Comments on: Shmups: Sega Saturn vs. Sony Playstation

By: Pelger

Pelger — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:43:28 +0000

hello, I know this is old, but I just wanted to point that layer section 1 aka rayforce, is avaiable for PC too, so it’s not a saturn exclusive.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:37:52 +0000

This topic is fairly old, but upon reading it, which I like ;D and don’t care to really point out very trivial things, but I will just say to set the record straight. That you guys are all right, just exaggerated somewhat. Originally Saturn was supposed to be 2D (which as racketboy states the reasoning for the dual processor configuration) but the 3D wasn’t really added “last minute”. Sega had been designing the console since 91′ and then sony raised the bar an entire year early at E3, giving SEGA about a 3rd of the time it took to finish its design, with a 3D engine. And then they still released earlier than the PS. But common, the idea of 3D is always in SEGAs thoughts, who’s to say they weren’t gonna do it anyway, regardless if Sony was… as far as the ports being not so great, this happens for many other reasons, mostly development of games, not capabilitys of said console.

By: racketboy

racketboy — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:21:25 +0000

Yeah, I’m sure about the 3D thing — it’s a pretty established piece of trivia. It’s not as if the Saturn couldn’t do 3D without it, but it would have been even more limited.

You may also notice that Virtua Fighter’s original port was very poor and Daytona wasn’t the greatest either. Probably due to a short deadline.

By: DU0

DU0 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:03:15 +0000

Are you sure about the controller thing?
It’s like… The PSX controller has analog sticks wich are very neat when you need to control speed.
I burnt Raiden to play on my PS2, though, and the analogs didn’t work =/

And the Saturn 3D processor was not a last minute add to the console. A proof of it is that the first games that made it into the console were Daytona USA and Virtua FIghter, both fully 3D. It’s fun to think that Sonic didn’t debute this console, as it did on the Genesis and all the others ^^

By: JF

JF — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:09:14 +0000

Capcom Generations 1 is not a Saturn exclusive, it was released for both PS1 and Saturn.

Excelent site, congratulations.

By: insomnia

insomnia — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:50:08 +0000

Also, please don’t refer to those SegaBase-articles as historical fact as they’ve been proven to have numerous factual errors.