Sega's management has been criticized for its decision-making during the system's development and discontinuation. The failure of Sega's development teams to release a core game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, known in development as Sonic X-treme, has been considered a factor in the console's poor performance.Īlthough the Saturn is remembered for several well-regarded games, including Nights into Dreams, the Panzer Dragoon series, and the Virtua Fighter series, its reputation is mixed due to its complex hardware design and limited third-party support.

Having sold 9.26 million units worldwide, the Saturn is considered a commercial failure. After the debut of the Nintendo 64 in late 1996, the Saturn rapidly lost market share in the U.S., where it was discontinued in 1998. The Saturn was initially successful in Japan, but failed to sell in large numbers in the United States after its surprise May 1995 launch, four months before its scheduled release date. Designed around a new CPU from Japanese electronics company Hitachi, another video display processor was incorporated into the system's design in early 1994 to better compete with Sony's forthcoming PlayStation. Its games are in CD-ROM format, and its game library contains several arcade ports as well as original titles.ĭevelopment of the Saturn began in 1992, the same year Sega's groundbreaking 3D Model 1 arcade hardware debuted. The Saturn has a dual- CPU architecture and eight processors. The Sega Saturn ( Japanese: セガサターン, Hepburn: Sega Satān) is a 32/ 64-bit fifth-generation home video game console that was developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe as the successor to the successful Sega Genesis.

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