Instead of Sega throwing it all away on the Dreamcast and various arcade boards which were outperformed by generic PC hardware of the time?
Would it have made more sense to release the portable Saturn?
Instead of Sega throwing it all away on the Dreamcast and various arcade boards which were outperformed by generic PC hardware of the time?
2 second battery
Didn't hurt the Nomad.
I don't think the Nomad was ever popular enough to have sales decline in the first place.
Exactly.
>6th gen tendie FRICKS are RUINING this board
>hang on I gotta make another sega saturn thread about nonsense.
You up-voting the hhg ad-thread?
>bumping is an upvote, saging is a downvote
newbie tourist spotted
It works like this: you sage a thread you don't like and then bump the thread you do, thus generating an upvote.
As somebody that took a 10 year vacation from Ganker only to come back about two years ago, this may be the most glaring culture change. In oldgay etiquette, saging a post was considered polite, as it meant acknowledging your post was not important enough to make everybody else see it. /b/ would use sage as an insult, but this was looked down upon by the other boards that were more familiar with the tradition inherited from 2ch and futaba, and because /b/ was the moron containment board in general.
That's old culture anon. These days most anons don't even know what sage means
The best part is how you're unknowingly labeling your disapproval as lesser and providing nothing to threads you enjoy, extreme newbie behavior
Saturn is 5th gen you homosexual fricking octuple-Black person.
did they lower the IQ requirement to post on this board again?
Seeing as you're allowed here, yes.
The joke is to satirise the tendency of longtime /vr/ users to bemoan the low post quality on this board since the introduction of younger 6th gen players, despite their own posts being of similarly low quality, as evidenced by constant Sega Saturn threads about nonsense.
There was no portable Saturn. Pic related is a Nomad prototype.
The Game Gear failed. Why make another portable? Nintendo is king of hand held market.
>The Game Gear failed.
Yes, but not by as big of a margin as you'd think. As I recall it sold something like a quarter as much as the Game Boy, up till 1997 when the GG was discontinued. That's pretty respectable since it had neither Tetris, Super Mario, or decent battery time. Pre-1997, it held a bigger percentage of the market than the Saturn did against the PSX or N64, or the Dreamcast against the PS2 or even the Master System against the NES.
Of course all of that was pre-pokemon, which saw the Gameboy double its install base in just two years.
It also sold more total units than the Saturn or the Dreamcast, in fact it was the third best selling console of Sega.
Giving the Nomad a bigger international push would have made more sense in this context. Hell it would have made more sense to extend the Genesis lifetime this way, by turning it into a handheld, than with a shitty add-on.
The Sega Game Gear was more expensive than Game Boy. Almost twice as expensive. Sega also barely released games for it. Support was weak and Sega barely cared. They relied on 3rd party game studios to fill in the gap.
Meanwhile Nintendo kept releasing solid hit titles for the Game Boy.
Sega made the same mistake with Sega Nomad. It ate batteries and cost twice as much as Game Boy. Sega again barely released any exclusive games for it. Even worse Sega Nomad was released only in America. Not in Europe or Asia.
They sold nearly 11 million Game Gears and the software library is 300ish titles; that's not a failure by any stretch.
this is not reddit.
>They sold nearly 11 million Game Gears and the software library is 300ish titles; that's not a failure by any stretch.
It is a failure because that wasn't Sega's goal. Especially since they spent way more money than Nintendo into their product. Sega agreed it was a failure and then dissolved the hand held division. Sending the employees to go work on Sega Saturn and the console division.
it didn't make sense to release the home console in the first place
the saturn hardware was absolute buttfrick moronic
emulating the damn thing today is still a challenge
No it would not have. It'd have put Sega in the hole much sooner to the point the Dreamcast likely wouldn't have even launched in the West before it was discontinued.
Saturn was just a worse playstation. Genesis and snes atleast were on par with each other and the argument was just about which library was better like console wars should be.