D Před 6 lety +858

    "It all started in 2006"

    • @monadoboy9670
      @monadoboy9670 Před 6 lety +43

      Uh...no it didn't, it started because Sega released to many add ons for the Genesis and the 32x was released months before the Saturn.

    • @Mayala285
      @Mayala285 Před 6 lety +140

      Nino IsEverywhere its a joke a reference to sonic 06 jeez people get it together lol

    • @dey6942
      @dey6942 Před 6 lety +16

      Nino IsEverywhere nah that's not true it all started when sonic took over as the only series Sega cares about plus I know lots of people hate 06 but that's my favorite game in the whole Sonic series

    • @glover3D
      @glover3D Před 6 lety +76

      It's just a fucking Sonic 06 meme why are you people getting butthurt lmao

    • @Klonoahedgehog
      @Klonoahedgehog Před 6 lety +10

      Nino IsEverywhere Because some of us are annoyed that people still bring up a game that came out over a decade ago.

  • @PlayerFiveVids
    @PlayerFiveVids Před 5 lety +488

    What ruined Sega?
    "...$299"

    • @MyDeeroc
      @MyDeeroc Před 4 lety +5

      What ruined them is the dreamcast had no new exclusive games

    • @Nestalgba92023
      @Nestalgba92023 Před 4 lety +19

      *$399.9 at launch Saturn in the US!?

    • @voutideixarumoco6318
      @voutideixarumoco6318 Před 4 lety +14

      Sony

    • @carltheincels6641
      @carltheincels6641 Před 4 lety +1

      @KidDynamite500 Yeah but wasn't it all non exclusive and people would rather play those games on more "Advertised, familiar consoles"?

    • @vitheic
      @vitheic Před 4 lety +1

      @@Nestalgba92023 with that money you can buy a really good chair!

  • @VinnyMartello
    @VinnyMartello Před 4 lety +53

    The story of sega is almost like the story of the man who died in a flood. The waters began rising. A family drove by his house and offered him a ride. He said “no, god will save me.” So they left. A while later his yard was flooded. A man in a fishing boat passed by and said “hey get in!” “No no, god will save me” he replied. By now the man was sitting on the roof of his now flooded house. A helicopter flew by and the pilot yelled “hey, get in!” And of course the man declined. He died that day. When he stood before god at the pearly gates he said “God, why didn’t you save me?”
    “You idiot” God replied. “I sent help your way three times and three times you refused.”

  • @mikekazz5353
    @mikekazz5353 Před 5 lety +217

    Nintendo: um it's not what it looks like.
    Sony: oh yeah then what's with all these empty disc cases doing on the ground
    Phillips: *trying to sneak out the window*
    Nintendo: but I-
    Sony: sorry can't hear you I don't listen to harlots.

    • @BrainDamageComedy
      @BrainDamageComedy Před 4 lety +13

      this is underrated. very good bit.

    • @DanzigFan-vq3zf
      @DanzigFan-vq3zf Před 4 lety +4

      SEGA: NO. Blame me. It isn’t Nintendo’s fault

    • @soulhoney1908
      @soulhoney1908 Před 3 lety

      @@DanzigFan-vq3zf Sony: yeah you guys refuse me to work with you now im greatest on the markets

    • @ticoliro3392
      @ticoliro3392 Před 3 lety +2

      @@soulhoney1908 nintendo with switch: well sony you again ?
      Sony:can we talk?

    • @GeekRaj
      @GeekRaj Před 3 lety

      can someone tell me what game is at 6:36? I loved that game forgot its name....

  • @Saberspark
    @Saberspark  Před 6 lety +329

    GOTTA GO FAST! But real talk, if you were a kid from the 90s, what console company did you grow up with? Nintendo or Sega? What kind of console do you have now-a-days?
    Also, check out my merch shop and get my pretty face on a shirt! www.pixelempire.com/collections/saberspark

    • @wildone4324
      @wildone4324 Před 6 lety +21

      Nintendo for me. First thing I ever got was a Gameboy Colour and Pokemon Yellow

    • @BigBossMan538
      @BigBossMan538 Před 6 lety +6

      Gotta go DAB

    • @jcam.hart8
      @jcam.hart8 Před 6 lety +11

      I was born in 1998, but I grew up playing N64 and Gamecube.

    • @nelo7149
      @nelo7149 Před 6 lety +11

      I am a kid of the 2000's, but I have a Nintendo 64 console. So bad that the remote is not in good conditions...

    • @robinchwan
      @robinchwan Před 6 lety +3

      Saberspark both. And Atari

  • @SolarFarle
    @SolarFarle Před 6 lety +522

    That's no good.

  • @LucasMBoysOurRoy
    @LucasMBoysOurRoy Před 4 lety +35

    In conclusion, Sega of Japan needs the axe

  • @dasutanehineri
    @dasutanehineri Před 5 lety +55

    Tbh the phrase "Genesis does what nintendon't" is such a good line that i'd buy it

  • @bloodsword7888
    @bloodsword7888 Před 6 lety +311

    SEGA was a bit too arrogant with their success in competing with Nintendo.
    That's what led to it's downfall.

    • @paulbarlow9981
      @paulbarlow9981 Před 6 lety +122

      SEGA of Japan killed SEGA. They blocked every good business decision SEGA of America had, which would have created a very different gaming industry as we know it.

    • @chillstoneblakeblast3172
      @chillstoneblakeblast3172 Před 6 lety +18

      Bloodsword788 companies die if they try to go iver the competition rather than either coexisting with it or finding the other route.

    • @janmarcoperezbatres2203
      @janmarcoperezbatres2203 Před 6 lety +14

      Imagine a 4 console war..... Oh god, a 3 console war is toxic enough.

    • @KeybladeMasterAndy
      @KeybladeMasterAndy Před 6 lety +12

      Jan Marco Perez Batres With PC, it's already 4.

    • @KeybladeMasterAndy
      @KeybladeMasterAndy Před 6 lety +13

      Paul Barlow Yeah. Sega of Japan was too arrogant.

  • @paulinasofia8637
    @paulinasofia8637 Před 5 lety +205

    i think it's super interesting how sonic, the most product of the 90's, has survived, and I'm happy, Sonic is such a charismatic character!!

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Před 5 lety +16

      Hollywood: Hold my film.

