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>Never the console
>Never drew a dime
>Never had a good game outside Japan
>Sales tanked so hard Sega quit the console race after Dreamcast
>Difficult to develop due to complicated architecture and quads
>Only the 3rd best-selling 5th generation console
>Only the 3rd best when it comes to 3D rendering performance
>Jannetty to PlayStation and Nintendo 64 even later on in Japan
>Launch Daytona USA port badly optimized Sega Rally guys had to code a better port
>Sonic game development shafted so badly that FIVE Genesis Sonic games have to be ported
>High reliance on arcade ports
>High reliance on 2D shit because of shit 3D performance in era where 3D matters
>Every decent first-party Saturn game with international release had a PC port, further questioning relevance of Saturn
>4 MB memory arcade ports still suffer from animation frame cuts and no longer relevant thanks to arcade emulation
>Online services used by nobody
>Porn games literally allowed in Japan in pitiful attempt to get salarymen dimes, causing a ROM site to list a strip rock-paper-scissors game the most downloaded Saturn game at one point
>Existence pretty much erased from Sega's official history books outside Japan as a result of tanking Sega's console chances

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