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>>10062583
The Sega CD was fine, considering the situation it was released in. NEC/Hudson had released the PC-Engine CD, which was making Nintendo and Sega look kind of bad. If I'm not mistaken, the PC-Engine CD was actually the #2 console in Japan for a while, above the Mega Drive.

The 32X was a horrible idea, though.
Sad as it is to say, failures like the 32X and the Saturn's design were the symptoms of Sega's slow death, not the cause of it. In a competently managed company, there would be no 32X, the Saturn would have been a derivative of one of Sega's cutting-edge 3D arcade hardware designs, and there would have been a

>>10062616
Anecdotally, I remember the Dreamcast being fairly well received when it came out here in America. It's strange how American and Japanese fans seem to like different consoles; Americans seem to like the Genesis and Dreamcast best, Japanese like the Saturn the best, the Brazilians love their Master System, and there doesn't seem to be too much crossover outside of that.

Also I watched Ika Musume just because of the Genesis in the OP