    • @alfa01spotivo
      @alfa01spotivo Před 5 lety +22

      @@dubuyajay9964 ehh that wont hurt the franchise too much. I mean the mario movie didnt kill the mario series

    • @iloilomilo
      @iloilomilo Před 5 lety +42

      @@alfa01spotivo i agree that the Mario Movie didn't kill Mario, but you know: when a bad thing about Mario happens, after some time is already forgotten, but when a bad thing about Sonic happens...oh boy
      I mean, Sonic 06 is an example

    • @blastketchup4953
      @blastketchup4953 Před 5 lety +3

      Sonic is charismatic? He seems like a douche to me

    • @TheBeatlesShow
      @TheBeatlesShow Před 5 lety +7

      @@blastketchup4953 I don't know what makes you think that, but okay. I just don't know what's giving you that message.

  • @RazorEdge2006
    @RazorEdge2006 Před 2 lety +44

    The rise and fall of Sega is always one of the most interesting stories in video game history.

    • @patrickciacco1083
      @patrickciacco1083 Před 2 lety

      That's because the " Gook Play Station " corporation's are much more cunning, smart and resourceful than the play station corporations in the good ole u.s.a.

  • @dragonchr15
    @dragonchr15 Před 5 lety +168

    "Sega missed out on both the n64 and the playstation."
    I hope those japanese executives at sega japan committed sepuku for such a colossal failure....

  • @ha420weednumber
    @ha420weednumber Před 6 lety +50

    So Sega hired a marketing and business genius to make their company successful. Listened to him and he made them fuckloads of money. Then they stopped listening and slowly fucking died.
    Nice

    • @romeojavier7997
      @romeojavier7997 Před 6 lety +5

      Fixed Fun SEGA could have been both & Arcade Developer, & an Edgy Alternative to Nintendo.

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety +6

      They did listen to him. It was Sega's PARENT COMPANY CSK that kept BLOCKING him and Sega as a whole.
      And ultimately ruined the company and screwed everyone over.

  • @plcthelegacy4131
    @plcthelegacy4131 Před 6 lety +3170

    Nintendo didn't screw Sega
    Sony didn't screw Sega
    Sega screwed Sega

    • @mission-toast
      @mission-toast Před 6 lety +336

      Sega of Japan screwed Sega.

    • @feraflauna3238
      @feraflauna3238 Před 6 lety +91

      +PLC The Legacy-Yeah, you will find too often that the "losers" of the "console wars" are made so because of their own ineptitude and their own stupid decisions. Ie. Microsoft has struggled this entire generation with the XBOX One over stupid decisions they willingly made: announcing that they were going to lock used games and have the XBOX on permanent internet, only to rush to nix those plans when the backlash became way too much. Forced the integration of the Kinect with the XBOX One at first where the XBOX One ran all the way up to at least $500 on release day. Lack of exclusives, botched release day titles, repeatedly cancelled high budget projects for whatever reason and shuttered a catalog of its own internal developers. Microsoft routinely f'd up this generation, so all their turmoil and woes over the situation is entirely THEIR fault.
      Likewise, it was probably much the same story with Sega back in the 90s. They missed out on an opportunity to create a console with Nintendo because they create their own-the Saturn and the Dreamcast. However, according to someone here, Sega sued developers trying to create games for their own console because the process was so confusing and Sega never told them how to use it, the developers tried to reverse engineer games on their own to figure it out. Basically, Sega was suing its own developers for DARING. ..to make games for their own console and of course, that fallout had to have been a public embarrassment.
      The damage was probably around done with what happened with the Saturn to where it is likely very few companies wanted to work with Sega on their next console, the Dreamcast. From what I can gather, that console dropped like a stone, probably even as early as release, to where it remains a far more obscure console a few people who grew up with genuinely still love it.
      And it looks like after the Dreamcast failed and Microsoft dipped its toes in the console market with the first XBOX, Sega finally surrendered and never made a console again. And it seems ever since all the way back when that happened. . .they haven't really done anything of relevance. The Sonic titles were still great. . .until they weren't. . .and Sega refuses to put this series into the peaceful sleep that it deserves. They only have done a few series, some with cult followings (Valkyria Chronicles), and a few random mobile games here and there, but other than that, they operate as a hollow shell of who they used to be and whoever the executives are left are not capable or willing to let anything change about it.

    • @nancywaiganjo7357
      @nancywaiganjo7357 Před 6 lety +12

      Even Microsoft has.

    • @iamerror2852
      @iamerror2852 Před 6 lety +11

      Scott Gordon completely true statement dude.

    • @Meonium
      @Meonium Před 6 lety

      Fera Flauna yeah love VC

  • @everythingthrice2582
    @everythingthrice2582 Před 5 lety +35

    Trying to stop Nintendo is like trying to scale a 90 degree angle wall without any equipment!

    • @broken75.20
      @broken75.20 Před 3 lety +13

      What kill SEGA wasn't Nintendo. What kill SEGA was :
      -Playstation
      -Sega of Japan.
      Nintendo himself wasn't a big problem for SEGA. SEGA was the number one video game industry in 1994.

    • @justanidiot3994
      @justanidiot3994 Před 3 lety +7

      @@broken75.20 sega killed itself. It started focusing on making sonic more powerful than mario so badly in 2006 that they legit made every single character boring to look at except for sonic.

    • @therealmrmago9077
      @therealmrmago9077 Před 3 lety

      and the crazy thing is for a brief moment as beautiful and as filleting as the life span of a butterfly the crazy sons of sons of britches did it they hurt the god of video games nintendo and dethroned their king Mario but like how Icarus flew to close to the sun Sega became to ambitious making useless add ones and bad business decisions that led to the Saturn failing without there flagship mascot sonic and it was two late but that didn't stop Sega from going out not with a whimper but with a bang with the return of their speedy blue champion for one last hurray with their sawn song the dream cast before the curtain closed on this legendary company that touched the lives of many toot toot sonic warriors “All things must pass.”
      ― George Harrison

    • @phantomblue2798
      @phantomblue2798 Před 3 lety +4

      Well you're kinda right. Nintendo didn't stop. It's just that Sega has managed to slow them down enough to become the video game market king for a while. Nintendo might have always slow down at some points, (for example their market decisions with Mario 3D All Stars), but they never really stopped.

    • @broken75.20
      @broken75.20 Před 3 lety +3

      @@phantomblue2798 they never had the intention to stop Nintendo. They had the intention to be the no.1 video game industry. And they succeed at.

  • @calebdavis381
    @calebdavis381 Před 3 lety +21

    The more I hear the story the more I get upset with sega. Sega really had a chance to be the greatest and turned down the greatest deals based on jealousy of one man.

