This is pretty much what all the Sega "what ifs" boil down to.

Sadly it would have been an impossible thing. Sega of Japan was too jealous of Sega of America because they couldn't compete with Nintendo.

SOA also had Hubris and didnt realize what they were competing against until it was too late.

And looking back at it now, maybe if they let Yuji Naka go a little sooner. Dude was clearly toxic. Let Naoto Oshima take the reigns.

They should have worked together instead of against each other

The only reason why they couldn't do that was cause those hardware are very different from the Sega System arcade boards. It's not as easy to just code them and port them to the consoles, they had to take their time compressing and taking out features to get those running on the consoles. It's not as easy as what Atomiswave and Naomi are to Dreamcast or Sega Master System was to Game Gear cause all those were basically the same hardware and techs thus why it makes for easy porting to the console but in the case of Genesis, 32X and Sega CD, all of those are waterdown and low power compare to even the Sega System 16 arcade board so porting of those games took time and that's why not all of them was able to make the jump.

master system as well, that's 4 consoles in one.

​@@VOANMega Drive was a System 16 arcade board. The games had smaller ROMs. As time went on, SEGA could've released those huge arcade ROMs (using compression) as $50 cartridges.

@@VOAN The thing is, that once you’ve ported After Burner and Space Harrier to the 32X, porting the rest of the entire super scaler catalogue from Buck Rogers until whatever came before Rad Mobile to the 32X (pre-32bit boards) should be trivial. It’s basically the same game repeated, and they have all of the Arcade assets and source code already. If the cartridge / distribution cost is the issue, then they needed a RAM cart to bundle with a CD 32X version for the more minor selling titles. Sega would know which titles are less popular, based on their Arcade cabinet sales. Sega simply misunderstood how popular and valuable their own IP was, and that there were millions of customers waiting to buy high quality versions of their existing Arcade games. Nintendo have probably 10 games that they release over and over again, and Sega HAD 20-50 similarly popular franchises, but they simply ignored them. Even Daytona USA could have had a 1996, 1997 & 1998 version on the Saturn - they ought to have continued releasing annual versions ala EA until the handling, performance and features were all intact. There was no system link, and no Career / Season for Sega Rally 1995 or Daytona, so the following versions ought to have added those features, and Dreamcast in 2001 could have gotten Daytona 2 and SCUD Race within the 1st year of launch, followed by annual versions with improved features and the tracks from the previous games brought in. By 2003, Daytona 2 could have all of the tracks from Virtua Racing Deluxe, Daytona CCE, Daytona 2001, and SCUD Race, along with online play over broadband. That’s just ONE franchise, and they could have had probably 8 annual releases with significant technical upgrades each time. CDs are not expensive to manufacture. 32X / Mega CD ought to have been swimming in Super Scaler ports. It’s SHOCKING that the Mega CD version of Super Monaco GP is just the damn Mega Drive version, and they BUNDLED IT WITH THE SYSTEM. Showing everyone that there’s no benefit to even spending the money on the Mega CD. Same game. No sprite scaling on a game that was crying out for it. Shockingly bad.

I’d love to see a 32X version of Sonic 3 Complete with little enhancements. Someday the community will make that happen.

Sonic 32X CD

I still want to see a great 32x only road rash. Something with sprite scaling

@@cndctrdjful I'm doing a deep dive on the Genesis DMA and graphics chip right now, and there is a lot more power in these machines than what we saw in most games of the day. Starfox DMA runs at 15-20fps bone stock--with no extra chips. Imagine what we could've gotten with a full dev team and replacing some polygons with sprites and a few tricks.

@@cndctrdjful That would be 😎, I would also want a full scaling game like a better port of Space Harrier or Afterburner.

