>>10883352
>Nope. Debunked.
Just because you say that doesn't make it true.
> Nintendo, Sony, etc all had extra stock in storage.
No they didn't. Nintendo, Konami, and Capcom did take losses like Sega in 1994, but that was due to overestimating demand of new 16-bit games. Sega had over 2x the losses because they also had the issue of returns.

Nintendo did NOT have that issue. The proof is in the fact that there was never a massive dump of unsold SNES and Gameboy games on cheap retailers in 1998. There was however a dump of Genesis and Game Gear games on cheap retailers in 1998 because that's when Sega liquidated the unsold inventory and cut their losses with it. We know this is when this happened as they mention it in their FY98 review.

> That's how American retail works
That is NOT how American retail works at all. I've worked retail in the US and know how the ordering works. You almost NEVER get to return unsold stock. That's why you need to be smart about what you order because if you order too much you're stuck with it.

That claim is what Kalinske told Irimajiri to cover his ass. The reality is Kalinske made that deal to get Sega into stores but never went back and renegotiated after sales picked up. So eventually it came back to bite them in the ass.

>Lastly, Sega of America also sells Sega arcade machines and they were selling a huge amount.
And that's a separate division from the home console division. That's accounted separately.

>Oh wait, your "leak" doesn't have that info does it?
Why are you quoting leak like it isn't real? The leaked documents are 100% real and you can go look through them yourself.

>>10883357
Yet Kalinske's story doesn't align with any of the Japanese side or even all of his own US coworkers. So either there's a massive conspiracy against Kalinske, or Kalinske isn't telling the whole truth. I'm betting on the latter.

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