Because of the amazingly crushingly horrible no good failure that is Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (and Shattered Crystals for the 3DS), SEGA is now looking away from console development and are moving towards mobile games. Here are my two reasons why SEGA is failing not just as a company, but also the products they provide.
1. Sonic, Sonic, Sonic, Sonic, NOTHING ELSE
One reason is that I feel like SEGA doesn't use its array of IPs (Intellectual Property for the under-educated). As such, they make Sonic game after Sonic game, this doesn't count games that SEGA has published but games they developed (or outsourced). No new Space Harrier, no new Streets of Rage, no new Golden Axe, not even a Hang-On or Monaco GP, just the blue nuisance. So they milked the life out of Sonic and now they're beating a dead hedgehog. The quality of any Sonic game post-2001 is like going to a rigged casino, there's a few winners, but mostly losers that bankrupted themselves by being gimmicky and such. Even though SEGA isn't selling much of the blue dude (mostly due to poor quality and reviews spread fast, especially the bad ones), that doesn't mean that we should outright replace him (even though I think that a new mascot contest should be in order, or some love be sent to Alex Kidd). Which brings me to my next subject on the topic.
2. "You're a mean one, Nakayama"
Okay, so he's not that malicious but he kinda bullied SOA to release the Saturn early, not to mention SOA didn't want to release the 32X but did anyway. SEGA's corporate civil war would go on to cripple the company's chance of being successful and eventually bite the console dust and make sub-par Sonic games until the world ends of some cataclysmic horror. So SOA and SOJ had some a blue coat/grey coat situation. But if SOA didn't release the 32X or cancelled the black plastic mushroom cloud in the first place AND SOJ let SOA release the Saturn to there own accord (and made the console less of a mess to develop for) maybe SEGA would still be in the console market (best case) or lasted one more console after the Dreamcast (semi-worst case) or having a few more million bucks to spend on some QA improvement (worse case). Also, maybe if SOJ took some risk during those days, maybe they would have a larger foothold. Nonetheless, there was also Bernie Stolar, whom without, SEGA may have had a softer landing from their challenger sized explosion of failure.
Quotes that are in context of this topic:
"Oh the shame of it!" -Gordon from Edward's day out
"Here's the problem! Too many toasters!" -Mario from Hotel Mario
"There were a couple of guys! Who were up to no good, started makin trouble in the neighborhood!" -Intro theme from Fresh Prince of Bel-air
"What the actual fuck?" -Mr. Enter
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