Even the bonestock Genesis still had a lot of gas left in the tank. Check out some of the later releases like JurassicWorld. But after seeing Soulstar and AH3 it was obvious that the Sega CD could pull off many of the top selling games for PlayStation and PC: Resident Evil, FF7, etc, or similar games. Now imagine if SEGA had spent those tens of millions of dollars on the Nomad instead of the 32X. There would be new games and consoles sold for the Genesis-Nomad platform until 2005 at least.

You don't need Bug if Saturn launches with Sonic.

Sega should have kept the Mega Drive alive longer as it was still selling well in the west, Sega of Japan discontinued it for their own benefit because it bombed over in Japan.

@@Adamtendo_player_1 and somehow they released the 32X in Japan in 1995, after Saturn. Sega was such a mess.

@@bizarroeddie1 November 1994, the same week as the Saturn.

It'll still failed cause the Sega Saturn already exist. That will only confused third party even more cause now Sega had three consoles to worry about: the Saturn, the 32X, and the portable that should never had existed especially since the Game Gear and Nomad are still in the market.

There was a plan for the Neptune console which was basically the stand alone 32X that would still be compatible with the Genesis and it was supposed to come in under $200. But like others say, it's all about the Saturn release.

Instead of Neptune and 32X, SEGA could've released the lightweight 1993 version of the Saturn with only one CPU, 1MB of RAM, no DSP, and only VDP2. Most Saturn games in Japan only used the other chips, anyway. The extra RAM and processors could've been made avaliable an optional addon. The lightweight machine could be sold at a loss for $199 and still play 80-90% of Saturn games.

I was also keen on 32X bought it with Star Wars. Virtua racing was awesome too. Compared to my friend’s 3DO it was a bit lacking. It was just a lot cheaper if you already had a mega drive/genesis.

And i can almost agree wholeheartedly. We played the games that came out and found something great. Stellar Assault on 32x and Star Wars Arcade were so incredible to me then and they still make me wonder if the right people made the wrong choice why do these games make me so glad they (and the 32x) were created?

I didn’t even have a computer until 1997, the 32x was the only way I could play Doom which was enough for me.

@@samfrito THEY’RE COMING IN! THREE MARKS AT 2-10!

@@mikeg2491 same here! Not many people had the money for a computer back then and definitely not my family…luckily we found the 32x at a Sun TV. It had to be dirt cheap or we never would have gotten it. Thanks Mom!

I agree to a point. I love the 32x even cosmic carnage!🤯 But looking back 32x was definitely not needed. Shadow squadron is my favorite for the 32x. It's a good game in general. I think it's better than star fox. However that game should have just came out on Saturn. (Yes I know about the Saturn sequel.)

The $20 SH2 and a bit of RAM like the SVP would've still cost $50-60 and rendered 90,000 flat shaded polygons per second.

The demise of Sega. Constant and repeated fails - out of touch with the gaming public. Can't even port their own games to their own consoles - therefore their own customers can't buy their products. They're still doing it now. They could have sold tonnes of games on the PC, for example. They have enough of a library that they could have opened their own store ala Epic or GOG, and sold peripherals from their old systems by working with a hardware partner. Control pads, steering wheels, flight sticks... unbelievable how badly Sega have failed.

Lack of communiucation and inter departmental jealousy (the story I'd always heard is sega of japan kneecapped sega of north america because they hated that SoNA was successful.) Had they used the sega cd to push more compilations, enhanced ports, and given developers incentives to have second/third/etc runs of games be on cd instead of cartrige would have moved units. And that would have openedthe door for the saturn to have compatibility either directly having the hardware integratedor via a genesis on a chip that code gets sent to type situation or possibly even emulation.

I'd say it was Sega of Japan's terrible decisions and treating Sega of America like they were dumb American idiots. A good idea is a good idea, and a bad idea is a bad idea no matter where it comes from. It should have been full steam ahead, yet SoJ was way too concerned about SoA.

Man, going back to '92, there's no way I would've believed anyone that said Sega would be out of the console market in less than a decade.

