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>This is sort of irrelevant. If people want to buy the Saturn, retailers will want to sell. That's how they make money. It was only a temporary thing too.

Where do you think they will buy it from you stupid fucking zoomer? Order it from sega's online store? Put up Craiglist ads? You didn't have webshops or ebay in 1995, if people wanted to buy a console, they got it from Walmart and Toys'R'Us and any other retailer that carried the consoles. But nobody could buy consoles that retailers DID NOT CARRY.

And nobody wanted to carry Sega consoles because they were sick to fuck about Sega releasing more and more new hardware that didn't even last one marketing cycle and left all retailers with tons of unsold inventory to write off. The 32x in particular had a years worth of marketing material set up, and Sega pissed in everyones pockets by demanding that they put the 30 000 Saturns it launched with in the US in place of the 300 000 32xs already in stores. Stores said, lol, no, fuck you, and just ordered more Playstations.
Plus parents were sick to fuck from buying a new hardware every year only for it to get axed immediately. Plenty of people spent the 2000s and 2010s rediscovering the console because their parents told them they are not falling for this shit again, you are getting a Playstation instead.
It's why Sega took major fucking losses from 96 and onwards, retailers started sending back the millions of unsold Game Gears and 32xs and Activators that NOBODY WANTED and Sega had to dump them in landfills. The only thing they could keep selling was the mexican made Genesis 3 because it cost $50. Many kids didn't even knew the Saturn existed, they thought Sega went from Genesis to Dreamcast.

Stores not carrying the Saturn was not irrelevant. It killed the fucking company.

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