No, it wasn't that at all. That was Sega of America being directed by a moron: They kept the Master System under support well into the life of the Genesis, Genesis got CDs before even the Playstation existed and the only competition there were Laseractive (with a giant laser disk), 3DO and CDi (all three of those failed hard as HECK), they had to make a SECOND VERSION OF THE CD, the CD2, due to the second version of the Genesis, the 32X was made because they ignored Japan was launching the Saturn (which then they launched with a "sneaky" release). I wouldn't blame the developers for the fall of the Fourth and Half Generation (also known as: What came between the 16 Bit war and the advent of the PlayStation), it fell under it's own weight. you want to know what was in the same route as those? The Virtual Boy. I MEAN IT.