The failure of the Saturn led the PS1 to become the 1st 100M seller console, and PS2 become the beast it was. Had Saturn not fail and take market share from PS1, there would be less hype for the PS2, the DC wouldn't have to be rushed, come out with better specs and possibly a dvd drive. Remember it is a 1998 console, DC was going up against the PS1.
A lot of the big 3rd party PS1 titles would've been on Saturn as well like FF7 and MGS, had Sega been as forward thinking with the Saturn as they were in the arcades. Namco's arcade systems would be based on Saturn hardware instead of PS1 considering how big they were on the Megadrive.
But then they wised up regarding arcade stuff with the DC, just when arcades were losing popularity, and the 3rd parties that made the PS1 big went on to make the PS2 big.
