Sega's own fault, really.
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Sega's own fault, really.
Wasn't the saturrn released about a year ahead of the PS1?
Then getting both collections sounds perfect, as I don't own a Saturn-thingie and live in Sweden.
Just hoping they're fun. :) Do you, Ryűkishi, like them?
In Japan, the Saturn was released on November 22nd, 1994, and the PlayStation was released on December 2nd, 1994. In America, the PlayStation was released on September 9th, 1995, and the Saturn was SUPPOSED to be released on Sepetember 2nd. However, Sega of America was afraid of the competition of releasing their machine in the same week as Sony's. So, instead of building up the hype for their product, they decided a surprise launch would be a good idea, so they released it on May 11th instead. Four months ahead of time. Without advertising it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joel
Then there was the fact that the Saturn was originally designed to make really great 2D games, but the guys making it realized at the last second that people were mostly going to want really great 3D games, so they basically just slapped a 3D processor in there right beside the 2D processor. The result was that the two separate processors couldn't work in tandem or access data at the same time, making the Saturn so hard to develop games for that a lot of developers just didn't want to bother.
Then there was the fact that Sega had just recently screwed its customers over with the 32X, which was prettymuch entirely a waste of time due to its lack of games and how close it was to the Saturn release; Sega went right on to focus on their new machine while leaving 32X owners with arguably one worthwhile game. The whole thing damaged Sega's credibility in a way it never really recovered from.
And again, Sega of America seriously dropped the ball when it came to advertising, not to mention the extent to which they kept a lot of the Saturn's better titles from ever getting out of Japan. They were even worse than Sony when it came to the "if it's not 3D, it's not coming to America" principle.
Poor bastards.
The saturn was rubbish in my epinion