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Message: [QUOTE="TamagotchiTamaHero24, post: 250456, member: 215120"] Both things can be true. Japan, from what we know, was just as hungry for 3D as the rest of the world! But the difference lies in how the market didn’t dismiss games for not being 3D. As a whole, the market wasn’t as easily won over by shallow flashiness. Sadly, that’s not the case in the U.S., and you have several infamous examples of games selling well that weren’t very good but were carried by some hook. And being a larger/more spread out region, it wasn’t as feasible for a niche game to gain an audience when it would have to be sent to so many stores in so many places that are so different and isolated from one another. The region is, quite literally, built different. Sales, impact, all of that matters less nowadays. Systems are no longer competing. They can all be emulated on one device, so we get to see their game libraries in the most raw form. