The Sega Saturn is back in vogue and starting to be seen by more as a great console. Read our in-depth feature about the Sega Saturn today.
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Back when the Xbox 360 launched, Microsoft pushed the big budget game as a differentiator. Following all the recent layoffs, it’s clear this strategy has run its course.
The Microsoft shill take on the Microsoft causing the death of big budget gaming...
The whole driving force for growth in gaming both technologically, creatively and financially was all nonsense, and it was definitely not because Microsoft ran the industry into the ground with obviously bad decisions and creating an unprofitable business model that massively disrupted consumer spending habits. /s
LOL, this article is a big pile of dog crap...
Spencer has been constantly telling ppl that NO they would not go the route of having games like TLOU, Uncharted, etc because Playstation exists and prefers to focus on a diverse portfolio.
How many years have we seen Xbox as no game and we don't want small games like ORI, Pentiment, Grounded, etc.?
That's the real tragedy and why lots of gamers are mad at MS right now
because they have been championing smaller titles and yet fired the ppl delivering exactly what they were proning about.
So no the only nonsense is that MS seems now to be going BACK to AAA popular titles..sorry, I meant refocusing effort on core established IP where broken GAAS might be rewarded versus praised and rewarded work.
Unfortunately most of the games worth a damn are probably extremely expensive so it's probably not worth it. Some of the games have been re released on other consoles, even at the time.
Sega Saturn had a killer line up!!!!
I have to say that It's my favorite nostalgic console and one of the few older consoles that I still keep due to how hard it is to find proper emulation.
Lots of games that were never ported are still a blast to play:
Astal, Shinobi Legion, Dragon Force, and Fighters Megamix just to name a few
Here's the collection I Kept https://www.pricecharting.c...
Loved my Saturn. I actually had one over the Playstation originally because it was the natural progression from the Mega Drive. Think I switched to PS in 1998
It's such a fascinating system there so much history to it and infighting around the system it's amazing.
Most people are unaware that it was a successful system in Japan and as such they received a ton of games that never made it to the west. The president of Sega of America at the time post tom kalinski basically refused to publish or localise the majority of games for the Saturn in the US.
I actually believe it was the Saturn however that caused the death of Sega as a hardware manufacturer the Dreamcast gets the blame but the sad reality is most of the damage to the Sega brand was done during the 32x and Saturn days.
And in terns of it's capabilities there's a belief that the system wasn't really equipped to handle 3d howecer that's not quite accurately it could but it was far more difficult to program for think the cell architecture of the PS3 as an equivalent. Saturn using two co processors was similar to the Jag and it became far easier for most devs to simply use one processor which is why many games looked rather 16 bit in the 32 bit era of the psx and development was often spearheaded on the PS1 given it's much simpler architecture of a single CPU meaning ports often looked and ran worse on the Saturn.
Also the world was shifting people wanted 3d games with depth and Sega was more than happy just releasing arcade ports which didn't do much to satisfy fans back in the day.
I think it was a neat system just launched at the wrong time with the wrong leadership as someone who went from genisis to PS1 I can remember being wowed by the now extremely dated PS1 graphics and I think most of the Saturn's library actually aged better