GaijinPunch, he is indeed responsible for all sorts of plans that stopped good games appearing in the US, which probably had an effect on their appearance in Europe, too. If it wasn't being translated into English for the US, why bother for the UK? AND French, German, Spanish, Italian... plus PAL conversion. He is in charge of a team. He rashly killed off the Saturn, proclaiming it dead before the Dreamcast was ready for shipping even. If in business your team fails, then you have to accept the consequences, including the blame. You don't say - ah well, the guy I put in charge of advertising did a poor job, and the team working on the next gen console didn't have it ready when promised. If you knew those problems were there, then you deal with them before it is too late. Yes, it is hard with financial difficulty, but you can't always look for excuses. Anyway, what about Lynx? He didn't do a better job with that really, did he? And how about Sony? Why did they fire him? AFAIK he started in Sega at the same position he had at Sony. You don't leave a successful competitor to a now struggling veteran to join the opposition without a reason.
Bernie stolar and Jean francois Cecilion must indeed be half-brothers borne of the same satanic mother. No other possible explanation.