How would Saturn have done if they notified retailers before hand and stealth stocked them in advance

How would Saturn have done if they notified retailers before hand and stealth stocked them in advance

how me a dog learned english?

Probably still not great. Aside from only releasing to around 4 exclusive retailers at launch, remember that it came out in the US in 1995. Household internet was still not very common, otherwise people got their gaming news from magazines like Gamepro or EGM. Word that the thing had even released would be difficult to get out.

It would've been the same. The biggest issue with surprise launch was that developers weren't even notified. By the time they scrambled to put something together the Saturn was old news. Think of the Wii U - the majority of its third party catalogue came out during the launch period. If Wii U had a surprise launch it wouldn't even have those few third party games.

This.

It might have done okay if they hadn't been idiots and released it normally with plenty of advance hype, but it wasn't just the stupid rush that hurt it, it was also the fact that Sega of America had already peddled a bunch of trash addons for the Genesis that really hurt their perception with American customers, and by suddenly revealing the Saturn they were basically pulling the rug out from under them. Like, you know how shitposters on Cred Forums go on forever about how Nintendo is abandoning the Wii U so early when they're really only doing it one year earlier than a normal console lifecycle for them and they already released a pretty decent number of games? Well what people say Nintendo is doing is what Sega actually did with the Sega CD and 32x. Sold people expensive doorstops, created almost nothing of value for them and then dropped support immediately.

It really does suck horribly. History would be very different if they hadn't blown it so badly. Developers who jumped ship on Nintendo may have gone to Sega instead of Sony, and Sega vs. Nintendo might still be the order of the day.

Maybe at first.

But the price and Bernie Stolar would have eventually killed it anyway.

> Sonic 3 box when it's supposed to be 1
> Dying on the first fucking boss
> Supposed to be being played on a Genesis, yet the screenshot is zoomed in thus is from a port

I'm mad

how the fuck do you gameover at the first boss

>I'm mad

Sonic fandom is worst fandom

Better, but still not great.

The ps1 was a better product, still, as was the 64. Saturn was too clunky and unrefined.

How would the Saturn have done if Sega released it as a 2D beast that had little to no 3D processing power?

Poorly.

They would have been releasing a 2d console a year after the playstation 1 and not long before the 64.

Has nothing to do with sonic fandom, its a set of wedding toppers for "Gamers" theres multiple ones for Resident evil, Call of duty, Halo, SMB3, minecraft, etc.

The question should be:
How well would the Saturn have done if they released an actual Sonic game with Stealth and Taxman? :^)

Dubbayou Tee Eff. is wrong with people?

How well would the Saturn have done if Sega didn't decline that random SGI deal and put the chipset that ended up being the Nintendo 64's in the Saturn?

How well would the Saturn have done if Bernie Stolar wasn't a completely retarded hack saying "Saturn isn't our future" a year or 2 into the systems life?

>Minecraft wedding toppers

They're old enough to marry now huh?

They should have used the concept of Sonic 3D Blast and made it an actual 3D game. It wouldn't have been great, but it would have been better than Xtreme.

It was expensive as fuck at launch

>game cover shown is Sonic 3
>game footage is actually Sonic 1

US GAMERS

How well would the Saturn have done if Sega had the foresight to realise that 3D was the future and designed the Saturn with that in mind instead of slapping a bunch of processors in it midway through development?

How well would the Saturn have done if they had scooped up Sony when they had the chance and actually read the contract before accepting the deal?

>There is no Sega PS4

What could have been.

That's what the Saturn is, though.