    • @EGV88
      @EGV88 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Kalinske?

  • @TheRealChristopherB
    @TheRealChristopherB Před 6 lety +143

    I love how your expanding your What RUINED? series beyond just television network, it's like a little history lesson but based on popular media

  • @josefarias5216
    @josefarias5216 Před 6 lety +85

    Tl;dr: Japanese division’s ego and stubbornness almost killed an entire company. Damn Nintendo, my man, you dodged a bullet there.

    • @moonmanvic
      @moonmanvic Před 6 lety +5

      José Farías Two bullets. Imagine...Sega 64 or the Sega Playstation...

  • @GameGamerGame
    @GameGamerGame Před 4 lety +76

    Imagine sega going up against Microsoft and Sony AND Nintendo nowadays in the console market

    • @Luke-xi2pq
      @Luke-xi2pq Před 4 lety +6

      Too many options, lol!!!

    • @dragondelsur5156
      @dragondelsur5156 Před 4 lety +6

      Maybe they would had more exclusives active than just Sonic.

    • @Tom-jw7ii
      @Tom-jw7ii Před 4 lety +9

      they were just 7 months off from competing with the original xbox

    • @brandonwilliams6119
      @brandonwilliams6119 Před 4 lety +13

      But everything changed when PS2 Attacked

    • @cryoraptora303tm2
      @cryoraptora303tm2 Před 4 lety +12

      In theory they could considering they'd have Sonic as an exclusive, but it's just not going to happen now. The company doesn't have the resources. The only way it could happen is if one of the big 3 starts to fail and they ask SEGA to get on board with a new project, but the chances of that are very slim.

  • @mickael486
    @mickael486 Před 3 lety +12

    Great Video.
    I was the kid on the school bus defending Sega over Nintendo. Now that I'm an adult it's clear what games truly stand the test of time.
    Sega lost me with that whole Sega CD, 32x, Saturn fiasco.

  • @OfficialRedTeamReview
    @OfficialRedTeamReview Před 6 lety +264

    Shitty decisions ruined Sega. I always wanted a genesis growing up but got a Super Nintendo instead and I always felt a little left out of a certain fandom because of it. I'm fine with it now because Mario' games have been great over the years and I hope Sonic, in the future, gets a good worthy enough to be on everyone's radar that doesn't involve him being on Super Smash Bros or some type of virtual console. Good video as always, Saber

    • @JuanGonzalez-tt6ht
      @JuanGonzalez-tt6ht Před 4 lety +28

      Sega of America knew what they were doing but Sega of Japan killed there decisions and was the one that made shitty decisions

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 Před 3 lety +6

      Sonic Mania

    • @crystalkasane9663
      @crystalkasane9663 Před 3 lety +4

      I never wanted a sega device. My childhood was a Nintendo Ds I, and I loved it! I still have it and play it! But yeah from what I heard is that Sega's decisions made it fall. I have a Nintendo Switch and love the console!

    • @hunterngavinmom
      @hunterngavinmom Před 3 lety +2

      At least SEGA of America got a little better

    • @GeekRaj
      @GeekRaj Před 3 lety +2

      can someone tell me what game is at 6:36? I loved that game forgot its name....

  • @melon1674
    @melon1674 Před 6 lety +99

    Saberspark? more like.....
    SEGAspark
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

  • @hitkid2456
    @hitkid2456 Před 3 lety +20

    DC failure was truly unique. It had its fans, more than you can say for almost any failure, but they couldn't save it.
    Maybe SEGA was too busy focusing on arcades, or really were stretched too thin with that sector, because not even Nintendo had much of an arcade presence. SEGA really should have dedicated themselves more to the home market, and maybe that was their failing. They never truly cared, corporate-wise. Otherwise, they should have merged with Sammy or whatever well before they launched.

  • @ThatHimIs
    @ThatHimIs Před 4 lety +20

    Guys I'm watching this in 2019 and I just so happen to watch a Sega Genesis 30th anniversary ad on this video....weird.

    • @frankiebaker419
      @frankiebaker419 Před 4 lety +2

      it's almost as if the ad led you here in the first place

    • @ThatHimIs
      @ThatHimIs Před 4 lety +1

      @@frankiebaker419 ikr

  • @kikima34
    @kikima34 Před 6 lety +260

    I thought this was going to be a video crapping on 3D Sonic, but it was actually a very well researched video. Thank you for that

    • @AngelEmfrbl
      @AngelEmfrbl Před 6 lety +6

      The problem with sonic is nostalgia from the 90s. I've encountered this many times, also with mortal kombat. What little good progress comes from innovation is stepped on by the 90s. Its also a problem for comics where the 10% silver age fans call modern comics out and promote their era as better.sonic can work in 3d for example as sonic adventure is proof of this, but the problem is that they never developed this model. Each game often is an independent development and so Sega games can be disconnected as is the case with sonic in 3d.

  • @Matt-uk7zq
    @Matt-uk7zq Před 6 lety +104

    *T H A T S N O G O O D*

  • @GearoxButaBox
    @GearoxButaBox Před 3 lety +14

    The difference between Sega and Nintendo is: Nintendo learns from their mistakes.
    Sega made the Sonic games so much worse and didn't work on much else, putting all their attention on Sonic...
    Nintendo tried new things. They took criticism that they got from the Wii U and made the Switch from the mistakes they had made. They tried something new for TLOZ and Mario, thus the creation of Breath Of The Wild and Oddyssey. Nintendo tried so many new things and Sega just kind of... let that rot.

    • @kevingame3198
      @kevingame3198 Před 3 lety

      She’s should be on the list for most hated game company and hates like blizzard and gearbox software not to mention saga and gearbox work together both saga and gearbox ruin their reputation and now saga is now a shell of its former self

  • @Phelps1111
    @Phelps1111 Před rokem +5

    Japanese companies have very odd management structure. There seems to be a culture that revolves around being "yes men". That's definitely prevalent in the US as well but not as much.

    • @whenisdinner2137
      @whenisdinner2137 Před rokem +3

      It's more like they have an ego and can't put their own ideas on the backburner in order to be more successful. They have a really hard time accepting the ideas of employees under them over their own even if they make more sense.

    • @virgogaming6488
      @virgogaming6488 Před rokem +3

      @@whenisdinner2137 They're more interested in having subordinates than listening to them, even when that other person is right.

