The Genesis was a great system, for sure--it was just up against a better one. The Saturn was a mess. Sega really botched that one. The hardware was far too difficult to develop for, and the much easier and cheaper PS1 just blew it away. Same goes for the Gamegear, really. It was too expensive and too big and just not competition for the Gameboy. The Dreamcast was a marvelous system, but they again botched the release, and the looming menace of the PS2 killed off a lot of anticipation and sales for it, especially in Japan.

And I think Roto's wrong about them doing fine. After merging with Sammy (Sammy, right?) a few years ago, they've really gone downhill. ty games, for the most part, and there's no sign of them pulling out of the rut. There's the ocassional gem like Virtua Fighter 5, but when they keep pumping out one ty Sonic game after another, and come up with subpar new franchises, I have to wonder if there's much hope left.