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I remember the first pics that Gamefan showed of Tomb Raider starring Lara "Cruz". Those were PC screens. There were no Saturn screens available yet so they showed those. PC gaming mags had mentioned TR before Gamefan did.
Tomb Raider Gold is just a special edition. The regular one came out on PC too around the same time as the console versions.
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Originally posted by Ashod
The Saturn was ahead in sales until FF7 was released? That's news to me.
Edit: Some proof that the Saturn was ahead of the PS in terms of sales would be nice too, Yoshi.
www.atani-software.net/segabase/
Sega's Saturn and Sony's PSX were neck and neck in sales for the first 9 months. Read a link, for the lowdown on what really happened.
I bought my PSX for Warhawk and Destruction Derby. Both were impressive games, that my Saturn just did'nt offer. I feel that games like Gameday and Resident Evil sold US gamers on the PSX. The US market loves NFL football, and this same market bought Genesis consoles to play sports games. Sony new this and took advantage of it, while Sega completely forgot what sold the Genesis in the first place (Madden).
You hit the nail on the head here. I had the Saturn at surprise launch in May 1995, but it wasn't until RE, GameDay and FaceOff were released that I got a PS too.Quote:
Originally posted by gamevet
I feel that games like Gameday and Resident Evil sold US gamers on the PSX. The US market loves NFL football, and this same market bought Genesis consoles to play sports games. Sony new this and took advantage of it, while Sega completely forgot what sold the Genesis in the first place (Madden).
That was an interesting link, but I do not know how much I can trust a site like that. Especially since its main focus seems to be exclusively about Sega. And then while reading the history of the saturn, I noticed the article had many errors in it. It first mentions how the Saturn takes the lead by overtaking the Playstation in number of sales. Then a few sentences later it says that Sega was actually counting the amount of systems it shipped to stores and not how many they actually sold, so Sony was actually in the lead. Then some paragraphs down they go back and say that the Saturn was actually outselling the PS at the time. So which one is it? I'm confused with that.Quote:
Originally posted by gamevet
www.atani-software.net/segabase/
Sega's Saturn and Sony's PSX were neck and neck in sales for the first 9 months. Read a link, for the lowdown on what really happened.
And the article also claimed that, and I quote: "Did anybody still consider Sega's Virtua Fighter a threat when you could play Namco's Battle Arena Toshinden". They also mention how VF2 on Saturn was a perfect port..uh, no it wasn't. It was a very good looking game, but not perfect by any means.
It was an interesting site, but I don't know if I can trust everything they claim.
Edit: That first paragraph I wrote was in refrence to the site's "history" of the Japanese Saturn and PS launches, not the North American one. Just in case anyone was confused.
While it is rather Sega coated, it still portrays a somewhat accurate veiw of what happened during that era. They did go on to the behind the scenes reactions of Sega executives and their gameplan. Still a good read, and a somewhat accurate portrayal of what happened.
Do the mod chips make the X-box "backwards compatible"? If so, my friend is selling me his "special edition" X-box (JP) for $150!!