  • @KyluxWolf
    @KyluxWolf Před 6 lety +40

    -"Hey, if we give you full control, will you join us?"
    -"Sure thing, we just gotta refresh your stuff a bit!"
    -"eehhh..."
    -"What? You said I'd have full control."
    -"N-no no, go ahead..."
    *it has a massive success*
    ...
    -"So for the next console, I was thinking we could use this processor..."
    -"No."
    -"But... it's faster.. and.."
    -"NO."
    *they lose the N64*
    ...
    -"So, for the next console, I thought we could work with Sony and give them a percentage of th-"
    -"No."
    -"B-but.. they have the experience in.."
    -"N O"
    *they lose the PS1*
    -"you know what f--k you i'm outta here"

  • @theresastarmanwaitinginthe5149

    WHAT THE FUCK IS A SONIC?!

  • @RaccAttack77
    @RaccAttack77 Před rokem +5

    I’ll never be over the fact they closed that big, multi-floor arcade in Japan recently. It was so iconic to the area it was in (Kabukicho for those don’t know, the inspiration for Kamurocho in the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series)

  • @Luke-xi2pq
    @Luke-xi2pq Před 4 lety +16

    Both Sonic and Sega were on speed, but the sad thing is is that they live an awesome, yet short life!

  • @aesthet1kal
    @aesthet1kal Před 6 lety +132

    Welp Sega and Nintendo created their rivals... (Xbox and PlayStation)

  • @tc8908__
    @tc8908__ Před 5 lety +211

    This video was mind blowing, I never would've known that most of the major games today could have been Sega byproducts at one point, well multiple.

    • @GeekRaj
      @GeekRaj Před 3 lety +3

      can someone tell me what game is at 6:36? I loved that game forgot its name....

    • @stevensanchez1192
      @stevensanchez1192 Před 3 lety +3

      @@GeekRaj It's either Final Fantasy one or two.

  • @thomasobrien1841
    @thomasobrien1841 Před rokem +5

    Sega of Japan: could our pride and insecurities be ruining this company? No. It’s the Americans that are wrong

  • @thisismysea
    @thisismysea Před 4 lety +4

    All the nostalgic commercials here took me straight back to the 90s! Advertising was so weird and out there back then. I love the dude with the septum piercing and the pink tutu; I don't know what he had to do with video games, but I love him.

  • @sussy3778
    @sussy3778 Před 6 lety +125

    I know the point, and it's sad, Sega is a company with a lot of potential, but they make a lot of bad decisions, it's annoying to see that Sonic's image is down, it's sad to see that a lot of the new Sonic games are just '' not so bad ''.
    I like Sonic, but the decisions of this company sinks him a lot!

    • @carlbloke8797
      @carlbloke8797 Před 6 lety +8

      Mas'sMinecraftAdventures sadly true. but at least Sonic manioa proves that there is still hope for the Hedgehog

    • @sussy3778
      @sussy3778 Před 6 lety +2

      :c

    • @sussy3778
      @sussy3778 Před 6 lety +6

      Still hope, but Sega will need to work alot to unsink Sonic

    • @carlbloke8797
      @carlbloke8797 Před 6 lety +5

      ValdemarCristino Fontenele Andrade perhaps they need to take a break from Sonic and work on reviving other IPs before getting back to him. That or perhaps leave the development of sonic games to Whitehead

    • @sussy3778
      @sussy3778 Před 6 lety +2

      Good point

  • @normalguy3224
    @normalguy3224 Před 6 lety +253

    The genesis ! The genesis! The genesis!The genesis!
    GENESIS DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T

    • @zebare726
      @zebare726 Před 6 lety +9

      normal guy
      SEGA!!!!!

    • @AfroMing
      @AfroMing Před 6 lety +1

      Michel Pigion fast and with good graphics at the time lol. Just to think, gaming has come a looooooooong way since Atari. I would love to see them try a comeback with revamped HD versions of their games along side the originals.

    • @TheRealDismantler
      @TheRealDismantler Před 6 lety +4

      Except Genesis did what Nintencan

    • @SilverSonic1992
      @SilverSonic1992 Před 6 lety +1

      What Nintendo "can" but didn't do.

    • @yannickhacking6370
      @yannickhacking6370 Před 6 lety

      normal guy Well.. If i would ask my friend of the "Genisis" everyone would say : "What the fuck is that?" If i'd ask about the SNES they would say : "o yea i know that thing."

  • @andrewgibbons6074
    @andrewgibbons6074 Před 5 lety +14

    I loved all my old Sega consoles in fact I still have them all and still play them all regularly

    • @johntracy72
      @johntracy72 Před 4 lety

      Do you also have the Sega CD and/or 32X add ons?

    • @tacocats2244
      @tacocats2244 Před 3 lety

      I NEED to get the game Cube, or the wii that is game cube compatible, I MUST PLAY SANIC ADVENTURE 2 BATTLE

    • @ramihaj2993
      @ramihaj2993 Před 3 lety

      I still have my dreamcast and I'm still happy with it

  • @soldmomforwater8772
    @soldmomforwater8772 Před 4 lety +82

    "Sega does what Nintendon't" is just first "Fortnite bad, Minecraft good"

    • @marr_cel
      @marr_cel Před 4 lety +1

      ?

    • @BluBerry3
      @BluBerry3 Před 4 lety +6

      Yes, Fortnite is bad.

