Imagine bitching about the saturn when this piece of shit exists, SoA killed Sega by making this absolutely unnecessary turd that shouldn't exist.
imagine bitching about anything that hard instead of making threads about stuff you like.
If Sega could go back in time to either improve (or remove) the 32X or Saturn, improving the Saturn would obviously be the best decision.
>>12784429Yeah but the 32x only cost $100 dollars and actually has a Sonic game.The Sega Saturn cost $399 and does not have a Sonic game.
Another extremely low effort bait thread hy the shidder. He gets weaker and weaker by the day and his bait is less and less effective. It's finally entertaining!
>>12784429>SoA killed Sega by making this absolutely unnecessary turd that shouldn't existPretty sure the Japanese forced Sega America to sell this. Sega Japan has a shady history of forcing their products on Sega of America to sell. You need to understand Sega Japan was not popular in Japan. Nintendo was owning them in the console market. So Sega Japan often "sells" products to other branches of the Sega company. These sales are recorded and make Japan look better on paper to investors. Then Sega Japan orders that branch to sell the product even if the branch protests and says the locals wouldn't buy it. Sega Japan just doesn't care. It's a very shady thing that often isn't talked about
>SoA killed Sega Trvke
>>12784429Sega CD did more damage, no one actually bought the 32X.
>>12784452Making it more like the playstation doesn't fix the problem. It was still a redundant system. Sony did everything Sega could do and more.
>>12784452I'm sure if Sega could go back in time they would delete the Saturn and start over with something new. A new console that was focused on 3D from the start and was easy to develop games for, and game studios wouldn't complain about Saturns complicated hardware. The failure of the Sega Saturn hurt Sega tremendously. They lost around 1 billion dollars. And to our things in perspective, Sega was only worth 4 billion dollars in the 1990s. They were a small company compared to Sony - which were worth 50 Billion dollars.
>>12785701>I'm sure if Sega could go back in time they would delete the Saturn and start over with something newMaybe, but that's assuming they'd achieve anything better. There were only so many ex-SGI staffers to be had to help design your chipset and even if you gave the SEGA engineers a crystal ball they probably would still have fucked up due to not understanding the scope of the problem. At the time the best you could do easily was some western software rendering demosceners or something and turning their x86 algos into hardware is just a different kind of stupid to SEGA's sprite distortion hack job. I wouldn't be confident they'd fix enough of their problems to win.
fully supporting the 32x as a cheap holdover until the dreamcast would have been the right move. the shiturn forever ruined consumer confidence in sega consoles.
>>12784715By outperforming the Japanese so much they were sabotaged
>>12785874Exactly. If the Sega 32x and Saturn couldn't be changed or deleted, then delaying the Saturn to December 1996 would have been the correct move. 1. It gives Sega 32x a solid 2 to 3 years without competing with the Sega Saturn. Which is exactly what game studios wanted. They were afraid Sega would abandon the 32x after a year. 2. It gives Sega Saturn developers enough time to properly develop launch titles and polish them nicely. We wouldnt get the horribly buggy and low frame games that we got originally (like Daytona USA for Saturn)3. It gives Sega enough time to observe the market and see what other games are popular. They would have seen the rise of RPGs and could plan accordingly. 4. Sega can compete with Nintendo 64 and launch at the same time. It could be a huge event for gamers. Like how the Barbie movie competed with Oppenheimer on the same day. Both movies ended up hyping eachother up and made over a billion dollars each. It's a tragedy Sega Japan doesn't understand basic business.
>>12784429>SoA and SoJ combined killed Sega with their infighting.FIFY
*Rapes the Saturn Daytona ports*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcxd7lpQBvg
>>12786035That's not bad for 1994 - especially for a non-arcade cabinet game.
>>12785701>A new console that was focused on 3D from the start and was easy to develop games forThe playstation would still destroy it. The only way to carve out a space would have been to do something that sony didn't, not just copy them.
>>12786514>The only way to carve out a spaceThat's the thing, Sega had already established themselves as a video game brand at that point.Sony had no legacy, they just happened to have the best deal. In fact Sony was expecting the PlayStation to fail at first, but then both Sega and Nintendo fucked up hard.
>>12786728Sony won because of the system but also their marketing plan. They wanted to market video games like movies. And they had a film division and the expertise to do that. Even if the systems had parity, Sony's marketing would have won. A Sega version of final fantasy 7 would have rappers and skateboarders in the advertising. It would have not captured the public the same way.
>>12786514Sega still had established game franchises that Sony did not.
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>>12784456chaotix sucks ass tho
>>12787546NO?
>>12786035>TIME BONER
Imagine bitching about the saturn when murder exists
>>12786751You may not be aware but most of Sega America's marketing team quit and joined Sony America. They were tired of Sega Japan being too controlling and not letting them do their jobs. That's why Sony's marketing for PlayStation resembles the marketing for the Sega Genesis.
>>12790058>That's why Sony's marketing for PlayStation resembles the marketing for the Sega Genesis.It at least explains why Crash Bandicoot was obsessed with Nintendo Headquarters in VA.
