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Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. (lemmy.world)
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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

A vast majority of the public didn't do this or know how to do this.

It failed because the PS2 was dominating at the time, and Sega didn't know how to launch a console, even if they had a gun pointed at their head.