25th anniversary of SEGA Saturn

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sworddude:
it's kinda insane actually japan advertised it pretty well

Also the succes that was sega genesis in the west did very poor in japan with less than 4million units sold

Kinda hard to imagine that saturn had bigger succes over there than genesis considering it was sega's most succesfull console yet in its place of origins genesis failed hard but in the west it was well liked.

also considering that there where roughly 9 million saturn consoles sold pretty much all consoles stayed in japan only.

bikingjahuty:

--- Quote from: sworddude on December 21, 2019, 07:01:20 am ---
also majority of the good titles for saturn are in japan unlike other retro consoles in wich we usually still got the majority of the good stuff. it's not even a close contest for saturn over here quite a shame really.

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This is a big reason why I jumped into Japanese Saturn games before US Saturn games. There are a ton of great games only Japan got on the Saturn, and even in regards to the games we did get, their Japanese counterparts are usually way cheaper. Of course this is problematic with RPGs since they are so heavily text based, but games like Guardian Heroes, Diehard Arcade (aka Dynamite Deka), Shinobi Legions, and many other are at least half the price in Japanese.

Warmsignal:
I’ve been fairly active collecting for the system for about 10 years now. I’ve stuck it out with the high prices and feel it’s worth it in the end. I’ve never been keen on collecting imports for anything where a domestic version is available.

I recently acquired Saturn Bomberman which was wildly expensive, but also one of the best Bomberman games I’ve played. I have decided that I will in fact, attempt to acquire a PDS in the near future by selling off some things and coming up with the money. There are a few other heavy hitters on my list as well still yet as well as some more affordable ones too.

As crazy as it sounds, I would kind of like to trade my copy of In The Hunt for PlayStation for the Saturn version, Even though it’s regarded as a botched port, I just like the Saturn color palette better than PlayStation.

I might eventually look into some of the import games, Which I still know relatively little about aside from Bomberman Fight which would most likely be my first choice.

oldgamerz:
I had a Sega Saturn once and shared my story on here a few times. I picked up used mint condition one with all the hookups and controller with 2 games. by trading in some of my things I was not using into a remote location resale shop in the middle of nowhere almost. I had the thing for about a year till my only PlayStation 2 console at that time broke. I ended up trading my Sega Saturn and 2 games into a flea market vendor. Who proudly took it, and gave me a Working PlayStation 2 as a trade in. I had Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter 2. It was ok I thought. but since I had a lot more PlayStation 2 games than Saturn games, and I don't have a lot of money. I traded mine in.

It's kinda strange that everywhere I go in my local area today that sells retro video games, the stores have everything I mean everything except Sega Saturn video games. I honestly think that their might be more Sega Saturn consoles for sale than any games in my area for it. dead nothing A console is not good without any games.

of course I could have gone online and maybe got more games for my Saturn, but it didn't interest me. I live in the west and I don't like to import Japanese language games, I don't know Japanese. Most 5th generation games I want to play are also on the Sony PlayStation 1 and the Nintendo 64

As for the Sega Saturn games, themselves I haven't really looked into whats available for that console. Just believe that a lot of Sega Saturn games may have disc rot from what I heard about the quality of the discs of the Sega Saturn.

Warmsignal:

--- Quote from: oldgamerz on December 21, 2019, 07:24:27 pm ---It's kinda strange that everywhere I go in my local area today that sells retro video games, the stores have everything I mean everything except Sega Saturn video games. I honestly think that their might be more Sega Saturn consoles for sale than any games in my area for it. dead nothing A console is not good without any games.
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This is true. Because the majority of the games had a very low attachment ratio to actual systems sold, in other words, most Saturn owners didn't buy very much. With roughly 2 million owners, the highest selling games were in the 200,000 range, and that was only a select few titles. I would estimate that most titles were between 25,000 - 50,000 copies, which makes them pretty scarce.

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