Poor Sega. Not only did they push the advances of early broadband and streaming services with the Sega Channel (did anyone else have this? It was awesome!), but lost out in the home console wars despite putting out some pretty impressive hardware and getting to market first in the next gen with the Dreamcast. Other than maybe Atari, I can't think of any other companies that competed in BOTH the home and vid/pin space at that time or any. I'm not a businessman but I can't imagine enabling the home market to thrive was too good for the coin-op biz.
Not directly related, but it's a piece of fascinating history since the spirit of Sega pinball survived in the form of Stern, which thrives today.