Because they are the ones who decide whether a game console tanks or not with their money.
You can't fault the consumer for not buying something that they are either unaware of or uninterested in. It's Sega's fault that they were unaware of it, and Sega's fault that they were uninterested. Plus, the price tag didn't help.
The Sega Saturn had the better games, in my opinion.
It had some good ones, and it had some simply awful ones, as far as I'm concerned. Besides, I think you'd find that a lot of people disagree with you.
Quality over quantity.
The thing is, it wasn't like the Saturn sports games were very much better than the Sony sports games, if they were at all. Marginally better, I think, would be appropriate. Furthermore, it's primarily the developers that control quality, so that's no indication of support on the console for that particular genre. If I'm afraid that a console is going to stop having sports games, and I like sports games, than I'm likely going to go to the other console no matter if the games on the other are better.






