You got quite a deal of a steal back then! And no money given to Sega themselves to profit off of XD!

The only way Sega would've had a chance in the Japanese market at that time would be if they had Final Fantasy titles and Dragon Quest games on it; as JRPGs were huge in Japan from the likes of Squaresoft and Enix!

​@@G.L.999And yet SEGA had the Phantasy Star series. PS4 was $100 on a cart but could've been put on the Sega CD for $50.

@@MaxAbramson3 Wow I didn't know that. Even most N64 games werem't that expensive as PStar4!

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@Babes & Board Games ikr probably a lack of leadership because Nintendo America and Japan don’t have this problem

@Babes & Board Games Sega of Japan was likely jealous of the success of the Genesis in the US.

The problem was that this addon was very expensive--more than a $149 Neptune. The $49.99 SVP Lock On was highly anticipated and had Daytona USA, Star Wars, and Virtua Fighter already complete--and abandoned.

The 32X is was just one of a number of problems that Sega inflicted on themselves, Sega got what they deserved.

um... 30million potential market is not bad. But why would you gimp the look of your system like that? People would laugh at you. Amazing hardware, left on the shelf again. Kalinskiiii!!!!!

@@SomeOrangeCat Right, forgot about the arcade stuff. They ran themselves ragged. LOL yeah they hurt themselves in their confusion is right lol!

@@SomeOrangeCat Exactly. But having a ravenous fanbase helped too I guess.

I mean Nintendo snes at this point was at the beginning of yr 3 life cycle, they did try to go with a cd add on using the 3dfx chip was a great step to keep them in the game another couple years till n64 came out and helped finish what was left of Saturn. 32x wasn't the worst idea, including a pack in would of been nice, it did slow down atari and 3do, but the black eye of a 2nd failed system that was a add on, then expecting consumers to bu

Nintendo did put out a small jab towards Sega in the mid 90s. They started the “Only on Nintendo “ slogan and slapping it on the upper corner of all their most popular IPs. It was very subtle but effective.

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Yes to all of this! The Saturn even had a cartridge port. Use it!

Even a backward compatible adapter would've worked for the NA/EU regions

Its the way that the Homebrew scene doesn't really seem to exist on this that will always make me wonder what its true limits are as we never saw them.

@@Zaphod-ef9yz some demos from scanvenger are impressive.

@@ciredecgellar8232 oo any recommendations and ill fire up the everdrive.

@@Zaphod-ef9yz kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prWHjcWqydTQink.html not playable i guess

Doom Resurrection shows off what it could do.

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Exactly.

picodrive is the worst megadrive emulator ever made.

@@pam8352 🤓why u hate so much Edit: it works well in provenance on iOS

@@IgnisCygnus147 because i have the original hardware and i can see and hear the difference

I used this think that, I had a 32x at launch while waiting for Saturn. These days I'm a big emulation guy, and regularly play from a tightly curated collection of around 1700 games. But the saddest thing I found is with the exception of maybe kalibri and chaotix, there's nothing else in the library that wasn't done better on the Saturn/Arcade it other consoles.

@@BuzzaB77 My 32x Originals consist of Chaotix, Doom, Metal Head, Virtua Racing, 36 Great Holes, Star Wars arcade and Virtua Fighter. All but 36 Great Holes I enjoy, it's hard to remember that first glimpse of 3D now but it was a product of it's time. The very notion of an "add on" these days and in retrospect makes very little sense. Got Kolibri on my everdrive.. haven't a clue what I am supposed to do with it though!

did you get all the games for free? I heard someone had a story like that!

@@RWL2012 Sold out.

Yep. But the damage had been done with the lackadaisical support for the criminally underused Sega CD. If the company wasn't going to properly back its $300 arcade supperscaling beast, why should anyone buy ANY of their hardware? SEGA churned out another $1,000 of kit after the Sega CD, and most gaming enthusiasts just ignored it. Those of us who paid $700 for the "Tower of Power" quickly became the laughing stock of the neighborhood, while everyone else saved up their allowance for a $299 3D leviathan from SONY.

Ya but at lesse thing's like Super FX Chip where an better option. Tech iusses at the time is manily why I never baramed Nintendo for not making an CD drive for the SNES. I wound have loved it the N64 had CD drive that cound play carts as will. In fact I wound not be sopized of the Saturn had such apdeter for Gensis games. Of couse today we don't have those kind of iusses. Unless your moving an app form the Intel and AMD chips to the ARM chips all you relay need to do install software and your all set. In fact that's how the Intel based MACs ran Windows games. Tech iusses was also why Bleemcast only worked with the games it was set-up for.

