REVIEWS | SATURN
Fifth generation | 1994-2000 | CD-ROM
Games: 1,028 | Units sold: 9.26m
SEGA’s most successful console in Japan, a contemporary to the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64. A strong domestic showing resulted in more than half of the system’s overall sales and a library spanning more than a thousand games. However, poor sales worldwide would mean three-quarters of its library would not be released outside of its homeland. The absence of a mainline Sonic the Hedgehog game, after the cancellation of Sonic Xtreme, is seen as a factor in its troubles.
Games: 1,028 | Units sold: 9.26m
SEGA’s most successful console in Japan, a contemporary to the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64. A strong domestic showing resulted in more than half of the system’s overall sales and a library spanning more than a thousand games. However, poor sales worldwide would mean three-quarters of its library would not be released outside of its homeland. The absence of a mainline Sonic the Hedgehog game, after the cancellation of Sonic Xtreme, is seen as a factor in its troubles.