The Saturn marked the end of Sega... They didn't stand a chance against the N64 and PS1.... I mean, everybody's heard of Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy 7 but WTF was on the Saturn?
I never seen this ad before. I remember seeing very few ads for Sega Saturn games back in the day. They made little to no effort to promote this system.
I agree, they pretty much gave up on saturn in america. But I tell you this, I sure as hell would have bought a saturn if they had the segata sanshiro commercials in the states.
@ConsoleWarSucks Well, I'd say there is a very good reason they didn't attack Nintendo. The Saturn and Playstation came out 1 year before the N64 did, so when the Saturn just came out and this ad was made, there was yet to be an N64.
@Forzaabruzzo I'd like to see the playstation try to make a game like Nights into dream, or Marvel vs. Superhereos, or sega rally, i can go on and on.
Technically the Saturn was a more powerful system, but unfortunately 3rd party developers had no idea as to how to get the most out of it! The technology was too advanced and complicated for developers, therefore it made it too difficult and costly for these developers to make quality games for it.
@Forzaabruzzo You know what`s funny?According to a Capcom developer The PlayStation 2 was even more difficult to program for then the Saturn.And developers were able to push the PS2 really hard.If developers would have took time to learn the Saturn we would have seen games on the Saturn that look way better then PS1 games and the Saturn version of Shenmue which was canceled proves this.
@barlog20: But the Saturn was not popular in the USA , that is why you are complaining about lack of games. In Japan , the Saturn was a success and there were many games released for the 2d crazy Japanese market that were not exported to US
@Jawarib1 I know,i have the Saturn and i got games that came out in America and imports.I bought the Saturn twice:first time back in 97 then later i sold it to my friend brother with all my Saturn games then years later i missed it and regretted it so i bought another Saturn on Ebay for like 70 dollars and it came with 8 games and i bought more games also on Ebay and Amazon for the Saturn.To me Saturn best games was the 2d ones like Xmen,Xmen VS SF, Radiant Silvergun,D & D collection etc..
@Jawarib1 OK:Xmen vs Street Fighter,Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter,Thunder Force 5,Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3,X-men,Street Fighter Alpha 1,2,3,Mega man 5,Shinobi Legions,Night Warriors,Vampire Savior,Dungeons and Dragons Collections,Die Hard Arcade,Fighting Vipers,Virtua Fighter 2,Sega Rally,Daytona Championship Circuit Edition,Radiant Silver gun,Dodonpachi ,Hyper Duel,Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2,Panzer Dragoon Orta,Hyper Duel,Virtua Cop 1 and 2,Last Bronx,House of the dead,Duke Nukem,Cyberbots.
@tom11zz884 Well the PS had Gran Turismo, which was vastly superior to the likes of Sega Rally. Ultimately, as has been said many times before, the Saturn was to be a 2D console, not 3D; that feature was tacked on right at the end of development.
Though vastly superior technically, games were hard to program for the Saturn and so quality / quantity failed to match the PS.
All that said, I was a Saturn owner back then and I wipe my arse on the PS! Sega all the way! ;p
@aznbigboyjo3 400$ not 500$ but yea i agree but with all the xtra processors and shit it was no 'cheap' peace of equipment even today 9 processors is alot o-o
Sega also alienated Electronic Arts and the hardware was too expensive, lacked backward compatibility, and sold at a loss. However, any one of those mistakes, alone would not have slowed the Saturn down. It would have overtaken the PS1. It was all of these mistakes taken together that ruined the Saturn and also guaranteed no real developer support for the Dreamcast.
@SpencerGTR... It was more complicated than that. Sega of America also got the Saturn banned from Wal-Mart and Kay-Bee toys, would not allow 80 percent of the Japanese titles to come out, and used quadrilateral geometry for which there was no developer's kit at the time. Basically, the CEO in Japan was senile and the CEO in the United States was an idiot.
we have 3 processors ...the playstation only has one. You can tell how desperate they were to sell this thing if they started comparing it to the PS1, and actually pronounceing the competitons name in their own ad. Exactly like atari did when nintendo came with the NES.
well, the story of 2 processors is true. Used simultaneously in Virtua Fighter 2: a game with the highest resolution of the period, for ANY 32 bit sistem
The problem with the Saturn was that it was a horrible system to develop software for. Most companies couldn't understand or figure out how to fully utilize the Sega Saturn's full potential. It had two processors, one to process 3D and one to process 2D, and both processors could be used simultaneously, which if developers could've fully utilized this, we would have seen games far superior to anything else on the market. Unfortunately, Sega messed up with this system, it never amounted to much
The saturn was like the xbox of the 90s it was a beast. the saturn actually sold well in japan and lasted a few more years there. Japan had all the sweet games too, ones that never made it to the U.S. shores. Nevertheless software was not the issue for the saturn it was management. Sega was run by ignorant people that couldn't make a decision and stick to and support that decision.
I had one of these and the PS1 blew it away. It had more processors, yes, but it isn't only processors that determine a systems graphical potential. And to the guy that said it's graphics approached those of the PS2, you're off your freakin' rocker! The system needed the ram expansion cart to even play some games of PS1 quality.
Actually, the Sega Saturn had graphics nearly on PS2 level, but N64 and PS1 were much more popular, and easier to program for, so Saturn was left behind.
I don't know if you'd consider it superior - it depends what you want. The lack of a CD-Rom technology meant that developers couldn't fit a ton of stuff into most games and a necessity for low-res textures. As far as I've seen, the Nintendo 64 was really bad at 2D, as well - the best-looking 2D games I can think of on the Nintendo 64 are Mischief Makers and Ogre Battle 64 which look like something the Saturn could have churned out with ease.
Umm, dunno about that, that would mean that the Saturn was more powerful than the Dreamcast lol. But the Saturn definitely had a slew of horsepower that was never utilised. *points to Shenmue*
hi all sega fans i currently have a petition going to bring sega back into hardware if u want to sign just send me a message with your username and a reason why u want sega back.
p.s if u don't want to sign dont call me a name just disreguard the comment
It may have had three processors, but they created it originally to be a powerhouse 2D game system, made for things like puzzlers and 2D fighters and side scrollers. Thus, they made it difficult to develop 3D games for it. A glorious device from SEGA, but a nightmare to develop for.
sega consols were fuckn good. the saturn was way ahead of ps1, sony were still learning how to play videos at that point. the xbox and ps2 were to blame for the dreamcasts sell out. still today the dreamcast is a good machine for its time. respect for sega and all the goodtimes in the 1990s with sonic the hedgehog.
Sony's Processor was bigger and better than Saturn's! I still can't believe that it cost $400 and was inferior to PS one when the PS3 is $400 and WAY better than all other hardware.
@rulersmg1 i actually emailed sega and asked if they had plans to make anymore consoles, i also mentioned that i felt really bad because the saturn and dreamcast would have been so AMAZING if it hadn't had failed cuz of the fucking people! and i persueded them to make a second console and suggested a name like dreamcast 2. the guys reply was no plans that im aware of. but hopefully they'll take my advice :)
if the cancelled sonic xtreme game came out it would of saved the console. but since it was cancelled many critics found the system in no competition with the others.both the sega 32x and saturn should have never came to be and sega would be in the console buissness today still.
I personally love all things Sega and the Saturn is no exception. It's not a perfect console but it's 3D prowess is quite impressive as proven by Panzer Dragoon Saga and Burning Rangers. I also think the Saturn had the best controller of the generation not to mention sturdiest build quality.
When you've got Sega Saturn, nothing else matters... Because you spent all of your money on it creating a massive rift between you and your friends that are all enjoying the ever-so-more popular PlayStation... lol. Dont worry, I like Saturn.
it really is such a shame, had sega made the saturn more popular, and sold it at Saturn day instead of before the launch day, then the dreamcast would have definatly become the top seller of generation six.
the console is a bad mark in the history of a wonderful company.
"Sega Saturn has 3 32-bit processors" Too bad nobody in the world knew how to utilize more than one of them. There is not one game made for both PS1 and Saturn that looks better on Saturn, Take Tomb Raider for example.
2D games looked better on the Saturn. Saturn could do MUCH better sprite rendering. Street Fighter Alpha 2, Primal Rage, Grandia, and Silhouette Mirage all looked better on the Saturn for example.
That is coreect. As a matter of fact, the Saturn was originally suposed to be a machine that would mostly produce 2D games. When Sega got wind of what Sony and Nintendo was doing, they quickly gave it a boost in the 3D department. Virtual Fighter 2 and Duke Nukem 3D are good examples of what the Saturn could do with the right programers. But like I stated above, good luck finding somebody who was able to do it on a consistent basis.
One of those 32-bit processors was dedicated to loading games, in order to take the overhead for that function off the two CPUs and to shorten load times. For exclusive games AM2 would use both CPUs. One CPU would handle one fighter while the other CPU would handle the other fighter. For multi-platform games, Lobotomy Software and Tomonobu Itagaki made superior Saturn versions of their games. In fact Tomunobu Itagaki much preferred the Saturn as a system for which to make games than PSX.
that 3 proccesors shit really made a difference in marvel super heroes vs. streetfighter tho n the saturn version u could actually swap characters just like the arcade but u couldn't do that in the ps
The reason the Saturn version was able to switch characters was due to the mandatory ram cartridge (that had to be inserted into the memory card slot, that came with the game) not the 3 32-bit processors, had the PS1had the ram cartridge, it would have been just as good, if not better.
