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How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day (lemmy.world)
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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sega was too early with several innovations like online game downloads, which meant they weren't profitable enough. Technically however they were ages ahead of the competition who later gladly absorbed their knowledge.