It's time to aknowledge the Neptune would have fared better than the Saturn
>>12580510>sell it for $129>put a real sonic game on it(not gayotix)>?>profitHonestly turning a profit in the mid to late 90s would have saved sega.
>>12580510The 32x is a joke. Sega would be the laughing stock if they tried to sell the 32x as their next gen console. Also, the only reason the 32x even exists as designed is because its an addon, a standalone 32x is fundamentally invalid as a concept, nobody would design a standalone console that way.
>$60 dollar cartridges >$70 if you want the game to save>Games limited to 4MB>Gen 4.5 graphics>Mediocre sales in the US>No sales in JapanI know your Autism demands you obsess over this thing but it would have flopped hard.
Literally all they had to do was release Chaotix on the Saturn and not have the 32X exist at all. It wouldn't have won the generation but it wouldn't have been an embarrassing dumpster fire that destroyed their hardware division. Which was good by the way, I'm glad I was able to be introduced to Sonic through the GC and GBA.
>>12580510yeah cuz having soa back your hardware is a guarantee for success lmao
>>12580549>Literally all they had to do was release Chaotix on the SaturnThat game isn't good and nobody wanted to play it.
>>12580561Turn all those into Neptunes and you save Sega
>>12580536>Gen 4.5 graphicsBut those are my favorite
>>12580892neither top right or bottom left would have run on the 32x without large concessions
>>12580920We are talking about the Sega Neptune though
>>12580536>>12580561>>12580575Turn 100-250mb zip media into cartridge format
>>12580510It would have been a marketing nightmare
>>12580510Maybe in the west, but it would have been a wet thud in Japan, and splitting development duties between two platforms would have been next to impossible. If they had pushed the Saturn back, or not released it early, the 32x might have had some level of success as an interim machine for the US, especially seeing its main competetion being the late era super nintendo.
>>12580936zip drive disks were unreliable pieces of shit. I had one, so I should know. the discs themselves were already protected by a solid shell; they simply weren't reliable. every time someone says they should have used that format, I cannot help but laugh. Seriously, I lost data on more than one occasion. the truth is that nintendo fell behind schedule, with the dd64, by trying to improve the reliability of a defective format. anyone that says zip drives were a viable alternative to cartridges or cds never owned one, period.
