In Japan the game cases had a sexy gold on them, a sleek font, a sleek "S" logo with that sexy red gradient, and the square jewel cases also emphasised the CD technology—the game on the left is one I'd definitely buy. So why didn't we get THAT in the west? The game boxes we got looked like shitty VHS films and had a stupid squiggly font; they just failed to make the Saturn look premium. No wonder the Saturn bombed so hard in the west.
>>12071401I actually much more preferred the larger US Saturn cases and still do. Gave the console a more unique style/charm for me.
>>12071401For the same reason why early PS1 games are also in huge boxes: They thought Americans would be more likely to buy a product literally just because the packaging was bigger
>Game Cover:| >Game Cover, Japan:O
>>12071407>They thought Americans would be more likely to buy a product literally just because the packaging was biggerKek. That must be why there were no PS1 longboxes in PAL
>>12071401European Saturn covers were fine. American one shit the bed with uneven artwork and white stripes calling back to SMS days, as if they were good. That said, they were bad, but they would've gotten away with them if the console was better than PlayStation and had a better library, which it didn't.
>>12071432>European Saturn covers were fineThe OP image HAS a European Saturn cover on the right.
I love long boxNot a fan of jewel case PS1 Saturn jap
>>12071407I mean, it worked for the NES/SNES/N64
I never owned a saturn, were the jewel cases similar to the PSX ones where they were signfiicantly chunkier than a normal CD case? The PSX cases kinda fucking sucked because they'd break at the slightest provocation, nothing is worse than the EU dreamcast boxes though, the fucking spindles break every time.
>>12071584soul
>>12071401Someone explain spine cards to me. What the fuck even if this shit?PS1 and Saturn both had them in Japan but not in any other region.
>>12071401This would have saved the Saturn!
>>12071401Add it to the list of SoA fuck ups
>>12072003They're called Obi. They're to distinguish real from fakes. You even get them on books