Yeah it had two 3D and one 2D processor that the stupid third party game producers didn't understand how to use. So instead they made a massive amount of easy to produce crap for the PSX, and that is just one of the many reasons why this increadible system failed so miserably.
Sega Saturn was shit. I love how the saturn was released early with only 10 games! I mean WTF. And sega was releasing the 32x months later. And lets not forget about the many power adaptors needed to power the genesis,32x and the fuckin sega cd. God and they come up with the most rediculous lies ever. "Blast processing" wow something that doesnt even exist.
the sega saturn was great but It had three proccesors which made it harder for 3rd party development to make games for it cause the system proccesors are too complex the graphics are still better than psx
Better then PS1? Are you smokin too much pot? The only edge the saturn had against the ps1 was a faster frame rate on 2-d games. Thats it. In fact the saturn was originally a 32x turned into a system to be the fastest 2D console but SEGA realized 2D was outdated compared to Ps1 and N64 3D. So SEGA rushed it in and thats why most of its games are 2D-3D'ish.
Correction: Sega had PLENTY of 2D games for the Saturn. In Japan, though. Bernie Stolar, who was once with Sony but moved to Sega, said "no" to 2D games on the Saturn in America like he did with the PlayStation while he was there.
It was a good system, it's problem was this: It's release was too close from Sega's previous system. And it didn't have a strong marketing plan. Nobody was ready for it.
Microsoft.what a souless machine..JAPs do it best even though gc was gay. Saturn(panzer saga) genesis(phantasy stars.. dreamcast(shenmue) n64(zeldas) all looking to create something special.. wow has sucked the souls of all and in turn console developers dont give a shit about puting in effort, when money now is about who can create a multiplayer game that wastes the most time.nintendo make toys now. Go ps3, but I think bill and blizzard will rape you, and then the souls of all gamers
@haloprime360(the faker)
I love old games man.
haloprime360 3 weeks ago
@haloprime360 (the faker)
I love to make fun of old games, man.
haIoprime360 3 weeks ago
When that guy was playing his sega saturn he was dooming everyone.
haloprime360 3 weeks ago
Fuck old games.
haIoprime360 3 weeks ago
hahaha! Sony buy SEGA company... ALL!
blackraptor3012 1 month ago
fucking sega and the crappy timing if only thay braught out the saturn after ps one the thay woulden have stod a chance long live the saturn
imfealinghothothot 3 months ago
ahhhhh those were the days. when companies could make direct references to eachother in advertisements without getting sued out the ass for damages.
HackerHandBook 4 months ago
wow lol. Sega talked shit about all of their competition xD
XxRusty96xX 4 months ago
looks more like a panzer dragoon commercial :P jk
wylecoyote65 5 months ago
it is a launch commercial ?
TheHaris34 6 months ago
Ahh the cockroach at the end is priceless.
Dimitri0809 7 months ago
The Sega Saturn was cool. I didn't get to get it because my cousin had this system.
irismey 8 months ago
i think saturn was an underrated console
HudsonAO8TQ1 9 months ago
lol the cockaroach xD!!
ken0176 10 months ago
funny how they always hav a go at Nintendo and In this advert Sony and yet sony and nintendo thrashed them with the ps1 and n64
errosion1994 11 months ago
lol i like how they burn sony
D202116 11 months ago 4
Saturn kicks ass, but SEGA's American marketing department deserved to be hanged.
Lupucillo 11 months ago
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joeysixtysix 1 year ago
I bought it as soon as it was available. I still think it kicked ass! Well worth the money.
joeysixtysix 1 year ago
Wow! Last time Nintendo, now finally PS!
allstarsnorks 1 year ago
0:00 to 8:00 looks like Shadow's gotten out of GUN's base again
XxGuardianKnightxX 1 year ago
Good system well underrated
ImPoliticalOK 1 year ago
It was a good machine, but no-one bought the fucker. Partly because they had no really good launch games.
Applemask 1 year ago
0:29 SEGA!!!