@@jarlwhiterun7478 The Dreamcast was a huge redemption for them but the PS2 coming out only a year later AND being a dvd player was HUGE. Makes you wonder had Sega waited until 2000 and included a DVD player in the Dreamcast...does Microsoft even enter the console market?

I think you're correct but to be more specific, I'd say those extra resources should have gone into game development and publishing for the 32X. I'm have always believed that despite all the corporate disjunction behind the scenes, if Sega would have included 6 to 12 killer games within the launch window for the 32X (and continued following up with quality titles) that the ensuing disaster could have been avoided. I lived through that era as teen and there was a lot of excitement about the 32X. Bit wars and polygons were SHIZZ during those days and every kid slavered at images of the forthcoming 3D era of gaming. However, were kids and we were kids with SNES and Genesis consoles. Stuck in the 16bit era due to our lack of money, being kids and all. So the promise of the 32X was exactly what was dreamt of - living the 32bit 3D dream for $150. The future was in reach. Yes the Saturn was coming but kids want everything NOW! not in 12 months to come. Kids have fomo. But Sega didn't deliver. They fumbled game development behind the scenes trying to sort through their internal schism. The 32X got a few great titles but not enough and it freaked people out and faltered sales. I think Sega could have sold tons of 32X modules had they simply brought the games. They could have had a strong three year run and bridged the gap between over the 32bit generation. Their whole angle could have been "Look at how awesome these games are for a hundred dollar upgrade!". Then they could have dropped a 64bit system earlier than 1999 and taken that generation by storm. Instead, we got what we got and the rest is history.

Delaying the Saturn would have just made things worse for SEGA. The 32x would have no chance up against the PlayStation so it was pointless and a waste of resources, there was no saving it

​@@itsmatt517that's about right

@@itsmatt517 If the 32X was a baby Saturn, developers would be more familiar with the real Saturn when it came out, and would have produced better optimized Saturn games earlier on.

​@itsmatt517 Not necessarily. The Sega 32x would have been more rival akin to the SNES graphics wise because Nintendo was still releasing games on that system well into 1998 and with the Nintendo 64 already launched. With the whole obsessed, "every single game needs to be 3D" crowd, the Genesis 32x would have flourish (3D games on a cartridge) until around mid 1997 or when the Sega Saturn had bigger game bundles to rival the Sony Playstation and would have lasted until early 1999 (a price cut) before the Sega Dreamcast launched.

Getting all those parts singing together would have taken programming skill 99% of the industry didn't have or couldn't afford.

the 32X would have needed its own RAM or an external RAM cart in order to make any real use of the CD storage. It can't access the Mega CD's RAM very efficiently. An expensive game that runs from a cart and a CD, where the cart contains both RAM & ROM, could work, but that would have cost a fortune back in 1995. Possibly a plug-through cart like Sonic & Knuckles, but only containing 1MB RAM (or more), then the games' ROM cart can sit on top. Plus a CD - it would be wild, but it could be done.

@@TechRyze Ye, its pretty unlikely even if folks tried back in the day....but a man can dream xD Heck, even having cartridge games that came with an soundtrack cd woulda been neat, and was possible back then but no devs did it as far as I know. Only game I know of that used that feature was Pier Solar.

Apparently Sega also had plans for an SVP chip add-on Allegedly (I have no citation for this) the plan was to sell the SVP chip as a pass through cartridge add on packaged with virtual racing for around $100 then sell SVP chip games that would make use of it without the price of manufacturing the chip for each one.

​@@SegaLordXBut nowadays, there's probably some Einstein of all 3 systems that could probably do it with enough time and resources.

Developers also ignored the second CPU because it was just plain hard to use. Hand-coding multi-threaded assembly is difficult, and C compilers of the time were basically worthless at the task. The Playstation was just straight-up easier to develop for, between the much simpler architecture and the day-one availability of a comprehensive C-basd development kit(while Sega initially assumed people wanted to continue on with raw assembly programming). People forget exactly how much developers liked the PS1's ease of use.

