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[Anonymous No.3290670]

>Be Sega of Japan
>Make awesome games
>Get hated on internet

>Be Sega of America
>Make shit sholveware
>Get praised on internet.

[Anonymous No.3290676]

but I've read Kalinske said he was awesome and he saved sega and Sega of japan are evil suit men who wanted sega to fail

[Anonymous No.3290684]

>>3290676
X-Perts, best Sega game of all time, will save Genesis!

[Anonymous No.3290687]

>>3290670
>>Make shit sholveware
DELETE THIS

[Anonymous No.3290693]

>>3290670
>Be SEGA
>Make shitty fartwave games
>Get shit on by Nintendo anyways

[Anonymous No.3290696]

>>3290687
>Be SoA
>Make good game
>Not market properly and let it bomb

[Anonymous No.3290702]

>>3290676
- Makes a lot of money based on aggressive marketing AND great games developed by SOJ AND great hardware design by SOJ -> Gets all the credit.
- Smokes millions on shitty FMV stuff -> Gets a free pass.
- Smokes millions on a Multimedia Studio which developed half a dozen of mediocre games -> Gets a free pass.
- Insult-based marketing campaign for the Game Gear with damage to Sega's image -> Gets a free pass.
- Retard FMV-based campaign for the Sega CD with potential damage to Sega's image -> Gets a free pass.
- Overpromising 32X's campaign ("40X faster" and etc.) with potential damage to Sega's image and Genesis status -> Gets a free pass.
- Poor damage control of the whole "Night Trap" and violent games bs -> Gets a free pass.
- Saturn's awkward and retard advertising campaign -> Gets a free pass.
- Sets up STI with major technical support from SOJ -> Gets all the credit for the good part of the results.
- Fails to deliver a consistent quality control for SOA-subcontracted developed games -> Gets a free pass.
- Fails to build a productive in-house or second party development team -> Gets a free pass.
- Fails to localize several great games and never releases in US some very good/great games released in Europe -> Gets a free pass.

[Anonymous No.3290704]

>>3290702
- Whores out the Sonic brand with the mediocre Sonic Spinball -> Gets praised for the number of units sold.
- Promotes shitty stuff like the "Activator" -> Gets a free pass.
- Loses a lot of market share after so much money smoked on bs -> Gets a free pass.
- Sonic X-Treme debacle -> Gets a free pass.
- Promotes a partnership with Sony and share info with them without SOJ's approval -> Gets a free pass.
- Supports the Joe Miller's 32X design with no real support for 3D -> Gets a free pass.
- 32X released in US with major retailers supply issues -> Gets a free pass.
- Retard surprise launch of the Saturn -> Gets a free pass.
- Fails to sell the "millions" of 32X units like he had envisioned and promised to all media -> Blames SOJ for everything.
- Fails to sell the Saturn in US -> Blames SOJ for everything.
- Blames SOJ for all SOA's failures under his management -> Gets praised by internet

[Anonymous No.3290870]

>>3290670
But SoJ makes bad business decisions.

[Anonymous No.3290894]

>>3290693
Thank you Autismo!

(Can someone post the good sleep chihuahua? I'm getting ready for bed soon and want to sleep well.)

[Anonymous No.3291007]

>>3290704

>Retard surprise launch of the Saturn

Saturn came out in Japan before 32x did. They were paranoid about launching their system after the competition like during the 8 bit era, and so with playstation coming out the door sooner than expected things needed to get done in a hurry.

[Anonymous No.3291012]

>>3290702
>>3290704

The good outweighed the bad. He raised SOA to its pinnacle of greatness.

[Anonymous No.3291091]

>>3291012
All he did was bundle Sonic with the genesis. That's the only good thing he did. The genesis would have been popular either way with another CEO or another marketing team.

[Anonymous No.3291649]

A lot of what Kalinske claims credit for was done under his predecessor, Michael Katz.

[Anonymous No.3291669]

Developers and management don't go hand in hand. Sega of Japan had great developers but horrible management. SoA may have put out some shovelware but they were very successful in marketing.

[Anonymous No.3291749]

>>3291669

They were only successful because of the Sega Genesis bundle with Sonic 1. The aggressive marketing was always really seen as tasteless, that's not what made the Genesis popular in USA, it was Sonic and the fact the Genesis had real good games and it was more affordable than the SNES in general, if only a little bit. Marketing alone doesn't make miracles if your product isn't good.

[Anonymous No.3291771]

>>3291749
I'm no marketing or management expert, but if the reason was simply the good games, why was the Mega Drive unable to compete in Japan? Especially considering Sega arcade games have always been reasonably successful there.

[Anonymous No.3291792]

>>3291771

Mega Drive wasn't a total failure in Japan, it was just a more niche console.
Different demographics, etc, but the MD still had more presence in Japan than the SMS in USA.

The reason for Genesis being successful in the west (not just USA) was the games, Sonic being a huge factor, and the price.
In Japan it also had to compete with PC Engine, something that barely existed in the west.

[Anonymous No.3291794]

>>3290704
Sonic Spinball was good though. Not great, but a cool little budget title.

Infinitely better than the shit they made later like Sonic Shuffle.

[Anonymous No.3291801]

>>3290696
The greatest thing Sega of America produced was this masterpiece. Vectorman is pretty close, though.

Everything else can suck a fat bag of shit, and a big fuck you to both Sega of America and Sega of Japan for euthanizing Eternal Champions 3. Were it not for abysmal marketing of shovelware (X-Perts and Chicago Syndicate), Mortal Kombat would've had a serious challenger.

[Anonymous No.3291803]

>>3290704
>- Retard surprise launch of the Saturn -> Gets a free pass.

That was forced on them by SOJ.

>- Sonic X-Treme debacle -> Gets a free pass.

Also SOJ partially to blame. They kept shooting down any ideas the dev team had, told the dev team to rewrite the game, didn't give them a complete engine, etc.

>- Fails to sell the Saturn in US -> Blames SOJ for everything.

Saturn was dead from the start because of the early launch, and he wasn't allowed to do fuck all about it since SOJ did not let him. Genesis got a shit ton of good local games, Saturn was not allowed to have any other than Bug.

[Anonymous No.3292510]

>>3290670
What? There's nothing but love for SoJ games. While there's constant shitting on SoA games like Xmen and Tazmania. Rightfully so.

[Anonymous No.3292540]

>>3292510

Taz-Mania wasn't thaaat bad, it was a bit shitty but still enjoyable.

There's other SoA turds like Fantasia though.