I almost shit myself. :D
NintendoStarWing 1 year ago 9
@NintendoStarWing i thought it said nigga
MrSmokinhotdude 5 months ago
wow i thought sega saturn was like ancient...graphix look better than i expected
sonic911 1 year ago
Three 32 bit procesors? then what was the point of having the 32x? damn sega is stupid
thegokilives 1 year ago 2
@aranahmad101 The original playstation was a 32 bit console.
randomjrr1422 1 year ago
@aranahmad101 um as it was 1 year ago i dont know what the hell i was talking about so can u please explain :L
liamis01177 1 year ago
dood im so fuckin high right now
TheSurrahChannel 1 year ago
hi could someone please help me out does pal mean the games will play in uk version of the console
TONKSRED300 1 year ago
@TONKSRED300 yea it does
Muntathar 1 year ago
So, if you play Sega Saturn, the world will explode. :D
lisalover1 1 year ago
Sega had already lost by this point. Maybe they lost before the match started, but you can tell that they're panicked here.
sunshinebutmorerain 1 year ago
hmm, they are using the playstation 3 logic of more processors = better
nullwii 1 year ago
@nullwii
Actually, even with all the SPE and PPE lark of the PS3's Cell, it's still essentially just a single CPU.
strykah92 1 year ago
Sega Saturn = 3 processors that was impossible to develop for, which is why the Saturn Failed.
Sony Playstation= 1 processor that was a dream to program for, which is why the Playstation kicked the Saturn's ass..lol
tom11zz884 1 year ago
SEGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jarkkoreviews1 1 year ago
0:30 SEGA!
TheDarkDaxter5 1 year ago
RIP dude playing the saturn
sonicman2500 1 year ago
@sonicman2500 MAYBE TAILS DOLL CURSE XD
TheDarkDaxter5 1 year ago
The Saturn marked the end of Sega... They didn't stand a chance against the N64 and PS1.... I mean, everybody's heard of Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy 7 but WTF was on the Saturn?
WickedLiquid 1 year ago
I never seen this ad before. I remember seeing very few ads for Sega Saturn games back in the day. They made little to no effort to promote this system.
Sly88Frye 1 year ago
@Sly88Frye
I agree, they pretty much gave up on saturn in america. But I tell you this, I sure as hell would have bought a saturn if they had the segata sanshiro commercials in the states.
MeNotThatKindofOrc 1 year ago
nothing else matters.
caioenzo 1 year ago
and the fact that sony playstation had one. didnt help sega much in sales
JoostRevo 1 year ago
Playstion all the wayy
Thejardos 1 year ago
what?dissing on sony and not nintendo?give up much?
ConsoleWarSucks 1 year ago
@ConsoleWarSucks Well, I'd say there is a very good reason they didn't attack Nintendo. The Saturn and Playstation came out 1 year before the N64 did, so when the Saturn just came out and this ad was made, there was yet to be an N64.
Sly88Frye 1 year ago
Yeah Three Processors, and the SEGA Saturn games didn't even use all three,
Riddler95 1 year ago
I think one of the biggest downfalls of the SEGA Saturn was that there really was no true Sonic Game.
Sonic R was a racing game, Sonic Jam was a compilation of the SEGA Genesis Sonic Games, and Sonic 3D blast was the Genesis game on the Saturn
Riddler95 1 year ago
I got it at launch had to import games to australia just to play them,cause they never really came down under...same as dreamcast?
What was that about anyway????Back in the day i blamed sony lol...
chiefmegadeth 1 year ago
Wow 3!!!! I thought it only had 2 processors.
freeofgreed 1 year ago
Saturn had 3 processors..but it was too darn diffult to program for..lol
that's why Saturn died
tom11zz884 1 year ago
@tom11zz884
Pretty much. Doesn't make much sense to brag about your console's technology when the competitor's games still manage to look BETTER.
Forzaabruzzo 1 year ago
@Forzaabruzzo I'd like to see the playstation try to make a game like Nights into dream, or Marvel vs. Superhereos, or sega rally, i can go on and on.
Saturn was a more powerful system
tom11zz884 1 year ago
@tom11zz884
Technically the Saturn was a more powerful system, but unfortunately 3rd party developers had no idea as to how to get the most out of it! The technology was too advanced and complicated for developers, therefore it made it too difficult and costly for these developers to make quality games for it.
Forzaabruzzo 1 year ago
@Forzaabruzzo You know what`s funny?According to a Capcom developer The PlayStation 2 was even more difficult to program for then the Saturn.And developers were able to push the PS2 really hard.If developers would have took time to learn the Saturn we would have seen games on the Saturn that look way better then PS1 games and the Saturn version of Shenmue which was canceled proves this.
barlog20 1 year ago
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Jawarib1 1 year ago
@barlog20: But the Saturn was not popular in the USA , that is why you are complaining about lack of games. In Japan , the Saturn was a success and there were many games released for the 2d crazy Japanese market that were not exported to US
Jawarib1 1 year ago
@Jawarib1 I know,i have the Saturn and i got games that came out in America and imports.I bought the Saturn twice:first time back in 97 then later i sold it to my friend brother with all my Saturn games then years later i missed it and regretted it so i bought another Saturn on Ebay for like 70 dollars and it came with 8 games and i bought more games also on Ebay and Amazon for the Saturn.To me Saturn best games was the 2d ones like Xmen,Xmen VS SF, Radiant Silvergun,D & D collection etc..
barlog20 1 year ago
@barlog20: Can you please give me names of Good Saturn games? I might download the emulator if you convince me.
