What Went Wrong?

What Went Wrong?

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Any OG anons care to redpill me on the Saturn? Never played one but hear the sprite based games BTFO PS1 equivalents

Third party developers were sick of Nintendo's NES/SNES policies and gave them a middle finger with the playstation

Textbook example for quality over quantity.

Nice try Nintendie but there's so many good PSX games I could almost list as many as the entire N64 library.

Sega shot themselves in the foot in many ways (price tag, difficult architecture, releasing it on the day of announcement) and Sony had an architecture that was easy to program on, Nintendo also shot themselves in the foot by using carts over CD's and coming out two years later.

Takes less time and manpower to program on the PS1 than it did Saturn or N64, so more people would flock to it to makes games for it leading to people buying PS1's and thus more people want to make games for the PS1.

Such a shame we didn't get the universe where Sega and Sony did team up to make the Sega Playstation, thanks again Sega of Japan.

>quality

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fighters are all better on saturn thanks to more ram, especially with the ram cart (which also eliminates load times,) sprite graphics tend to have smoother rotations and there's more 2D centric effects like per-scanline distortion such as in water and heat haze effects (mega man x4), as well as an infinite plane technique which allowed for detailed horizons. Because of the higher memory capacity large 2D assets could be used without issues, such as in Grandia's battle backgrounds which are literally twice the size of the PS1 resolution. Some of these effects were used for flat backgrounds that were significantly higher detail despite being in a 3D space because of the 2D capabilities of the system such as in Grandia's overworld and towns.

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3D games drool, 2D games (mostly) rule, EOPs stay out.

You should grow up and stop using marketing ploys as arguments. 90% of n64 library (and every console) is forgettable.

start then
i'm waiting

didn't they still have same policies with n64?

I never saw a Saturn in person until 2008. No one I knew had one and I never even saw them sold in stores. For the longest time I actually thought it was a prank and they didn't actually exist.
I actually thought it went from Genesis to Dreamcast.

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Sega of America is also to blame for clinging onto the Genesis instead of focusing on the Saturn.

>I never saw a Saturn in person until 2008.
its hard to see a console from before you were born

Fans of the Saturn are unironic weeaboo hipsters, most of the library is inferior ports and VNs. The truth hurts.

Same. except I still haven't seen saturn in person.

>NES
Good
>SNES
Great
>N64
Abortion
>Gamecube
Lukewarm
>Wii
Crap
>Wii U
Shit
>Switch
Eh

I'm 28, I learned that they actually existed in 2001 when I found out what video games forums were. The part of Canada I live in just didn't have them.

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>great
>inferior port
>shit
>shit
>great
>great
>meh
>great
>good
>shit
>shit port
>meh
>meh
>meh
>good
>good
>meh
>shit port
>great
>shit port
>shit
>shit
>great

Wii is unironically the most underarted nintendo console.
Ps3/360fags can't cope with the fact their console lost to a gimmick.

>doom 64
>port

>no Goemon
So close yet so far

I had to really think back and I did see one outside of stores during its lifespan exactly one time at this girl's house I went to as a kid once and for some reason her dad bought them all Sega consoles. He was a weird but cool guy.

im implying all these games are shit. no quality on n64 at all

I can't believe anyone defends Castlevania 64. It came out in 1999 but looks like a launch title.

You did a terrible job leading with the most critically acclaimed game of all time then.

It's the only good nintendo console in the past 25 years but all the good games sold like shit.

Great for arcade ports but only worth getting one if you speak Japanese, SoA were hilariously retarded and decided not to localise any fucking games for their system. Absolute genius business decision I tell you

wii u is more underrated. mostly because it also plays wii games so it's basically just an upgrade to wii

N64 got less than 200 games released in Japan, kek!

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>the most critically acclaimed game of all time then.
That's the last of us.

I'd still nominate the GameCube as Nintendo's most underrated console. To this day it gets so much hate despite Nintendo trying to make up for a lot of the N64's flaws during the sixth gen. The GC was bursting with creative games and genres that Nintendo had previously ignored.

would be better to have 3000 when only 20 are worth playing?

>Favorite PS1 games
MGS1, FF7, Vagrant Story, Suikoden II, Front Mission 3, Silent Bomber, Armored Core +MOA, Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Final Fantasy Tactics, FF9, Jade Cocoon, Harvest Moon: BON
>Favorite N64 games
Fighter's Destiny, Legend of Zelda, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Doom 64, Harvest Moon, Starfox 64
>Favorite Saturn games
Dragonforce, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon, Power Slave, Die Hard Arcade, Guardian heroes, X-men vs Street Fighter.

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If the Wii U had a different name, wasn't a marketing failure, could play Wii U, Wii, and Gamecube games at launch, and had the gamepad portable and not the default controller, it could've been saved.

>Fighter's Destiny
>Armored Core
Based AF.

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>implying anyone plays more than 3 dozen games on a console

Except Mortal Kombat Trilogy

More like Sega of Japan is too retarded for forcing the early US launch and forcing SOA to kill the Genesis when it still kept selling tons of units.

I think it predates the ram cart. That or western devs fucking up as always

>saturn
difficult to program for
>ps1
CDs were the future
>n64
nintendo and their stupid proprietary formats

Saturn was the undisputed king of 2d in an era when everyone was trying to get on the 3d train.