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It’s crazy because with arcade games like Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing, SEGA could be thought of as leaders in pushing gaming into the 3rd dimension. To not have 3D games in mind from the very beginning when developing the Saturn is so baffling to me.

6:50 - Out of curiosity what's the game on the right-hand side? (The platformer)

Rayforce looks awful lot like Raystorm, for Playstation.. only higher resolution. If you can get past the resolution of raystorm, the playstation version has all this version does.. good soundtrack, and the exact game mechanics.

Virtua fighter 2 was awesome. Also, duke nukem 3D on saturn was awesome.

The Saturn is my favorite console, with my favorite game being Shining Force III (and I'm including all 3 Scenarios).

you deserve more views good stuff keep it up

Can't wait to start playing it on my new MISTer with a Retrobit Saturn controller

stupid controller port one going bad if you change the cmos battery....does Louis Rosmann fix sega?

Sorry to tell you, this "Story" has been told a thousand times.

SEGA wouldn't share vital documentation with 3rd parties, preferring to keep it for themselves so their games looked better. AM2 especially were guilty of this. Meanwhile Sony went out of their way to provide extensive documentation on every function of their machine. Sony didn't kill SEGA. SEGA did.

It IS a 2D machine though, since it still builds it’s polygons out of 2D sprites by scaling and moving them as quads.

Sega almost went bankrupt because the Saturn SUCKED, it was a sucky console and the psx raped them. Thats it

_NiGHTS into Dreams..._ was the best game on Saturn and its music was Sega Sound Team's greatest work of art. Change my mind...

Say it. "If you're not an arcade fan, and you don't speak Japanese, the Saturn offers you nothing. And it was never going to offer you anything because it was designed for Japan unique gaming culture and disregarded every human being who lives outside of Japan" Arcade ports. Arcade style games. JRPGs. Bad PlayStation ports. And 3D games that can barely keep their polygons together. I've been watching videos about the Saturn all week. It's not a great console. Watching people defend the Saturn is kind of sad in a pitiful way. People struggling to make the best of a very bad situation. And you just want to scoop them up and give them a hug and give them a proper console.

29:37 the random unqualified dodonpachi slander sure came out of left field

Honestly it'd be really nice to get a better idea on what to look for in old LCDs for retro gaming. I see a lot of ancient models whenever I'm out and about at flea marketsand rummage sales, and Id love to scoop one up if I could be sure it'd perform like the panasonic you have.

Truth be told a 1999 article I found on the Internet archive showed the Saturn sold 4.1 million in US by the summer of 1998 due to the console being in the discount Ben at rock bottom price of between $49.99 and $29.99 just to get rid of them, mind you, Sega made no money this way 😢 In Pal region it sold 1.9 million South Korea 200K Australia 60K Japan 8.8 million by 2001 The wiki version of the story was a late 1997 figure of 9.13 million. It kept selling in Japan till mid 2001. Died in the rest of the world in 1998 In August 2001 it's grand total was 13.2 million units still horrible when you consider the Genesis sold between 39 million & 43 million

I just bought two sets Saturns japanese ones. I bought two original Street fighter Alpha 1/2 for it. Play it more than my PS5 or xbox

Sega Saturns greatest achievement a cameo on the drew Carey show

4 MB RAM and we were really enjoying it. Now 16 GB is a joke 😂

muchas gracias por este documental tan interesante

Great video. Playstation was essentially a toned down Namco 11 arcade board, sorta makes me wonder why Sega just didnt try and do the same thing with their Model 2 board for the Saturn.

I like Ridge Racer more. Better playing game, better hardware, pioneering.

If only they hadn't rushed the release 😢 it could have been a much more even battle if they just waited until it looked more compelling with more games

I didn't buy it due to lack of marketing (I only save Sonic 3D Blast (meh) and some 2D Fighting game in a store a couple of times and the console gaming magazine I used to read didn't talk about it much), and the lack of IP continuation from the MD. If I was introduced to it via TR1 and RE1 for example I might've, but no one at school had it so I wouldn't have been able to trade games.

I just watched a video on the interviews with the developers of Bug! which was slated to be a launch title in America and got one of the first dev kits (the ones that were the size of a mini fridge, had no C compiler, and had to be debugged by affixing a cable directly onto the mother board) and one of the many eye opening details about the process was how late into development the Saturn's actual capabilities were "frozen", so whether or not the dual SH2 set up was always intended, it seems pretty clear that the final product was a somewhat slapdash affair and probably closer to the myth than the mythbusting here.