Jawarib1 1 year ago
@Jawarib1 OK:Xmen vs Street Fighter,Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter,Thunder Force 5,Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3,X-men,Street Fighter Alpha 1,2,3,Mega man 5,Shinobi Legions,Night Warriors,Vampire Savior,Dungeons and Dragons Collections,Die Hard Arcade,Fighting Vipers,Virtua Fighter 2,Sega Rally,Daytona Championship Circuit Edition,Radiant Silver gun,Dodonpachi ,Hyper Duel,Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2,Panzer Dragoon Orta,Hyper Duel,Virtua Cop 1 and 2,Last Bronx,House of the dead,Duke Nukem,Cyberbots.
barlog20 1 year ago
@barlog20: Thanks!
Jawarib1 1 year ago
@tom11zz884 Well the PS had Gran Turismo, which was vastly superior to the likes of Sega Rally. Ultimately, as has been said many times before, the Saturn was to be a 2D console, not 3D; that feature was tacked on right at the end of development.
Though vastly superior technically, games were hard to program for the Saturn and so quality / quantity failed to match the PS.
All that said, I was a Saturn owner back then and I wipe my arse on the PS! Sega all the way! ;p
PJacko1985 1 year ago
sega had the best arcade to console games but what i think that screw them up was when they first release it it was $500
aznbigboyjo3 2 years ago
@aznbigboyjo3 400$ not 500$ but yea i agree but with all the xtra processors and shit it was no 'cheap' peace of equipment even today 9 processors is alot o-o
JESSIEEDSELL21 1 year ago
Sega also alienated Electronic Arts and the hardware was too expensive, lacked backward compatibility, and sold at a loss. However, any one of those mistakes, alone would not have slowed the Saturn down. It would have overtaken the PS1. It was all of these mistakes taken together that ruined the Saturn and also guaranteed no real developer support for the Dreamcast.
majesticlizard 2 years ago
@SpencerGTR... It was more complicated than that. Sega of America also got the Saturn banned from Wal-Mart and Kay-Bee toys, would not allow 80 percent of the Japanese titles to come out, and used quadrilateral geometry for which there was no developer's kit at the time. Basically, the CEO in Japan was senile and the CEO in the United States was an idiot.
majesticlizard 2 years ago
we have 3 processors ...the playstation only has one. You can tell how desperate they were to sell this thing if they started comparing it to the PS1, and actually pronounceing the competitons name in their own ad. Exactly like atari did when nintendo came with the NES.
spencerGTR 2 years ago
Wasnt it the competition for the ps1? Thats why they compared it.
incurableboy 1 year ago
dis ad is great exept the end, cockroach!
X(
mariomario8489 2 years ago
@mariomario8489 yeah that ending is very creepy.
webslinger1990 2 years ago
my saturn broke in about 3 weeks
dasquirrel715 2 years ago 2
Oo, this could be that one commercial that ruined the sega saturn.
Hispanic00b 2 years ago
well, the story of 2 processors is true. Used simultaneously in Virtua Fighter 2: a game with the highest resolution of the period, for ANY 32 bit sistem
chepxxxx 2 years ago 2
AAAH CRAZY COCKROACH!!
JackElf1 2 years ago
The problem with the Saturn was that it was a horrible system to develop software for. Most companies couldn't understand or figure out how to fully utilize the Sega Saturn's full potential. It had two processors, one to process 3D and one to process 2D, and both processors could be used simultaneously, which if developers could've fully utilized this, we would have seen games far superior to anything else on the market. Unfortunately, Sega messed up with this system, it never amounted to much
clicheusername2 2 years ago
well said
as much as I love SEGA and the saturn - this is the harsh truth
Muffincakeswithsugar 2 years ago
The saturn was like the xbox of the 90s it was a beast. the saturn actually sold well in japan and lasted a few more years there. Japan had all the sweet games too, ones that never made it to the U.S. shores. Nevertheless software was not the issue for the saturn it was management. Sega was run by ignorant people that couldn't make a decision and stick to and support that decision.
djmick90 2 years ago
TWO processors, do you hear ?!
unfortunately almost noone knew how to max the damn thing out
nooblet911 2 years ago
Ps1 Beats Saturn's ass
64 Beats Saturn's ass
SNES Beats Saturn's ass
ElboTheHedgehog 2 years ago
Saturn beats your ass.
numafan101 2 years ago
SNES? come one dude we can tell you hate sega but wake the fuck up.
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freshchr1s 2 years ago
yea tekken 3 graphics sucked it looked better on bleemcast.
jmanlingling 2 years ago
isn't Defcon 5 normal? in Wargames, they start out at Defcon 5 and count down to Defcon 1.
