“After 30 Years…”.
Sales figures, as we all know, are often used as the ultimate metric for judging the success or failure of a particular piece of gaming hardware, and no console sums this up better than the Sega Saturn.
Released in 1994 after Sega had successfully challenged the seemingly unstoppable Nintendo with its Mega Drive / Genesis console (total worldwide sales: 30.75 million), much was expected of the 32-bit Saturn. Sega knew that Nintendo wouldn’t be releasing its next-gen system for a while, and, backed by the might of popular arcade properties like Virtua Fighter (Japan’s biggest arcade game) and Daytona USA, the company could have the market all to itself.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“After 30 Years…”.
Sales figures, as we all know, are often used as the ultimate metric for judging the success or failure of a particular piece of gaming hardware, and no console sums this up better than the Sega Saturn.
Released in 1994 after Sega had successfully challenged the seemingly unstoppable Nintendo with its Mega Drive / Genesis console (total worldwide sales: 30.75 million), much was expected of the 32-bit Saturn. Sega knew that Nintendo wouldn’t be releasing its next-gen system for a while, and, backed by the might of popular arcade properties like Virtua Fighter (Japan’s biggest arcade game) and Daytona USA, the company could have the market all to itself.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