Whatever anyone may say about Sega, no one can deny that they are proud of their history. Moreso than probably any other video game company.

If anything it started in Yakuza 1, then 0 has it, then they just copied 0’s version onto Kiwami and made it play out like 1’s car chase. Also the Yakuza games have a ton of Virtua Fighter moves and movesets in the game.

It was like a sampler console😅

Or just market the Saturn better in america.

Yup. Imagine if the Saturn came out in early 1996 with a reconfigured single processor, the extra RAM built in, and a fleshed out launch library of good games with full third party support. Undercut the PS1 by $20 and you got it. The Saturn killed the 32X.

That's not a bad idea... The 32X would have done a perfectly good job of keeping the Genesis in the game if it hadn't been undermined by Saturn hot on its heels... They could have given the Saturn another year or two to work out all the kinks and deliver a more well-rounded system. (And they wouldn't have gotten _wtfpwned_ at the first E3 by that legendary Sony mic drop moment.)

@@Bakamoichigei Not an option. The PlayStation problem had to be dealt with.

It's too expensive to get those SVP chip. You had to realize making one game using the SVP chip was like making a 32X by itself.

@@VOAN Yes, I know Virtua Racing cost almost twice as much as a regular game. But think of it as one of those very high end products that companies make in small amounts just to show off. It's an advertisement for the company itself: just a couple more SVP games would have presented Sega as the leader in 3D games.

In hindsight, 20 million, Genesis owners ended up switching right over to the PlayStation or PC. The Saturn was a $400 mess of chips and PS2 style memory moves by the SCU DSP. So many SEGA developers and gamers simply became SONY developers and gamers. So the only chance of keeping many of those Genesis fans was to redevelop those franchises for the Sega CD or 32X.

The Genesis did actually get 2 arcade quality sticks, a 3 button version, and later a 6 button version after Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition was released.

In Japan, Sega distributed joysticks with real (Seimitsu-style) micro-switches and a steel "lever" -but not outside of Japan. The same plastic housing was used with worse (plastic, not steel) interior parts. If you buy the American (or European) version of that stick, you can still disassemble it and reassemble it with Seimitsu components (because the housing is the right shape and size for them, etc.). How's that for "retro gaming lore"? ;-)

I think that would have flopped even more since an all in one unit would have cost likely around 220-270 dollars, and current genesis owners would feel like they were buying their own hardware twice. What would have been really cool is a Saturn with a cartridge port to play Genesis games and Saturn games, but not sure if that was feasible without having it cost a fortune.

A luxury product at a luxury price would succeed: Sega was selling something less than a luxury at a luxury price -and had already done so once before with the Sega CD.@@mattm7798

@@mattm7798 They could have done that, among the Saturn's many processors was a Motorola 68000, which was the main CPU for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

I think the Sega CD was a good experiment that by the time the market told them fmv games sucked, the hardware was already out. But I agree, they could have moved away from fmv games and just made really great 16 but games with fmv elements and then let Saturn be THE 32 bit Sega offering when it was ready.

I agree, they should have pushed the Sega CD more and forget about anything else until the Saturn. An official Sega CD + Cartridge combo console would have been better than the 32X.

The SEGA Genesis VDP could draw 256 out of 3,375 colors in Shadow Highlight Mode and do 320x448i. We rarely saw either and never saw them both put together.

