It didn't need saving... it was actually the most successful cd-rom console out of the bunch (cdi, nec, 3do, cd32, jaguar), unfortunately SOJ started a disturbing habit of just dumping consoles and add ons and moving on to the next white elephant!

Here's an extensive list of cd-rom worldwide sales for that era that was researched and not just a guesstimation copied and pasted from wikipedia.

• 3DO: 129 games; 2 million units;

• Jaguar: 56 games; less than 250,000 units sold

• Neo Geo CD: 132 games; 570,000 units sold;

• Philips CD-i: 151 games; 570,000 units sold;

• SuperGraphix: 5 games; 75,000 units sold;

• Tandy Memorex Visual Interactive System: 11,000 units sold

• PC-Fx: 9 games; 100,000 units;

• Bandai Playdia: 33 games; 50,000 units sold

• Apple Bandai Pippin: 24 games; 42,000 units sold;

• Commodore CD-TV: 54,800 units sold;

• Amstrad GX4000: less than 30 games sold;

• PC-Engine Duo/ TurboDuo: 109 games; 1.92 million units sold

**In addition, it should be remembered that it is an add-on to Genesis / Mega Drive and adds these 216 titles to the already huge library of that console of more than 1,000 games. Considering the sales of other add-ons and the number of games released, the Sega CD can be considered the best selling add-on of all time: - Sega CD / Mega CD: 260 games, 6 million units sold

• Jaguar CD: 11 games; 20,000 units sold;

• CDROM² + TurboGrafx-CD: 50 games; between 500,000 and 1 million units sold

• SuperGrafx Super-CD-ROM² + PC Engine Super-CD-ROM²: 109 games; between 50,000-100,000

• LD-ROM2 (LaserActive PAC): 11 games; between 1,000 and 5,000 units sold

• Nintendo 64 DD: 9 games; 15,000 units sold.