The daytona USA car (The Hornet) appeared as a DLC for Ridge Racer in the ps vita, included with a exclusive song made by the Daytona USA's composer, the song comes with the car, 4 gears and drifts like it was driven on ice.

The Saturn also has a special place for me because of two games I discovered in the summer of 1998: Shining Force III and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Both of those games completely changed what I thought was possible from a video game (I had never really played or heard of JRPGs before them) and changed my tastes forever.

I still think that what ultimately made them finally decide to quit the console business was the launch of the Xbox, because competing against NIntendo and Sony was already an uphill battle for them, but now you add Microsoft to the mix and the odds of Sega making even a dime making consoles drop to near zero. I would've quit too tbh just way too many major money players involved, the competition was crazy

Your real appreciation for old games is very refreshing, i loce your channel

Yans's produtions fez um vídeo sobre sega saturn baseado no seu material em português do Brasil, assim conheci esse canal , parabéns pelo conteúdo. Sucesso!

Thank you so much for putting this comparison together. This is exactly why I love RUclips so much. This is such a niche topic and you covered it gracefully here. These two games were remarkable for the time.

the paradigm between consoles that generation was so weird, playstation was born in spite of the nintendo, but it turns out that playstation is rock and sega is scissors, and nintendo is spock lol

the saturns architecture makes a lot more sense when you consider the extra chips as being like the consoles GPU where were not a thing at the time.

Fun fact (I wish I could remember where I read this). The textures in HotD were not intended to be the final ones. Essentially, the developer showed the work in progress to their boss saying something along the lines of 'of course the textures are not finshed and many are place holder. To which they were told 'nonsense, just ship it'.

For me...the greatest difference was Ridge Racer use simple Japanese Roads, then Daytona uses "virtual racetracks"... Then if You wanna see something realistics Ridge Racer has more contents than Daytona. If You want, You can see in real roads something similar ti Ridge Racer, but nothing You Can see from Daytona!!! More of this happens 2years later with Granturismo, more realistic then other game ever made!!!

My heart bumps for Ridge Racer, Psx Edition...because when I was more then a child, Ridge Racer was there with me!!! Namco makes a grratest job, including a 3rd Person View, necessary to enjoy the game worldwide!!! Make something not present on the Arcade Version, It means that the First Game on Psx OVERPASS the Original Arcade Version, because on Psx you can change differenti ways to play the game!!! With only bumper camera the game Will be useless....to gain the Sense of Speed I wanna see my car!!! Incredibile Iconic Red KAMATA FIERA!!!!!

The corner in Ridge Racer that you said that you can get around with a small power slide has tiles around the outside. If you clip it just right, then you can take that corner at full speed. I've got Daytona on the PS3, but I prefer the Dreamcast version. It just feels better, you really feel pushed into your chair by the inertia of the car on the screen. I've never played another racer that does that.

great video love it

there is not a single all-time-great exclusive game on the saturn people would ever remember, while N64 and PS1 games are always in the top10 of best games all time lists created by many people or game magazines, what killed sega is the lack of games "to go for", microsoft is in the same situation right now with xbox

Perhaps the biggest way the difficulty with 3D hurt the Saturn is in its lack of groundbreaking event titles. You mentioned the lack of a mainline Sonic title, but basically every groundbreaking title that generation had to be 3D (as evidenced by Virtua Fighter in the early Japan era). While many of the 2D games of that generation are quite respected now, I think only SotN really made major waves during the generation at the time, and possibly some 2D fighters. It wasn’t that no one was playing 2D games, but rather those were the only ones that could usually capture the imagination of a lot of consumers. PS1 had plenty of those, and even N64 had Mario 64, Goldeneye, Ocarina, and a few others. I’m generalizing a fair bit, but I think there’s some truth to it.

I dunno why you keep showing Wipeout to show off good Saturn 3D graphics instead of like, Nights or like Burning Rangers or something.

Saturn is the best console of all time.

I played Daytona USA on the saturn and it was impressing to see 40 cars on track and the horse was me... Ridge Racer hooked me for the soundtrack it's a fantastic game too, both legends!

This vid deserves more views. Covers pretty much everything cool about CRTs

I could be wrong, but judging from the naked ear the Sega Saturn's sound chip just sounds so much better than the PSX. Am I crazy?

The most successful console failure ever

I’d love to get a modded one where I could just use sd cards

He says corner, not counter. Used to absolutely hammer Ridge Racer in the arcades while growing up. Daytona didn't even come close. 👍