Nice catch. You've definitely earned your internet research merit badge.

This is probably just a complete coincidence, but a few months ago Apple removed the shopping cart system from iTunes, switching it to a "wish list" system with 1-click purchasing. Did they see this coming?

People seem to forget why Stolar was fired in the first place. He was instrumental in killing the Saturn (though he certainly doesn't shoulder all of the blame for that). People complain that Sega has always had terrible management, well Stolar was at the top of that list at that time.

Of course this is my opinion, but I think that one of the reasons the Saturn couldn't compete was lack of diversity in software (ironically, the very thing he touts in the interview). Stolar was obsessed with sports titles. He was convinced that Americans would play nothing else (probably came up with that idea from the popularity of Genesis success with sports titles), and he became notorious for blocking developers of anything else. The Saturn's library stagnated due to Sega's worsening relationship with developers, while Sony went out of their way to put anything and everything on the PS1.

Stolar was not the genius that could have saved the DC, he is the cancer that killed it before it had a chance. It's unfortunate that Sega didn't fire him during the Saturn days - it might have saved their future.

SIDE NOTE: I think it's funny that, even after all these years, all that Stolar can talk about is sports. Every anecdote he has in that interview is sports related. Some things never change.