I agree with your end statement that the 32x shouldn't have happened as there are more problems than you mentioned, you also have ROM costs to consider. 32x Doom was 3MB a ROM while the Doom Resurrection 2.2 mod increases it to 4MB. Larger ROMs massively increase costs and anything over 4MB requires bank switching and increases the costs again. One of the Mega Drive Jurassic Park games used 2MB by itself, adding more games and increasing asset quality would smash the costs to crazy levels. That cannot be part of the plan. Games like Virtua Fighter, Star Fox, Virtua Racing don't use a lot of textures on their 3D models, as such their ROM sizes are relatively small. You would have to think that way to keep ROM costs down. But, going along with the fun the 32x alternative you could have had the best of 3DO and Jaguar games ported to it, along with more Sega arcade home ports, and some future Saturn games. Since Doom doesn't use the VDP chips on the Saturn, it would still be CPU based on your 32x and it won't be as good as the Doom Resurrection mod as that uses both SH-2 chips while the original only used one. I wonder if the Mega Drive hardware could have been used to help, perhaps processing user input, whether enemies can hear you, and the HUD?

Add Vitrua Cop, Virtual ON and Daytona with the ability to daisy chain up to 8 systems and TV's together for multiplayer! It should have been sold at a higher premium price as an Arcade at home system and came with an arcade stick, steering wheel and light gun.

I thought shadow squadron was a must have😂

The 32X had Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing that are amazing games. Knuckle Chaotix too. Kolibri, and Spiderman the Web of Fire are also good games.

I don’t think the 32X has about 5 games that are worth playing, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing Deluxe, Knuckles Chaotix, Doom terrace that 4 games lol.

About right. I am not a hardware developer, so I can't, from personal experience, fault Sega for optimizing Saturn for 2d vs 3d, but that said, by the beginning of 1994, it seemed clear 3d polygons were the future so for Sega to continue with subpar 3d performance is all on them. By the time they realized their mistake, it seems the only solution was just jam more chips and hope raw power would save them, depsite there much increased difficulty in working with the machine.

Basically the Saturn would've ended up as the Neptune.

It needs to be more like Saturn so programmers can easily port their games, get experience with Saturn HW in general. The split of ressources and lack of transition path was the downfall of thr 32X. Also i don't know if it is possible to have bad SH2 chips for 32X. i remember the SH2s in the 32X was clocked lower than Saturn

Back then I thought they could sustain both systems at once but now I know its hard to get people into just 1 system. Its not realistic to make 2

Both VDP 1 and VDP2 were always present in the design of Saturn. This myth that a VDP was added last minute has been debunked over and over. A second Hitatchi CPU was added later, but both VDP's were always in the design.

The Jaguar sounds interesting 🤔. The N64 did well in the west, what happened to Atari?

No one could have saved the Jaguar. It was made by idiots.

​​@@roldanrosario8292 gamecube and n64 DD will be suited more than the n64.

@@penguinreloaded7756 With some support yes. Consoles in general designed their software based on the strengths of the hardware. In Mario 64 we kept entering the same stage to do different tasks because of the limitations of the cartage space. But it worked. But to your credit, if developers were staying away from the Jaguar it was for a reason. Sega Lord X would likely address this issue early on if he ever decides to make a that video.

@@maroon9273 idk, the issue with the GameCube wasn’t hardware itself, what hurt them primarily was 9-11, and using the discs they used, which turned off the big 3rd party developers and pushed them towards the PS2, because the GameCube was just as, if not more powerful than the PS2

me too

@@Poobell1me three

Me four

Which games are you missing? Might get a Out Run port one day if we got Golden axe. But I would much prefer seeing a Daytona port.

​@@John-nb6epthat Golden axe port was pointless.

@@hpickettz34 Yeah.

Ooh… has Metal Head appreciated in value? Still got my boxed copy.

@@John-nb6ep A Daytona port would be really cool. Darxide and Zaxxons Motherbase are the last two for a complete PAL set. Although having played both on my Everdrive, I think I can live without them😀

Nvidia saturn would've been much better than the saturn released. Cleaner designed and much easier to program. Spiritual successor to the 3do.

@@maroon9273 No, it was a completely new CPU/GPU using some RISC chip and nVidia NV1, I believe. I can't find info on the CD vs. cartridge issue, but it would've destroyed everything else for 3D. SoJ cancelled it.

