Depends on who you ask...EvilRyu2099 wrote:I thought the product was good, never had a high failure rate and ran the software properly..
OK, but that has nothing to do with what I was saying. I understand why it sold better, but that has very little to do with the consoles themselves.I never said the PS was better than the Saturn and I still don't think that, but I'm just arguing on why it outsold the other consoles..
PS1 and Saturn are actually very different beasts. Mega Man 8 and all of Capcom's fighting games turned out much better on Saturn than on PS1, yet their first Resident Evil game turned out significantly better on the PS1. Clearly that suggests some kind of difference exists in the hardware?All three consoles in that era were identical... Actually scratch that, the PS and Saturn were identical consoles for the most part... The N64 actually ran on more powerful hardware..
There's quality of workmanship and manufacturing, for one. I don't know if you've taken either console apart, but the Saturn is much better put together. There's also the issue of what can one product do that the other can't--how much potential is in it? Saturn had the upper hand in terms of quickly handling large numbers of 2D sprites, which accounts largely for its popularity on this forum. It also had much better 3D capabilities than most give it credit for. I'm assuming from your previous remarks that you have not actually watched the footage of the Shenmue beta for Saturn, which was no mere tech demo. It included several completed game segments IN ACTION that matched or surpassed anything we ever saw from the PS1. It's entirely plausible that the Saturn had more potential than the PS1 in 3D games, not just 2D, but that potential was left unharnessed.Define what makes a console Better? I can only think of how it functions and what software is available..
That depends entirely on the software. Both consoles used a 2x CD-ROM, so the discs are read at identical speeds.In fact, the playstation had slightly faster loading times from what I remember...
I watched all three consoles closely from launch, but bought the N64 first, then PS1 (because I was a huge Mega Man fanatic, and Mega Man Legends was moved from N64 to PS1), then Saturn. I favored the PS1 over the Saturn initially, because as you say, they did a better job of selling it to me. When I say I watched them closely, this was in terms of what was being presented on in-store playable kiosks and on TV, and at friends' houses...I purchased a Saturn prior to getting a PS and didn't even have one until christmas 1996..
It was once I owned a Saturn and started to discover all of the Saturn games I overlooked due to lack of publicity that I changed my mind about it. NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon impressed me before, but that was all I really knew of then. I had never heard of Burning Rangers or Astal. I had never compared my collection of PS1 fighting games to their Saturn counterparts. Once I did, I sold off all the PS1 versions without a second thought. It was the experience of letting a quality product finally speak for itself instead of letting marketers try to tell me what to think. THAT is what SHOULD sell a game console. I know that it's not and never will be, but that doesn't change what ought to be.