Yeah, I really do think just skipping both the Sega CD and 32X and going straight from Genesis to Saturn, just like Nintendo went from SNES to N64, would have been so much better in the long run.

Exactly. These manufacturers treated their hardware as merely commodities. They could have been much more powerful had they used better and custom architectures. Look at what Acorn and Argonaut did in hardware with tiny teams, for example.

@@inceptional The 32X was utterly unnecessary and pointless yes, but I love the Mega CD add on for the Mega Drive. It may not have been a commercial success but I love it's varied library of games, which is much larger and contains far more quality than the 32X's limited and largely pathetic library.

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The Dreamcast, was merely a placeholder for the PS2 to inevitably destroy it, basically the Dreamcast had no chance against the PS2 as the damage to their reputation was irreversible at this point, it was too late for Sega and the PS2 was the final nail in the coffin for Sega who ultimately got what they deserved.

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Ouch, very understandable. I didn't buy any of them, it was confusing what would be good. I never bought any from that generation in the end, they looked mostly bad too me. PS2 started to look good imo.

The 32X was when you realised that you made a mistake investing in Sega and should have got with Nintendo instead.

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I agree. The Nintendo 64 was cartridge based, and although The Sony Playstation was hitting the discs I truly believe had Sega have stuck with the 32X instead of making another 32 bit system their reputation would have at least stuck with the crowd as far as their initial customer base. I'm not saying the Saturn didn't stand out, and certainly their games were frickin' awesome, but it really did doom Sega's customer support in how they handled everything. If I had been a Sega supporter (and I wasn't at the time because I was a Nintendo Dweeb.... I still am 20 something years later) as a child my mother probably wouldn't have had a problem with this kind of an add on system (there's no way she would've gotten me The Sega CD though) it would've stuck like glue just for the fact alone that I could play my Genesis games and 32X games on the same system respectively. I believe Sega would've had a better chance for survival, and their customer base would've been absolutely enthralled with the idea of a system that could play not only Master System games (with the add on) alongside of Genesis and 32x games as well. It's too bad really. With their reputation in the Arcade industry at the time and their systems it could've really been a possibility that they would have dominated the market and knocked Mario out of his shoes had Sega just of kept their horses held for a spot. Does this resonate with anyone else? I'd like to know what you guys think of what I'm saying here....

@@therant3837 As this video highlighted, the 32X came out as a response to the Atari Jaguar, Nakayama was worried that the Atari would take too much market share before the Saturn arrived. The 32x: - combined with price of the Genesis at the time equaled the price of the Jaguar $249 USD. -DOOM was a launch title and killer app at the time, which showed up a week later on the Jaguar. It was conceived, developed and released all in 94. The problem was Sega of Japan had started developing their next gen 32 bit console back in 92. They knew all along that the Saturn would be their next console not the 32X. They definitely should have stuck with one 32 bit console.

@@lazarushernandez5827 Darn my Bipolar senses! I must have missed that in the video. I'm having a Homer Simpson moment. DOH!!!!! :)

Sega should have delayed the release of the Saturn and never released the 32x.

@Super Sexy Sega - ... Sony spooked 'em with the PlayStation. The Saturn showed up in the U.S. outta nowhere for $400. Didn't matter that it was 1st. Alot of people waited for the $300 PlayStation, myself included. I really liked the Saturn for it's quality 2D fighters + 6 button control pad.

Canada is lumped in with the US. It's called the North American market.

Yes and release earlier like around late 92 or 1993.

it was all on Sega Japan's head for getting too full of themselves.

@@theghost6412 I think Sega of America made at least as many bad choices for the same reason

@@MaxOakland it was mostly Sega Japan though. They allowed their reputation as the biggest and greatest game maker to go to their head. Sega America planned well ahead of themselves and had three consoles in R&D and had plans to release them over the next 2 decades. Japan forced them to drop everything and sell what they had because whatever they were working on wasn't worth the risk or trouble and Japan had the only feasible idea. Those ideas were snatched up by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft and became some of the best systems and their starter platforms for the companies.

@@theghost6412 but Sega Japan didn’t like those consoles. The consoles were bad ideas History shows that console add ons like the Sega CD and 32x are almost always failures. Look at the reason the Wii U failed: people thought it was an add on to the Wii

@@MaxOakland Sega Japan didn't like those consoles because they were not their idea, and they also had weird programming. But as history pointed out, they were not a bad idea at all as they took off and helped found two new competition players in the industry. It was Sega Japan that made the incorrect move and had the bad idea that flopped and also bowed the company out of the race.