    • @lumarisreyes9894
      @lumarisreyes9894 Před 3 lety +1

      @@BluBerry3 I know What the real point of that stupid game

    • @unknownwill4th549
      @unknownwill4th549 Před 3 lety +4

      Keanu chungus wholesome 100 reddit moment 😀i beat up a kid that said minecraft bad 😂and my doggo bit him so i gave him snaccos😉 and we watched pewdiepie together while in elon musk’s cyber truck 😳talking about how superior reddit memers are : “haha emojis bad” 😲i said and keanu reeves came outta nowhere and said “this is wholesome 100, updoot this wholesome boy” 😗so i got alot of updoots and edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger😣. but the kind stranger revealed himself to be baby yoda eating chiccy nuggies😨 and drinking choccy milk😎 so we went to the cinema to see our (communism funny) favorite movies avengers endgame😆 but then thor played fortnite and fortnite bad😡, so then i said “reality is often dissappointing” and then baby yoda replied r/unexpectedthanos and i replied by r/expectedthanos😖 for balance and then danny devito came to pick us up from the cinema😩 and all the insta normies and gay mods stood watching😵 ,as we,superior redditors went home with danny devito to suck on his magnum dong😫 but i said no homo and started sucking,not like those gay mods😮,then the next morning we woke up to MrBeast telling us to plant 69420 million trees😌, me, baby yoda and danny said nice, and then on our way to plant 69420 million trees😊 (nice) we saw a kid doing a tiktok so keanu reeves appeared and said “we have a kid to burn” and i replied “you’re breathtaking”😄 so i said “i need a weapon” and baby yoda gave me an RPG so i blew the kid (DESTRUCTION 100)😎 and posted it on r/memes and r/dankmemes and r/pewdiepiesubmissions and got 1000000000 updoots😘,i’m sure pewds will give me a big pp, then we shat on emoji users😂😂 and started dreaming about girls that will never like me😢 and posted a lie on r/teenagers about how i got a GF after my doggo died by the hands of fortnite players😳 so i exploited his death for updoots😜, but i watched the sunset with the wholesome gang😁 (keanu,danny,Mrbeast, pewds, spongebob,stefan karl , bob ross, steve irwin, baby yoda and other artists that reddit exploits them) [Everyone liked that] WHOLESOME 100 REDDIT 100🤡

    • @unknownwill4th549
      @unknownwill4th549 Před 3 lety +1

      @@lumarisreyes9894 Keanu chungus wholesome 100 reddit moment 😀i beat up a kid that said minecraft bad 😂and my doggo bit him so i gave him snaccos😉 and we watched pewdiepie together while in elon musk’s cyber truck 😳talking about how superior reddit memers are : “haha emojis bad” 😲i said and keanu reeves came outta nowhere and said “this is wholesome 100, updoot this wholesome boy” 😗so i got alot of updoots and edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger😣. but the kind stranger revealed himself to be baby yoda eating chiccy nuggies😨 and drinking choccy milk😎 so we went to the cinema to see our (communism funny) favorite movies avengers endgame😆 but then thor played fortnite and fortnite bad😡, so then i said “reality is often dissappointing” and then baby yoda replied r/unexpectedthanos and i replied by r/expectedthanos😖 for balance and then danny devito came to pick us up from the cinema😩 and all the insta normies and gay mods stood watching😵 ,as we,superior redditors went home with danny devito to suck on his magnum dong😫 but i said no homo and started sucking,not like those gay mods😮,then the next morning we woke up to MrBeast telling us to plant 69420 million trees😌, me, baby yoda and danny said nice, and then on our way to plant 69420 million trees😊 (nice) we saw a kid doing a tiktok so keanu reeves appeared and said “we have a kid to burn” and i replied “you’re breathtaking”😄 so i said “i need a weapon” and baby yoda gave me an RPG so i blew the kid (DESTRUCTION 100)😎 and posted it on r/memes and r/dankmemes and r/pewdiepiesubmissions and got 1000000000 updoots😘,i’m sure pewds will give me a big pp, then we shat on emoji users😂😂 and started dreaming about girls that will never like me😢 and posted a lie on r/teenagers about how i got a GF after my doggo died by the hands of fortnite players😳 so i exploited his death for updoots😜, but i watched the sunset with the wholesome gang😁 (keanu,danny,Mrbeast, pewds, spongebob,stefan karl , bob ross, steve irwin, baby yoda and other artists that reddit exploits them) [Everyone liked that] WHOLESOME 100 REDDIT 100🤡

  • @jncubed1287
    @jncubed1287 Před 6 lety +253

    now do "what kind of ruined Nintendo for a while but then it seems to fix itself"

    • @veraducks
      @veraducks Před 6 lety +80

      They narrowly dodged the same thing that many Japanese companies fell victim to, including Sega in this video:
      Ignoring/underestimating the Western market trends and adhering to strict traditionalism.

    • @isaiahrivers7117
      @isaiahrivers7117 Před 6 lety +26

      I mind him doing a "what's wrong" with Nintendo video since even though Nintendo is still king or whatever they still have their problems and issues and all, but i'm wondering if Nintendo won't take down the video when he does make it since Nintendo seems to copyright anything that they don't like seeing or whatever i don't know.

    • @Camad
      @Camad Před 6 lety +6

      Simple.
      The incredible botched launch and life cycle of the Wii U.

    • @manuelalbertoromero9528
      @manuelalbertoromero9528 Před 6 lety +11

      +Camad203 So shouldn't it just be what ruined the WiiU then?

    • @jackgarcia5926
      @jackgarcia5926 Před 6 lety +4

      Manuel Alberto Romero
      Precisely, cause even though the Wii U was a massive failure, the 3Ds is still a success.

  • @OmarDelawar
    @OmarDelawar Před 6 lety +69

    The best part about this video is every time sega makes a mistake sonic cartoon goes “that’s no good” lol

  • @frempass3309
    @frempass3309 Před 2 lety +2

    sega before: makes games and consoles
    now: basically the same just without consoles

  • @timothyowens6532
    @timothyowens6532 Před 5 lety +8

    There was another handheld in 1995-2005. It’s called the sega pico. It’s a educational handheld.

    • @Ronicalter
      @Ronicalter Před 2 lety

      to recite from wikipedia, "Powered by the same hardware used in the Sega Genesis, the physical shape of the Pico was designed to appear similar to a laptop. Included in the Pico is a stylus called the "Magic Pen" and a pad to draw on. Controlling the games for the system is accomplished either by using the Magic Pen like a mouse or by pressing the directional buttons on the console. The Pico does not include its screen or RF output, and instead must be connected to a monitor through Composite video or a VCR to be played on an RF screen. Touching the pen to the pad would either allow drawing or animate a character on the screen."

  • @MKDumas1981
    @MKDumas1981 Před 5 lety +218

    Sega was always head of its time. 16-bit, internet connectivity, discs...the VMU system..
    The DreamCast is still my favorite system.

    • @TheBeatlesShow
      @TheBeatlesShow Před 5 lety +8

      @videoluver7 I sense a lack of gaming taste in somebody....

    • @TheBeatlesShow
      @TheBeatlesShow Před 5 lety +5

      @videoluver7 Eh, you to be honest.

    • @TheBeatlesShow
      @TheBeatlesShow Před 5 lety +1

      @videoluver7 SEGA, XBOX, MIDWAY, HEAVY IRON, ELECTRONIC ARTS, SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!
      There you have it.

    • @TheBeatlesShow
      @TheBeatlesShow Před 5 lety +1

      @videoluver7 I'm trying to say that SEGA is the best!