@@maroon9273 As the 3do had more RAM out of the box there is an argument it was superior to both Saturn and PS1

@@Tolbat No, the 3DO only had the same 2MB of RAM and 1MB of VRAM as the Saturn and PS1. All had 512KB of audio RAM, IIRC, though the Saturn had the best sound. The 3DO apparently had the more powerful graphics pipeline, but the Saturn had the most powerful CPU package, at about 150 MIPS.

Sega of Japan was very stupid, however Nvidia wasn't really the name they are now. It's funny cause the NV1 released for PC had a Sega Saturn joystick port. If that happened It would probably have actually competed with the Playstation (and won ?)

SoA wanted Sega CD + SVP. SoJ called them at the January 1994 CES and told them to bring out a new console or addon.

Outrunners would have been a great game to have on the Saturn alongside the rest of the Sega Ages arcade titles, too bad it only got a lackluster genesis port

@@Whateverfloatsurboat2 Yeah but to be fair the hardware was not really capable of completely replicating the arcade game accurately

I completely agree. I was irritated that there was no outrun.

Of topic sort of but maybe Sega Lord X should do a let’s save the Mega Drive, yeah i know what you’re thinking, wasn’t the Mega Drive a success in the west? Yes it was but there’s things could and should have happened that i would have changed with the Mega Drive, especially in Japan.

You are not getting proper SNK ports with 4 MB cartridges

@@PAKA62 Indeed. But 32Mb is better than the 8/12/16Mb ports that Genesis got.

Jaguar version was far superior

Check out Doom 32X Resurrection if you have not already. It's everything we could ask for from a 32X Doom port.

​@@mikejohnson699With no music in the background of DOOM for Atari Jaguar It's one big bold claim you're making.

@@demonology2629 the music was readded years ago via mod - was rushed, there is a Jaguar project that beats 32X Resurrection already also.

@Tolbat I haven't seen this yet, And it sounds like you need a flash cart for that. That plays ATARI JAGUAR CD music. Sure , they can't make a single cartridge that can do this for Doom on Atari, like they did 32X Doom Resurrection.

Castlevania SOTN would have been an awesome addition to the lineup had it not been switched to PS1/SAT.

@@Blas4ublasphemy that would be sweet.

But that’s not the idea behind this video 😅

Or vice versa. I never saw any Saturn games that couldn't run on the 32X CD.

Or maybe keep the Mega Drive alive by using enhancement chips like Nintendo did and make a cheaper version of the SVP.

@@Adamtendo_player_1 ​@Adamtendo_player_1 Yeah, the SH2 was only $20 at that point, but so was the MIPS 4300vr and PA-RISC 7100. On the other hand, the DMA and VDP have shown that they can pull off 3D polygons with no additional hardware. The Sega CD was the only addon needed, in any case.

@@MaxAbramson3 Games like Panzer Dragoon Saga actually can't be run on the 32X Sega CD. That game required a ram cart and had 3 disc. Sega CD had no 3D polygonal capability and 32X had no ram support (one reason why there's no RPG released for it), even if you combine them, both lacked analog control which can't be done unless you own a Saturn.

This entire episode was made just so I could do it. Mission accomplished!

​@@SegaLordXAn SH2 version of the SVP LockOn would still cost $49.95, be capable of 90,000 flat shaded polygons per second, and still ne out by Spring with already developed Daytona USA, Star Wars Arcade, Virtua Racing, and Virtua Fighter. 20 months to bring out Sega CD+SVP games had SEGA stuck with their regular launch schedule. He'll, SoJ should've let SoA bring out their nVidia console in 1995 instead.

While that's good not all Genesis games will work on the 32X. In some cases you will had to remove the 32X to play your full library of Sega Genesis games.

Same

I have two, and want one or two more

I wish that Streets of Rage 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Vectorman, Comix Zone & Shinobi III were all 32X exclusives.