EmperorPoindexter 2 years ago 7
Yep,your right.They screwed up.
Glyxamaru13 2 years ago 2
lol i have just a saturn and panzer
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I had one of these and the PS1 blew it away. It had more processors, yes, but it isn't only processors that determine a systems graphical potential. And to the guy that said it's graphics approached those of the PS2, you're off your freakin' rocker! The system needed the ram expansion cart to even play some games of PS1 quality.
TRexTurtle 2 years ago
Actually, the Sega Saturn had graphics nearly on PS2 level, but N64 and PS1 were much more popular, and easier to program for, so Saturn was left behind.
Gotmilk0112 2 years ago 10
I think you are mistaken the Dreamcast with the Saturn. The Dreamcast could compete with the PS2...
Vuikie 2 years ago 5
Saturn had good graphics yes. PS1 do you have NiGHTS??!!
whattheheck1000 2 years ago 2
bull
show me a saturn game the graphical quality of gran turismo 2 and donkey kong 64
well? well?
nooblet911 2 years ago
Gran Turismo 2? LOL That looked like shit! V-Rally was the best looking racing game by FAR.
Also, show me something in the level of Panzer Dragoon 2 on the PSX. Or Nights.
Sisound 2 years ago
N64 Clearly had the superior hardware between the 3. But PS1/Saturn were relatively close to each other in terms of power and capability.
raded293 2 years ago
I don't know if you'd consider it superior - it depends what you want. The lack of a CD-Rom technology meant that developers couldn't fit a ton of stuff into most games and a necessity for low-res textures. As far as I've seen, the Nintendo 64 was really bad at 2D, as well - the best-looking 2D games I can think of on the Nintendo 64 are Mischief Makers and Ogre Battle 64 which look like something the Saturn could have churned out with ease.
OriginalName90 2 years ago
As good as Dreamcast graphics? YEAH RIGHT.
WebVMan 1 year ago
@WebVMan Key word: NEARLY
Gotmilk0112 1 year ago
@Gotmilk0112
Umm, dunno about that, that would mean that the Saturn was more powerful than the Dreamcast lol. But the Saturn definitely had a slew of horsepower that was never utilised. *points to Shenmue*
strykah92 1 year ago
@Gotmilk0112
Plus the Saturn was built for 2D games, meaning that 2D titles were generally very, very pretty on the Saturn.
Too bad most of them stayed in Japan.
lordofark 11 months ago
first theyre crapping on nintendo now sony.
sega plays hard ball in the earlier video game war
Mrguy891 2 years ago 3
Obviously, Segata Sanshiro can do better than this. Instead of saying Sega can do more than the PS1, he threatens you to play the Saturn.
footup7342 2 years ago 5
and indeed sanshiro did in fact do the job much better in japan than bernie did in america.
mikexlong 2 years ago 3
panzer dragoon, hell yeah
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JESSIEEDSELL21 2 years ago
It may have had three processors, but they created it originally to be a powerhouse 2D game system, made for things like puzzlers and 2D fighters and side scrollers. Thus, they made it difficult to develop 3D games for it. A glorious device from SEGA, but a nightmare to develop for.
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fr34kaccident 2 years ago
sega consols were fuckn good. the saturn was way ahead of ps1, sony were still learning how to play videos at that point. the xbox and ps2 were to blame for the dreamcasts sell out. still today the dreamcast is a good machine for its time. respect for sega and all the goodtimes in the 1990s with sonic the hedgehog.
tom3999 2 years ago 3
thank god they did try fucking with Nintendo again, it would but another ass kicking
Rethary 2 years ago
Sony's Processor was bigger and better than Saturn's! I still can't believe that it cost $400 and was inferior to PS one when the PS3 is $400 and WAY better than all other hardware.
WebVMan 3 years ago
Wait, we're talking about the PS3? *confused*
TenguGuy 3 years ago
nothing else matters, lol its like a spoof commercial
kaz287 3 years ago 2
sega saturn is better than ps1
rulersmg1 3 years ago 27
definately man
5595525 2 years ago 2
@rulersmg1 Yeah, that's why sony still makes console's and sega doesn't
aeroforce9609 1 year ago
@rulersmg1 FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ISNT A DOUCHE!!!!
randomboys1000 1 year ago
@randomboys1000 haha thx, lol imagine is Sega still made consoles, the graphics would be amazing!!!!