    • @soulsoffairlight
      @soulsoffairlight Před 5 lety +8

      Dreamcast is love
      Dreamcast is life
      To me, *It's still thinking*

  • @stevenmattrell3448
    @stevenmattrell3448 Před 5 lety +262

    “Sega does what Nintendon’t”
    (Goes third party)

    • @ianbowling9396
      @ianbowling9396 Před 5 lety +11

      OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ROASTED!

    • @stanstanstan2597
      @stanstanstan2597 Před 4 lety +7

      Dudes Average ironically the profile picture is Emboar, a Fire type Pokémon, and based on a pig.

    • @oosha2000
      @oosha2000 Před 4 lety +12

      More like Sega doesn't what Nintendoes

    • @Reddebrek46
      @Reddebrek46 Před 4 lety +23

      Nintendo is what Sega Genesisn't

    • @toddlane733
      @toddlane733 Před 4 lety +2

      @@oosha2000 too bad now days the Nintendo about to do the same thing the only mascots that is still keeping them afloat is Mario and the legend of Zelda series if sony Xbox let not forget the PC with emulators can play lots of these games as well

  • @JamesKelly89
    @JamesKelly89 Před 4 lety +8

    I'm still mourning the death of the DreamCast all these years later.

  • @Kieranhc
    @Kieranhc Před 3 lety +7

    I think that the 32X played a larger role in ending Sega's hardware line than this video implies.

    • @brettknoss486
      @brettknoss486 Před 3 měsíci

      If they worked with flare technologies on what would become the Atari Jaguar, and designed in an adaptor that included a zilog z80 to add backwards compatability by working with the Motorola 68000, they could have had a buyback/used sale program to expand G/MD access, instead of trying to improve it. This could have bought more time to develop a true 64 bit system.

  • @giovanniorellana2200
    @giovanniorellana2200 Před 6 lety +403

    Sega will always be here, but the system will not. I believe that's what the Nostagia Critic said.

    • @AngelofSpeed
      @AngelofSpeed Před 6 lety +6

      Giovanni Orellana
      What episode did he say that?

    • @koloth5139
      @koloth5139 Před 6 lety +24

      And Sega could still make good games without worrying about the hardware. But for the most part they don't. I believed when they made the announcement that it would be great for them. They always had a handful of games I wanted to play, I just never wanted to play them bad enough to get the hardware. Sega is a company that has been eating itself from within for years. They have so much potential but they so rarely live up to it.

    • @nine_tails137
      @nine_tails137 Před 6 lety +7

      +Giovanni Orellana Close, but the saying actually went like this:
      SEGA! the "Challenge" will always be there, but the system will not.

    • @joanthetraveler3482
      @joanthetraveler3482 Před 6 lety +2

      I think that it was Segata

    • @cocoroach_ok
      @cocoroach_ok Před 6 lety +3

      Segata sanshiro!!

  • @SegaDisneyUniverse
    @SegaDisneyUniverse Před 6 lety +159

    Every time he says Sega, the "That's no good!" scene gets slower.

    • @no-dm2rr
      @no-dm2rr Před 6 lety +10

      SegaDisney Then the last time, it didn't play at all lol

    • @Deadbass_
      @Deadbass_ Před 6 lety +3

      That's when you know the scene's been overplayed lmao

    • @locomotivefaox
      @locomotivefaox Před 6 lety +6

      SegaDisney annoys me how he mispronounces it’s like dude whenever you boot a sega published or made game

    • @kylearmstrong3935
      @kylearmstrong3935 Před 6 lety

      Not segga, its prounounced sayga. Shit got me fucking triggered

  • @julioromero238
    @julioromero238 Před 2 lety +3

    Poor sega Japan, didn't understand the western market at all.

  • @Emmaniak
    @Emmaniak Před 4 lety +4

    Me: Sonic, I want to tell you. I love yo-
    Sonic: That's no Good!

  • @MariusUrucu
    @MariusUrucu Před 6 lety +28

    So long story short, SEGA of Japan is the reason for the entirety of SEGA's failures. Got it.
    Ironically, SEGA's feud with its different branches exists to this day. Yeah...

    • @brandonontama2415
      @brandonontama2415 Před 6 lety +10

      OH MY, YOUR HERE TO! But yes I agree Sega pride killed them, and it's sad to hear that Sega never really got over this problem. Screw Sega of Japan.

    • @MariusUrucu
      @MariusUrucu Před 6 lety +8

      Sonic Badass The video popped up in my recommended and decided to give it a watch :).
      I already knew about most of this before. And while SEGA's isn't around making consoles, they are at least keeping arcade-like games and the arcade spirit alive along with Platinum.
      Because God help us, we need arcade games in this day and age, especially to counter balance the rise in popularity of "cinematic" games like TLOU or the upcoming new God of War game *shudders*

    • @brandonontama2415
      @brandonontama2415 Před 6 lety +3

      I see another brother of the TLOU is overrated club Imao.

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 Před 6 lety

      No. Don't comment on something you know nothing about.

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 Před 6 lety

      They are not. They had nothing to do with SEGA's failures.

  • @tomcat978
    @tomcat978 Před 5 lety +42

    As a Kid, I used to play E.T. for hours.
    I had no idea it wasn't "good." LOL

    • @maybeim2372
      @maybeim2372 Před 5 lety

      Tom Cat , How?

    • @Ibhenriksen
      @Ibhenriksen Před 5 lety +1

      @@maybeim2372 He probably thought it would open up a portal to a better game.

    • @athousandfeethigh
      @athousandfeethigh Před 4 lety

      To be fair, that's what they were banking on

    • @TravJam317
      @TravJam317 Před 4 lety

      To be fair, E.T wasn't THAT bad, though. There were much worse 2600 games. Albeit, they weren't as high profile.

    • @TheSilentEvil
      @TheSilentEvil Před 4 lety +1

      It's no good...

  • @Kodeb8
    @Kodeb8 Před 3 lety +38

    Sega's biggest enemy was not Nintendo
    It was Sega

  • @gtx-808
    @gtx-808 Před 4 lety +14

    I'm Sega fan & my kid loves sonic the Dreamcast was a legend I wish they would comeback but Sony still the boss so I don't know what would happen

    • @Kinomiyasan
      @Kinomiyasan Před 4 lety +1

      That’s why my uncle and my other uncle like PlayStation and Nintendo and they don’t care for sega and when I go to my friends house he’s and sega fan but he only plays xbox is it weird for me to like PlayStation and sega

    • @user-sp2jg9rx8r
      @user-sp2jg9rx8r Před 3 lety

      English please!

