Former CEO of Sega’s American division – Tom Kalinske, has slated former gaming giants Sega for it’s current state in the industry, claiming that the company has been making ‘wrong decisions’ for 20 years.

Discussing the relocation of Sega’s San Francisco offices, Kalinske said the following;

“It could have been avoided if they had made the right decisions going back literally 20 years ago. But they seem to have made the wrong decisions for 20 years. You have to really make a lot of mistakes to kill a strong brand. I do think some great brands obviously have been destroyed, Atari being one of them. Why didn’t that survive? I think there’s a lot of bad decision making involved in killing brands like that. I hope Sega isn’t the same thing.”

The scathing words will come as no surprise to gamers who grew up with Sega. How they managed to go from one of the biggest gaming companies to what they are now, makes absolutely no sense. Even Sonic can’t save them.