rulersmg1 1 year ago
@rulersmg1 i actually emailed sega and asked if they had plans to make anymore consoles, i also mentioned that i felt really bad because the saturn and dreamcast would have been so AMAZING if it hadn't had failed cuz of the fucking people! and i persueded them to make a second console and suggested a name like dreamcast 2. the guys reply was no plans that im aware of. but hopefully they'll take my advice :)
randomboys1000 1 year ago
@randomboys1000 I hope they take the advice because if Sega actually made a console again, it would be a good competitor
rulersmg1 1 year ago
@rulersmg1 i know i would buy it :D
randomboys1000 1 year ago
@randomboys1000 dude the SEGA Dreamstar instead of Dreamcast 2
JoostRevo 1 year ago
@JoostRevo thats cool :)
randomboys1000 1 year ago
sony playstation only has 1 >:( how gay are they
liamis01177 3 years ago 19
if the cancelled sonic xtreme game came out it would of saved the console. but since it was cancelled many critics found the system in no competition with the others.both the sega 32x and saturn should have never came to be and sega would be in the console buissness today still.
althegamefreak 3 years ago 3
what is it with sega making insults to other consoles! i understand they are competiting but they like to immtimadate other consoles.
althegamefreak 3 years ago 2
i did have a sega saturn once. i wish i had it right now!
gs20455 3 years ago 3
i wish i had mine too would be worth a bit of money now i bet, Shinning the holy ark was immence!
Addiboo147 3 years ago 2
actully it isnt not even dreamcast is a lot its worth 20 bucks!
punkelvis47 3 years ago
i remember playing virtua cop 2 all the time with the bright orange light gun, i miss sega's consoles
jewdogg202 3 years ago
I never knew anyone that had a Saturn.
Everyone else including myself was into Playstation and N64.
Guitarhero87x 3 years ago 2
Let me clear up some things:
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Why the Saturn failed:
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1. Poor marketing
2. Difficult to develop for
3. High price point
4. Distrust over the 32x fiasco
I personally love all things Sega and the Saturn is no exception. It's not a perfect console but it's 3D prowess is quite impressive as proven by Panzer Dragoon Saga and Burning Rangers. I also think the Saturn had the best controller of the generation not to mention sturdiest build quality.
DarkSoftStudios 3 years ago 2
When you've got Sega Saturn, nothing else matters... Because you spent all of your money on it creating a massive rift between you and your friends that are all enjoying the ever-so-more popular PlayStation... lol. Dont worry, I like Saturn.
Sonicwolf359 3 years ago
SEGA!
ChaosLoveSmash 3 years ago 5
mine works like new, but im looking for clockwork knight..
if u have it and want to sell it please let me know!
thanks <3
CassandraGemini 3 years ago
SEGA!
holcomb2012 3 years ago 4
SEGA! oh man I remember these kind of commercials Saturn R.I.P.
oxXDarioXxo 3 years ago
wow i wonder how saturn could have been a failure
varun009 3 years ago
It is pretty obvious why it failed.
it really is such a shame, had sega made the saturn more popular, and sold it at Saturn day instead of before the launch day, then the dreamcast would have definatly become the top seller of generation six.
the console is a bad mark in the history of a wonderful company.
Glumglufs 3 years ago 3
Lol, they did an error while writing that commercial's script, DEFCON 5 means peace. XD
Anyway, the Saturn is dead commercially, but you know you don't want to forget it when you loved it.
KaosuKaiari 3 years ago
Same old Sega console strategy "We don't know what this means but the opposition doesn't have it!"
LessthanJake14 3 years ago
sony playstation only has one lol lmfao im so bootlegin this. im tryin to sell my sega on ebay check out my vids ppl comming soon
HIPHOP4555 3 years ago
yea but sony playstation live forever with 2 and 3 version...and saturn well...R.I.P.
offboundxxx 3 years ago
well now the ps3 is the closest one to dying
ShadicChao 3 years ago 6
Sony deserve it.
Glumglufs 3 years ago
wonder why the saturn fucked up...
123calisshit123 3 years ago
sega didnt understand that more processors does not equal better console
nooblet911 3 years ago
"Sega Saturn has 3 32-bit processors" Too bad nobody in the world knew how to utilize more than one of them. There is not one game made for both PS1 and Saturn that looks better on Saturn, Take Tomb Raider for example.
AndyMertel 3 years ago
2D games looked better on the Saturn. Saturn could do MUCH better sprite rendering. Street Fighter Alpha 2, Primal Rage, Grandia, and Silhouette Mirage all looked better on the Saturn for example.
Malamockq 3 years ago 3
That is coreect. As a matter of fact, the Saturn was originally suposed to be a machine that would mostly produce 2D games. When Sega got wind of what Sony and Nintendo was doing, they quickly gave it a boost in the 3D department. Virtual Fighter 2 and Duke Nukem 3D are good examples of what the Saturn could do with the right programers. But like I stated above, good luck finding somebody who was able to do it on a consistent basis.