    • @Kinomiyasan
      @Kinomiyasan Před 3 lety +1

      @@user-sp2jg9rx8r I'm not even English anyway

  • @brandonontama2415
    @brandonontama2415 Před 6 lety +26

    I think the issues is that Sonic is their mascot, so whenever they do something stupid with him it reflects badly on the whole company.

    • @manuelalbertoromero9528
      @manuelalbertoromero9528 Před 6 lety +12

      And boy have they done some dumb stuff with him. Sometimes I ask myself why Sonic team keeps making these games if they keep screwing up Sonic in some way or another.

    • @dapperblookanimations226
      @dapperblookanimations226 Před 6 lety +11

      At this point sonic should be ripped away from Sega, sonic team, or both. Sega ruined most of 06's potential and Sega and sonic team both destroyed boom(synergy) and threw big red button under the bus. I'm still bitter that people still call BRB a crappy developer when it was Sega and sonic team.
      Sonic needs to be given to people that care.

    • @brandonontama2415
      @brandonontama2415 Před 6 lety

      Agreed.

    • @dapperblookanimations226
      @dapperblookanimations226 Před 6 lety +2

      Sonic Badass Hopped one day.

  • @neoasura
    @neoasura Před 5 lety +668

    Simple Answer: Sega Of Japan ruined Sega

    • @noirking6138
      @noirking6138 Před 5 lety +91

      EXACTLY! This seemed like a pride and ego situation with them. Had they let Sega America run free with the decisions like they said, it could've been the Playstation console as we know it. smh

    • @dvnchaos2
      @dvnchaos2 Před 5 lety +2

      @James Earl Cash Or, yknow, download an emulator and dump your games and never clean squat again. I like NeVeR having to blow out cartridges again. and then you can properly store the consoles as collectibles.

    • @hydrocarbon8272
      @hydrocarbon8272 Před 5 lety +14

      @@noirking6138 Can you imagine if the N64 had a CD option? If the PS1 & PS2 had Sega's full support? Even if they weren't better, you'd have the PS2 & DC in one, which were already fantastic alone. Oh well...

    • @silvinaaguilar7471
      @silvinaaguilar7471 Před 5 lety

      simple, ww2.

    • @johnphillips5310
      @johnphillips5310 Před 5 lety

      Indeed

  • @vice2344
    @vice2344 Před 2 lety +3

    Menwhile in Sega Japan: We have failed (Multuable stab sounds)

  • @sideparting6845
    @sideparting6845 Před 5 lety +13

    Some amazing games written for these lowly machines with hardly any RAM. Today's coders have no idea on how to do things with limited resources.
    I remember playing the mega drive at a school friend's house. Sonic was bafflingly fast. This obsession with speed was how I remember them, including the excellent f-zero gx for Nintendo GameCube. Superb.

    • @BakiX
      @BakiX Před 4 lety

      Best FZero game imo, and my personal favorite racing game of all time lol.

    • @steffennilsen2132
      @steffennilsen2132 Před 4 lety +2

      It helps that the cartridge format lets the console access its content roughly as fast as its internal ram. Look at the famicom disk system, it had to have enough ram to store the games prior to running. The devs today know pretty well how to work within such constraints, but writing assembly code is incredibly tedious, an experienced game programmer could for example write a game engine from scratch that mimics smb3 in capability within days, a feat that would take months in assembly. The other factor is that the old systems had hard limitations on sprites on screen and other resource limitations, its a lot easier to plan for such strict limitations than writing general game engines that has to support anything a level designer wish to throw in there.

  • @LikaLaruku
    @LikaLaruku Před 6 lety +147

    SEGA of America: "We have good ideas that people will actually like."
    SEGA of Japan. "No, use our bad old-people ideas instead."

  • @LincolnBerryIII
    @LincolnBerryIII Před 6 lety +95

    You forgot to mention that SEGA made it prohibitive for developers to develop for the SEGA Saturn, which contained a proprietary chipset that was difficult and expensive to code for. Some game developers went as far as to reverse-engineer SEGA games to try to learn more about how to develop for the Saturn, only to have SEGA sue them instead of providing better documentation! A lawsuit which SEGA embarrassingly lost in the end, because it was ruled that preventing developers from reverse-engineering SEGA games wasn't ruled as patent infringement, but instead stifled competition in the open market. In short, SEGA wound-up competing with its own loyal developers over the Saturn console.

    • @Anakunus
      @Anakunus Před 6 lety

      Incorrect. PSX was never released outside of Japan.

    • @vh9network
      @vh9network Před 6 lety +1

      Mackenzie Peters no worries, before the PSX DVR unit came out many referred to the first PlayStation as PSX, because "PSX" was initially the console's code name. People starting calling PlayStation PS1 when the successor PS2 came out. Before that it was often abbreviated as PS or PSX.

    • @Anakunus
      @Anakunus Před 6 lety

      "Code name"? So, PlayStation's name was often abbreviated as with its code name, despite that other consoles have not been treated with such practice? Most illogical.

    • @vh9network
      @vh9network Před 6 lety +1

      Anakunus other consoles? Most systems have code names. It's certainly logical. To me it's illogical to even ask this question.

    • @Anakunus
      @Anakunus Před 6 lety

      No. A logical thing would be to abbreviate other consoles with their code names, yet that is not done. Thus, referring to PlayStation with its code name is illogical.

  • @MaherandIbrahimsAvengers
    @MaherandIbrahimsAvengers Před 3 lety +3

    I just loved how part of the Sega Gennises advertising was making fun of Nintedno

  • @tylerl3030
    @tylerl3030 Před 5 lety +11

    12:36
    *D U S T M Y D O I L I E S*

  • @lilianaguero5071
    @lilianaguero5071 Před 5 lety +52

    Decades later, Sonic has gotten his first live-action movie starring James Marsden.

  • @editmanrgg2844
    @editmanrgg2844 Před 6 lety +42

    Never thought you do a video game company

  • @PhoenixDaFox8218
    @PhoenixDaFox8218 Před rokem +4

    What ruined Sega?
    Two words.
    Ken Penders.

  • @gtx-808
    @gtx-808 Před 4 lety +11

    When I was a kid I thought Xbox belong to Sega cause u would see it every were it turns out Sega was making all these games for it 😭

    • @adriandelatorreebro9555
      @adriandelatorreebro9555 Před 4 lety +4

      Microsoft and Sega have always had a great relationship. For example, now SEGA is launching Yakuza games on the Xbox Game Pass.

