Sony PlayStation VS Sega Saturn - Game Sack

"I really wanted a Zelda game on CD". Luckily, you could play it on the Philips CD-i... :O

The real winners are those who lived through this era and experienced the excitement of the time. 1995 was an amazing year ! The jump from 16-bit to 32-bit was just amazing and unlike nowadays , it was mind blowing seeing the 32-bit wars start as soon as the 16-bit wars ended, and all the bit players ( 3DO , Jag , CDi ) crash and burn while these 2 slugged it out. Anyway I believe that if more Japanese Saturn games were brought over the system would have lasted longer. My question to Game Sack is how come we didn't see any 3D games take advantage of the 4MB RAM cart ? Would that have pushed Saturn graphics past PS1 ?

With all the resources Sega had, they needed a Sonic launch title. Even a 2D Sonic game at first and later on a 3D experience would have been a game changer for the system.

Sega adding 3D chips to the Saturn at the last minute wasnt the problem.. Not sharing their secrets to 3rd party developers, forcing them to learn on their own was.

I miss when consoles weren't exact replicas of one another.

Soon as "Rollllllinnnnnng starrrrrrt" plays christ brings tears to my eyes so many memories

I love the look of the Saturn. Reminds me of a jet black sports car.

Thing is Saturn has both Suikoden I and Vandal Hearts lol. I have both!!

Saturn got COMPLETELY shafted in the US. I owned one and was really disappointed in the amount of games I could actually locally get. The real magic is in Japanese releases.

I own both consoles, Great machines, good old times! With 20 years they still working! Great video

Soul Edge/Blade's opening is still one of my favorite songs today. TO SHINE!

Seems like Sega was always a bit ahead of their time, but early adaptation of new technology's of the time came around to bite them in the ass. Main examples are rushing the Sega Saturn and especially Sega Dreamcast to market just to be outdone a year or two later by rival company's. I suppose this could even apply to the Sega Genesis... It came out in '89 to outdo the NES just for the SNES to come out two years later. Same applies to the Dreamcast coming out in '99 ('98 really) to crush the PSX and N64, but failing to utilize DVD technology to compete with the upcoming PS2!

It seems like AAA games from this period were much more varied, since games were still aimed at "gamers" instead of the general public. I hate that AAA games try to appeal to everyone now days, since that pretty much sucks all of the personality out of them. It's a kind of Jack of all trades, but master of none situation, I guess. What do you guys think?

The Sega Saturn can do 480p?!? 😱😱 Even earlier than the Dreamcast

I feel like Saturn was lowkey an INCREDIBLE 2D SPRITE-BASED console when everything was shifting to 3D polygons/triangles and unfortunately, it made the Saturn get OVERLOOKED in the public perception. Because despite Genesis being a household name, it seemed like EVERYONE I KNEW GROWING UP moved to the PlayStation rather than the Saturn which was SO STRANGE TO ME at the time considering Sega was a respected name in gaming at the time and Sony hadn’t yet proven themselves.

Would love to see a game optimzed perfectly for the saturn to see its true power that was never fully implemented. I loved mine and enjoyed every moment playing it.

In hardware terms Saturn was...the PS3? Damn.

"I like Saturn better than PlayStation, but we have to be realistic." That's fantastic. That's how not to be a freak fanboy. This should be taught in schools. (Sega fan here)

Game library on the PS1 was amazing! Tenchu, FF7, Twisted Metal 2, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Driver, Tomb Raider, Tekken, Syndicate Wars, GT2, Silent Hill, Resident Evil...not to mention the game trailer CD's that had Korn music videos. Man, those were the days. The crazy thing is, I haven't owned a console since the PS1 since I found true power in with the PC in the early 2000's. PS1 will always be my console though.

"I really wanted to play a Zelda game on a CD". Well, there was three Zelda CD games. But we do not speak of those!