AndyMertel 3 years ago
One of those 32-bit processors was dedicated to loading games, in order to take the overhead for that function off the two CPUs and to shorten load times. For exclusive games AM2 would use both CPUs. One CPU would handle one fighter while the other CPU would handle the other fighter. For multi-platform games, Lobotomy Software and Tomonobu Itagaki made superior Saturn versions of their games. In fact Tomunobu Itagaki much preferred the Saturn as a system for which to make games than PSX.
ahphooey 3 years ago
I forgot to mention the name of AM2's game in my last comment. I was referring, of course, to Virtua Fighter 2.
ahphooey 3 years ago
that 3 proccesors shit really made a difference in marvel super heroes vs. streetfighter tho n the saturn version u could actually swap characters just like the arcade but u couldn't do that in the ps
suedeadidas510 3 years ago
The reason the Saturn version was able to switch characters was due to the mandatory ram cartridge (that had to be inserted into the memory card slot, that came with the game) not the 3 32-bit processors, had the PS1had the ram cartridge, it would have been just as good, if not better.
AndyMertel 3 years ago
Yeah it had two 3D and one 2D processor that the stupid third party game producers didn't understand how to use. So instead they made a massive amount of easy to produce crap for the PSX, and that is just one of the many reasons why this increadible system failed so miserably.
adventuregalley 4 years ago
i agree, you got a psn: mines RyaNtheSlayA
hollerritter 3 years ago
LOL "Sony PlayStation only has 1". It also has Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid, pwned
boenthugz 4 years ago
And what did saturn have? Lots of canceled games and a controller that only works for a gorilla.
JordanN3335 4 years ago
Don't forget Tekken 3.
meusapi 2 years ago 2
u suck jordanN3335 sega rules
moss411 4 years ago 2
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Sega Saturn was shit. I love how the saturn was released early with only 10 games! I mean WTF. And sega was releasing the 32x months later. And lets not forget about the many power adaptors needed to power the genesis,32x and the fuckin sega cd. God and they come up with the most rediculous lies ever. "Blast processing" wow something that doesnt even exist.
JordanN3335 4 years ago
There was a huge variety of anime-styled games in Japan.
sega31098 3 years ago
What the hell does that have to do with anything Anime games have always been there since the beginning.
JordanN3335 3 years ago
the sega saturn was great but It had three proccesors which made it harder for 3rd party development to make games for it cause the system proccesors are too complex the graphics are still better than psx
moss411 4 years ago
Better then PS1? Are you smokin too much pot? The only edge the saturn had against the ps1 was a faster frame rate on 2-d games. Thats it. In fact the saturn was originally a 32x turned into a system to be the fastest 2D console but SEGA realized 2D was outdated compared to Ps1 and N64 3D. So SEGA rushed it in and thats why most of its games are 2D-3D'ish.
JordanN3335 4 years ago
Correction: Sega had PLENTY of 2D games for the Saturn. In Japan, though. Bernie Stolar, who was once with Sony but moved to Sega, said "no" to 2D games on the Saturn in America like he did with the PlayStation while he was there.
Tsukento 4 years ago
notice how in all the sega commercials they point out the flaws of there rivals?
gunnerdelta 4 years ago
yeah caz sega was being an asshole to the better consoles
lucace1996 4 years ago
LMFAO random cockroach at end //!SEGA!!!!!!!
skeps21 4 years ago
back in the days. i loved this console
twisted619 4 years ago 5
LMFAO random cockroach at end //!SEGA!!!!!!!
JDMATRIX 4 years ago
who wants to buy my sega saturn it's now rare comes with pedles well msg me and i'll give u my number if you intrusted in system peace out
JDMATRIX 4 years ago
but Playstation sold 100 million systems and the Sega Saturn sold 10 million systems Im serious no offense to Sega Saturn it was a pretty good system
Playstation2013 4 years ago
It was a good system, it's problem was this: It's release was too close from Sega's previous system. And it didn't have a strong marketing plan. Nobody was ready for it.
spyder1138 4 years ago 4
The Saturn and Dreamcast where both the little systems that could i owned both saturn ans the PS i still think the saturn was better
htownfballer69 4 years ago
100% agree!
spyder1138 4 years ago 2
Segata Sanshiro > this. XD
HechEff 4 years ago
Microsoft.what a souless machine..JAPs do it best even though gc was gay. Saturn(panzer saga) genesis(phantasy stars.. dreamcast(shenmue) n64(zeldas) all looking to create something special.. wow has sucked the souls of all and in turn console developers dont give a shit about puting in effort, when money now is about who can create a multiplayer game that wastes the most time.nintendo make toys now. Go ps3, but I think bill and blizzard will rape you, and then the souls of all gamers
DJDavidColin 4 years ago