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 Před 3 lety +2

      Actually that was intended and the idea was thrown around to make the X-box be able to play dreamcast games. However that ultimately proved to be too difficult.

  • @Bem_flanc
    @Bem_flanc Před 6 lety +17

    It's hilarious to see how fucking savage most of these old console commercials were.

    • @a.liguria2698
      @a.liguria2698 Před 6 lety +4

      And plain OFFENSIVE TOO !
      Basically all the commercials were saying that whoevere owned a Nintendo was an idiot.

    • @dr6559
      @dr6559 Před 6 lety +1

      A. Liguria Well didn't that end well?

  • @DOCTOR.DEADHEAD
    @DOCTOR.DEADHEAD Před 6 lety +35

    Well it's safe to say Sega of *Japan's* decisions contributing to their downfall is the opposite of what I was expecting.

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety

      No, its not.

    • @ruthad2736
      @ruthad2736 Před 6 lety +1

      ^^ the guy here is everywhere on this kind of comment like bots man...
      //dont attack me here i know nothing about consoles...cuz my parents never let me to buy any consoles. Whether that’d be Switch, PS, Xbox, DS, or even pc games and steam vouchers. *sigh*//

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety

      Sega of Japan didn't make any decisions, their Parent Company CSK did.

    • @irllcd13
      @irllcd13 Před 6 lety +2

      It doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

  • @thatguyoverthere2381
    @thatguyoverthere2381 Před 5 lety +3

    17:27
    Imagine having a console that big and how big the screen would have to be to make it a giant version of the original.

  • @demaunix2723
    @demaunix2723 Před 3 lety +7

    The depressing moment you realize that Sonic 64 could've been a thing

  • @Btm10000
    @Btm10000 Před 6 lety +59

    *THAT'S NO GOOD...*

  • @Shy411
    @Shy411 Před 5 lety +850

    Who still sings the Sega jingle...SEEEEGAAA!!!

  • @worawatsr9803
    @worawatsr9803 Před 4 lety +5

    The fall of Sega can be summarized into 1 word. $299.

  • @franklopez481
    @franklopez481 Před 4 lety +1

    This reminded me of those old playvalue videos about the history of gaming . They did one on the Sega/ Nintendo wars, but I love the details in this one

  • @Chyna_Doll
    @Chyna_Doll Před 6 lety +69

    Early 90s Sega: "Sonic shouldn't have a human girlfriend"
    2006 Sega: CHECK OUT OUR GAME WHERE SONIC GETS A HUMAN GIRLFRIEND...

  • @keynanmartinez
    @keynanmartinez Před 5 lety +191

    SEGA also created one of the best arcade rail shooters The House Of The Dead.

    • @curtismynameheard4628
      @curtismynameheard4628 Před 5 lety +5

      I got house of the dear 2 on dream cast that game is sooo cool

    • @samsquatchrivera1032
      @samsquatchrivera1032 Před 5 lety +3

      Bro I would play that game for hours!! Remember Leathal Enforcers?

    • @drunkensailor112
      @drunkensailor112 Před 5 lety +6

      And even better: virtua cop.

    • @rashaad3717
      @rashaad3717 Před 5 lety

      Damn I forgot about that game

    • @meltonthegamer
      @meltonthegamer Před 5 lety

      SEGA created most of the best arcade rail shooters, and so many other great arcade games 🚀

  • @Kagemusha08
    @Kagemusha08 Před 3 lety +9

    Pretty amazing just how often Sega makes terrible strategic decisions.

  • @carlcarlington7317
    @carlcarlington7317 Před 3 lety +13

    A sega Microsoft partnership would've been perfect with sega branding giving the consoles credibility in Japan and Microsoft giving the console a huge push by selling the dreamcast bundled with sonic adventure, and fucking halo.

  • @RaccoonAnimations
    @RaccoonAnimations Před 6 lety +57

    Thats no good

  • @driprappy
    @driprappy Před 6 lety +1089

    Sonic Mania took the bullet out of SEGA’s foot.
    And then Sonic Forces shot it back in. Double-barrel shotgun.
    Actually, that foot's gonna have to be amputated.

    • @StephySon
      @StephySon Před 6 lety +152

      Lange not really if you think about it, for the sake of argument if Mania didn't exist Forces would have been your typical average Sonic game. Mania was a pleasant surprise to many hardcore players and Forces fun for the passionate fan base that at least had a fun character creation and good soundtrack. Far better then Sonic Boom at least (which I know isn't saying much but still)

    • @daseal1479
      @daseal1479 Před 6 lety +118

      StephySon That's exactly how I see it. Its still sad that SEGA has a HUGE library of characters and franchise to bank off from veterans or newcomers, but they never take those risks anymore. They are like a washed-out, 3rd party Nintendo, and that's incredibly depressing to me.

    • @sussy3778
      @sussy3778 Před 6 lety +97

      I think what he meant was that Sonic Mania managed to elevate the image of the Sonic franchise, and Sonic Forces went down again ...

    • @shardfox0662
      @shardfox0662 Před 6 lety +77

      I believe Forces cut off the foot instead of putting the bullet back in. Now all we need is a game recognized by all Sonic fans young and old alike to make SEGA a prosthetic foot.

    • @manuelalbertoromero9528
      @manuelalbertoromero9528 Před 6 lety +67

      These are some painful metaphors.

  • @fanofrobloxso9445
    @fanofrobloxso9445 Před 3 lety +3

    well sonic and mario arent vs eachother cuz sonic do like mario as friend

  • @toastybutondifferentacc5775

    "what ruined Sega?"
    Treasure didn't make all it's games

  • @mix3k818
    @mix3k818 Před 6 lety +1474

    I just really wish to buy a console and a video game and hear "SEEEEGAAAAA" one day in 2020 or beyond.

    • @cristianherrera493
      @cristianherrera493 Před 6 lety +56

      MiREK that day may never come😢

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety +1

      No they aren't. You appear to be the incompetent one because you typed that all up, so assure of yourself.

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety +4

      Yes it will. Look out April 2018!

    • @segaunited3855
      @segaunited3855 Před 6 lety +3

      RAZOR is STILL coming, don't fret.
      Its prototype will go on display at incoming Cons next Spring.

    • @mix3k818
      @mix3k818 Před 6 lety +6

      Sega United I hope you're right.