Atari rejects Nintendo's NES deal after seeing Donkey Kong on the Coleco Adam, leaving them to be stuck with the Atari 7800. The NES dominates the North American video game market while the 7800 fades into obscurity.
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Top 10 Worst Decisions Made in Video Game History
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Sega Rushing the Sega Saturn Launch
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The decision to rush the Sega Saturn to market 4 months ahead of schedule irritated developers and retails left out of the deal. The PlayStation outsells the Saturn in its first two weeks on the market after Sony cut the price and focused on marketing games to the market.
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Commodore International Hiring Mehdi Ali as CEO
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Mehdi Ali's misguided leadership causes Commodore to go bankrupt in 1994 because of mismanagement of the company and the Amiga platform, as well as the release of failed products like the CDTV and the CD32.
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Ken Williams Sells Sierra to CUC International
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Sierra's quality game output declines after being sold to CUC International. The company is further devalued after Cendant Corporation is audited for accounting fraud.
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Nintendo Snubs Sony in SNES CD deal
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Sony's Expensive PS3 Launch
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Sony's risky gamble to build a Blu-ray disc drive and Cell Processor made the system expensive at launch and difficult to make games for. Even after turning fortunes around, Sony lost money on each system sold.
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Microsoft's Bungled Xbox One Launch
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Microsoft's reveal of the Xbox One made it look like a glorified TV box one can watch sports on. Even after changing focus and releasing the Xbox One X, the PS4 outsells the Xbox One 2 to 1.
