ALH: Yeah that reflects what i have heard as well.Mismanagement.But still....so many wonderful memories from the Arcade to Sega Mega Drive and Dreamcast to Shenmue....Shenmue being arguably one of the greatest games ever made.....even recently played Alien: Isolation which i think is amazing.....Sega had a hand in that as well.....just doesn't seem right for Sega to ultimately be discarded.
Just look at what happened recently. A few months ago they put Valkyria Chronicles, a six years old game, on Steam, and it topped the sales charts in 24 hours.
Even being basically the shadow of their former self, they were able to make what's basically the best eastern stratetegic rpg of all times and they were able to make it flop by making it a PS3 exclusive, marketing it in the worst possible way, adding no language subtitles other than english to it and then they made the sequels directly on PSP, a less popular portable system with inferior hardware and consequent castrated features.
The Steam sales prove that with proper marketing choices, the game could have been a huge success, like Nintendo's Fire Emblem Awakening was, but they wasted its potential.
You can create the best IPs in the world, but if the management sucks, it doesn't mean anything.
The game designers at Sega even mocked the company's failure themselves, as Segagaga and, on a lesser extent, Compile Heart's Hyperdimension Neptunia showed.