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===End of support and third-party licensing=== The Mega Drive/Genesis was supported until 1997 worldwide, when Sega announced it was dropping support for it.<ref name="ConsoleInfo 2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.consoledatabase.com/consoleinfo/segamegadrive/index.html|title=Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Console Information|accessdate=18 October 2007|author=Console Database Staff|work=http://www.consoledatabase.com}}</ref> It was discontinued along with its predecessor, the Master System, to allow Sega to concentrate on its newer console, the [[Sega Saturn|Saturn]]. The Mega Drive's add-ons, the [[Mega CD]] and [[Sega 32X|32X]], were also both discontinued at this point, having been the same general failures they were in the other regions.<ref name="failure">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamepro.com/gamepro/domestic/games/features/111822.shtml|title=The 10 Worst-Selling Consoles of All Time|last=Blake|first=Snow|date=30 July 2007|publisher=[[wikipedia:GamePro|GamePro]]|accessdate=20 May 2008}}</ref> In 1997, Sega licensed the Mega Drive to [[Majesco]] so that it could re-release the console in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/page.cgi?pkpcode=genesis3|title=Sega (Majesco) Genesis 3|publisher=pelikonepeijoonit|accessdate=6 March 2006}}</ref> Majesco began re-selling millions of formerly unsold cartridges at a budget price together with the second model of the Genesis, until it later released a third version of it.
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