do you think it could have saved the sega saturn - /vr/

Anonymous05/12/26, 17:25No.12567558

Do you think it could have saved the Sega Saturn in the west? The n64 hanged on to life because of two killer apps, why wouldn't the saturn hang to life with one?

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Anon05/12/26, 17:27No.12567560

nothing could have saved the saturn ever. stop making these threads

Anon05/12/26, 17:29No.12567568

I know what could've saved the Saturn. You buying it when it came out.

Anon05/12/26, 17:33No.12567575

>it could have saved the Sega Saturn in the west it would have killed it even faster This shit was unplayable. Just watch the Youtube videos of trying to play Sonic through a fisheye lens.

Anon05/12/26, 17:40No.12567586

There's no conceivable way it could've ever seriously competed against Mario 64 and Crash. You have to be the most delusional person alive to think that this weird fish-eye stuff would qualify as an acceptable flagship game after the public had seen Mario 64. Nobody cared about Bug!, and this would've had a similar fate. If anything they did everyone a service by cancelling this game. It would've made Sonic look like shit, it would make the Saturn look like shit. Yes, it sucks that people genuinely tried hard to make it work, but that's just how it is.

Anon05/12/26, 17:52No.12567610

No, the idea and potential of something is always greater in your mind than any actualized result. People are obsessed with hypotheticals. It means they don't have to live in reality. It's a child's way of thinking.

Anon05/12/26, 20:01No.12567792

>3D Fish perspective tech demo >Saving anything

Anon05/12/26, 20:06No.12567805

nope because both the n64 and the psx had great platforms, so a single good sonic game wouldnt have made the difference.

Anon05/13/26, 15:08No.12569375

I thought sonic went 3D in 3D blast?

Anon05/13/26, 20:54No.12569958

It looked like fucking shit, the fish-eye lens was a terrible concept to go with.

Anon05/13/26, 21:03No.12569975

Unironically yes

Anon05/14/26, 01:15No.12570334

The Saturn was doomed right from the design phase, SEGA built it to be a 2D powerhouse that could sort of do 2.5D putting it up against the upcoming N64 and Playstation leaving SEGA an entire generation behind on proper 3D architecture. To make the Saturn a seller you would need the Playstation to just straight up not exist and for the Saturn to at least be able to do real 3D like the N64, at that point it isnt theorycrafting you're just writing pure fiction.

Anon05/14/26, 22:20No.12572290

Sonic 3D Blast was November 1996 Sonic Jam was June 1997 Both had playable 3D sections that were very competently designed and had a nice sense of speed, developed by THE Sonic Team in Japan Sega of Japan also chose not to release Sonic 3D Blast Saturn in Japan until 1999.The ex-employees from Sega of America say that Sonic Team sabotaged them by not sharing Yuji Naka's 3D engine to salvage the israeli novice dev project also supported by Bernie Stolar with a backup plan that had two american code monkeys worked to death literally over it.What would have saved the Sega Saturn in the west was having anyone other than Bernie Stolar who had a mysteriously high number of cancelled third party localizations of 2D, 3D, Japanese and even Western-developed games that were previously announced and almost ready to go for a Q4 1996 / Q1 1997 release. The one announcing everywhere as soon as 1997 "the Saturn is not our future" and who was confirmed by Working Designs to go to third parties to convince them to cancel their plans for the Saturn "or else", while trying to port Sega arcade games to the fucking Nintendo 64.If Sonic Xtreme released in that state it could have went as well as Shinobi X and killed Sega's flagship series. Meanwhile Japan didn't get Sonic on Saturn at all until 99 and still did wellThen the Saturn could have got a 1996 Nights and a 1997 Sonic Team developed Sonic game, just like the N64 got a 1996 Super Mario 64 and a 1998 Zelda OoT (imagine if that one was handled by Bernie Stolar, he'd have them delay it all the way to 2001 for the GameCube and try to port SM64 to the PlayStation 1)

Anon05/14/26, 22:27No.12572292

>Do you think it could have saved the Sega Saturn in the west? X-treme? No. A competent and competitive 3D Sonic game, yes, but only if it comes out before or around when Crash and Mario 64 do, earlier the better. Though I think they needed an 3D Phantasy Star game just as much as Sonic, something that could stand opposite to Final Fantasy VII.

Anon05/15/26, 05:48No.12572751

crash bandicoot was basically "3d sonic" and it helped launch the playstation. it's basically a 2d platformer with a behind view and a widened (but still narrow) playfield. one of the most obvious ways to turn the 2d platformer into 3d. sonic team couldn't even think of that.