@@TechRyze I'm glad they aren't 32X exclusives, that way we save money. Games seem to get worst when they got ported to 32X for some reasons: WWF WrestleMania Arcade, Mortal Kombat II, Primal Rage, Brutal, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, WWF Raw, and Pitfall all plays terrible on 32X compare to their Genesis versions. They only look good but their gameplay seems to take a toll. The only three that benefits are After Burner Complete, Virtua Racing Deluxe, and Space Harrier.

@@TechRyze You would want all genesis players to miss out on those games? That just sounds mean.

You missed out on a lot of great games by limiting yourself to just SOR2 and Golden Axe.

Turn it into a portable emulation device before the steam deck exists.👍🏻

And the vita

Nah, Save the 3DS or Wii U, PSP isn’t worth saving 😂😂

Exactly! Just scrap it entirely and maybe the Saturn could actually stand a chance...but there's got to be a Sonic 4 on launch day...with no 32X just turn Knuckles Chaotix into a mainline Sonic title and make it available on launch day.

It was the changing, confusing road map that drove off developers retailers and gamers. It was so obvious back in those days and yet I see so few people now acknowledge that fact.

@MaxAbramson3 it was basically a poor man's next gen system that assumed you already had a Genesis otherwise it wouldn't work, and required its own power supply...it was a horrible concept that was dead on arrival, and killed the Saturn before it could arrive.

@@polycube868 Now that I think of it, SoA's nVidia based console (got all of two months of development for it) was more powerful than PS1, Saturn, or N64. Consider this: build that nVidia based console but use the two SH2s for the CPU/GTE to generate the 180,000 polygons per second, letting nVidia's NV1 perform the rendering. When Saturn fails, SoA and SoE would have the Sega CD + 2-SH2 + nVidia NV1 platform with over 1200 Genesis and Sega CD games already, plus a few dozen more for their nVidia CD console.

The Saturn’s failure outside Japan was entirely Sega of Japan’s making, and little to nothing to do with the 32X.

Yeah, cancel all those 32x CD games! All 4 of them 😂

No other event in human history commands as much attention!

@@SegaLordX lol 😆

​@@SegaLordX Save the Saturn, save the world.

You really think consumers would be happy paying $90+ for those "enhanced" games? You remember standard 32x games were already $65-75 right? Your idea is bad. Virtua Racing cost $90 and that was just an SVP chip. Plus, the 32x needed it's own power supply, which means that a standard cartridge connection wouldn't have enough power to run those chips, even if *somehow* they managed to make them small enough to fit in a cartridge. Please think about your ideas from an actual technical standpoint instead of just assuming that you are smarter than actual engineers who may be reading your "brilliant" ideas.

This was a well thought out and great explanation of what SHOULD have happened.

@@Boogie_the_catI would think you’re correct and was in reality what happened.

Sega should have focused on the SVP chip instead of enhanced chips inside the cartridges of existing Mega Drive games.

Amen, brother. The 32X could never be a worldwide success as long as the Saturn existed and the Saturn could never be a worldwide success as long as the 32X existed.

Yeah, turn Knuckles Chaotix into Sonic 4 and release it as a launch title. Not having a mainline Sonic on the Saturn hurt it, badly.

The 32X has no sprite rotation or scaling in hardware.

@@SegaLordX Oh... Uh, that kinda screws up my imaginary Yanme'e death animation a little bit.

I have been thinking about this also and I have some ideas. 1. Get Sega R&D 1 and 2 to develop a strong line up by launch as soon as MD R&D begins: Ports of Fantasy Zone, Shinobi, Space Harrier, and Alien Syndrome should be developed in conjunction with the coin-op versions. 2. Cease licensing our games to be played on NEC or Nintendo platforms now that we're competing them. 3. Ditch the Osomatsu-kun license and instead approach Tezuka Productions for a license of Astro Boy (think Mega Man meets Space Harrier). 4. Go all out with a series of tokusatsu commercials with the slogan "WE ARE MEGA!".