disolitude said:
1. Disaster at launch: Over priced their console that was missing promissed features and had no killer games at launch. Priced at 499 and 599 and still losing money, gamers were expected to get second jobs to afford it. 2. Bad console design (hardware): Despite being a year late it had similar if not worse performance than its competitor, with many devs studios expected to work overtime just to port games from PC and competing consoles 3. Bulky console: It looked like a sealed BBQ and was massive 4. More expensive: See #2 5. More popular in one area: Other than Europe, the console didn't sell very much anywhere else for the first few years 6. Same launch year as a competitor: Wii.
See what I did there? Seriously, you can spin these arguments for every console that wasn't very successful. As far as the Saturn: 1. Saturn launch disaster was completely different than Xbox disaster (or PS3s) 2. Bad console architecture (not design) - Saturn and Xbox one bad architecture are in a different league. You could make an Xbox one game. Only issues devs are having is because its less powerful than PS4 and they are trying to keep performance at par. Saturn on the other hand needed the programming elite to make games run properly 3. Saturn didn't require a power brick and wasn't much bulkier or uglier than other console at that time. Also it was 10 times more reliable than PS1 4. Yes it was more expensive. You win this one Jack! 5. Lots of consoles do better in one area but Saturn got outsold by PS1 4:1 in Japan. It failed...everywhere. Xbox may even eventially outsell PS4 in USA. Quite a difference 6. Most consoles launch with a competitor around the same timframe. Its like saying sky is blue and not really an argument that proves anything... you may as well argue that both were back with white variants and had disk based games. |
1.Completly different??? , agree with u, "BUT IT'S STILL A DISASTER"
2. Yeah I was wrong it should "be bad hardware arcitecture design, or eccentric design, that lead to wastefull hardware and useless for 3d games. and resulted glorified 3d rendering on PS1".
3.Saturn in my country or atlest ASIAN country use power brick, 10 times more reliable ??? that is arguable ( I've got mine white saturn color NTSC Japan with power brick)
5.Yeah Saturn is far more worse, i agree maybe for this one Wii u is more close to the Saturn , but Saturn initially was targeted for American costumer and SEGA is more famous on US that's why many Xbox fans are SEGA fans.
6.Or maybe targeted the same consumer, intend to compete directly with PS1 and announced at E3 and at the same time got kicked by Sony confrence with the announcement of PS1 with more cheeper price.
This is my opinion thou but i get this opinion based on reading articel on Xbox One prior to launch disaster and E3 announcement and my long observation in my early years with Saturn VS Playstation on 97s era and current gen. (I've been there :) )
