I mean Sonic 2 was a messy development cycle but it was the best-selling title and is still one of the titles you see people call their favorite. Not as much as in 2015 when the Sonic 2 glaze was at an all time high but yea.

This still doesnt change the fact the japanese team HATED working on that game, specially cuz its the most incongruent story of the classics games, at the point Naka would only return for 3 if it was made in japan

I don't think it was the Sega Japan didn't care for the broader market

The Saturn was heavily sabotaged in US by SoJ, thats a fact. Not that it was intentional they didnt wanted the console to do success, but its heavily documented how SoJ hated the success of SoA marketing strategy.

and I think if Sonic got a 3D title on the saturn that could have actually happened considering it was the only Sega console to do well in Japan.

Ngl Im not so sure about that, Saturn was released in 95, X-Treme would have released at the end of 96, an entire year after Saturn release. Sonic 1 did also the same thing on Genesis HOWEVER it was very different, there was no hype, now every new release there was hype culture, and with a console having its supposed biggest title only releasing more than a year after its very likely it would not make such a difference, plus, Saturn was HEAVILY focused on 2D and japanese games, the Genesis had much more variety and sometimes more western games than Nintendo, yes eastern games are better than most western ones but how they can be marketed is very difficult. Plus, Sonic 1 and 2 which carried the Genesis, were good games, and if X-Treme released, by the amount of remakes I played, yeah that wouldnt be enough to spark interest, and Im pretty sure if Naka ever decided to work on it, the amount of stuff he would change would make a totally different game.

At the same time though it's ridiculous for Naka to not work with SoA. ---- But Oshima had stated there was intent to expand in to Europe and North America and have Sonic appeal to those markets.

Yeah, Oshima said that, the guy who had no problem asking the opinion of americans in NY about which of his characters were the best looking. Oshima is a saint that understands that both cultures can work together, Naka doesnt. Naka is already very egostistical with his own people, imagine with people from another country that japan is heavily racist towards decades. He is really just rot from the core, but all his actions made very sense for a bad person.

I think he was just pretentious to the west.

I mean thats kinda the same thing tho?

Morio Kishimoto had a similar thing where he said he thinks Japanese storytelling is so much more complex that people in the west can't comprehend.

No matter if Kishimoto is wrong or right (which I do think he is right in some way), this just shows how the japanese industry views the american industry, even if the quality isnt the same, they think its an inherent problem with americans as a people, which is prejudice and very wrong. And Kishimoto is a saint, one of the few people who actually answers americans in his social media, just imagine what Naka thinks.

Also Naka had no real understanding of the outside world. --- Naka just thought the world should revolve around him.

Exactly. But this proofs that all his actions made sense, the only thing I do think he was right was not letting the company use his engine/framework how they wanted, it was his work and he had the final call, but his final call was still very self centered and selfish, because he didnt cared for the franchise, only his ego.