Cerebralbore101 said:
Chrkeller said:
Saturn did not have the lineup to even remotely challenge the n64 in the US. No way I'm buying that hypothesis.
Perhaps retail stock didn't help, but it bombed in the US because the lineup was meh (I am being nice) and the price was absurd. |
The following notable games were released by December 1996 for Saturn in NA. AKA released before or within the N64's launch window of September 1996.
Daytona USA Panzer Dragoon Panzer Dragoon II Virtua Fighter Remix Shinobi Legions Astal Rayman Dark Legend (Suiko Enbo in Japan) Virtua Racing Sega Rally Championship Virtua Cop Virtua Cop 2 Sega Rally 2 Layer Section Mystaria Street Fighter Alpha Battle Arena Toshinden Night Warrior's Darkstalker's Revenge X-Men Children of the Atom Guardian Heroes Wipeout In The Hunt Shining Wisdom Galaxy Fight Legend of Oasis Nights into Dreams Fighting Vipers Dragon Force Street Fighter Alpha 2 Virtual On Tomb Raider Dark Savior Powerslave
Meanwhile here's all the good N64 games by the end of 1997...
Super Mario 64 Wave Race 64 Killer Instinct Gold Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Mario Kart 64 Turok Dinosaur Hunter Blast Corps Starfox 64 Goldeneye Duke Nukem 64 Diddy Kong Racing WCW vs NWO
A lot of people don't realize that Saturn had a really good library early on. It bombed in sales in NA and then developers stopped making games for it. |
I'd add Hyper Duel to the 1996 list. It's a great shmup and my personal favorite Tecnosoft games (Thunder Force series) shame it goes for 700 bucks these days lol. Hoping City Connection will released it as an Saturn Tribute game like they did with Cotton,Guardian Froce and most recently Wolf Fang and Skull Fang.