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In things we didn\u2019t expect to see today, internal documents from Sega have somehow leaked online, revealing that the company was confident it would beat PlayStation<\/strong> with its Saturn console. Emails dating back to 1996 show then Sega of America president, Tom Kalinske,\u00a0claim that Saturn was \u201ckilling\u201d Sony\u2019s PS1 in Japan.<\/p>\n In March 1996, Kalinske sent an email in which he expressed frustration with naysayers in the U.S. who thought that the PS1 was outdoing Saturn \u2014 a successor to the popular Genesis (Mega Drive). \u201cWe are killing Sony,\u201d he wrote after visiting numerous retail stores in Tokyo, where he apparently witnessed Saturn flying off store shelves. \u201cIn every store, Saturn is sold out and there are stacks of PlayStation,\u201d Kalinske continued, adding that Sega has better displays, better software, and better stocking at retail than Sony.<\/p>\n Saturn\u2019s initial success was short-lived, and so was Kalinske\u2019s optimism. PS1 sales soared and Saturn spelled doom for Sega\u2019s hardware business. In July 1996, Kalinske tendered his resignation. <\/p>\nSega acknowledged PlayStation\u2019s superior library of games<\/h2>\n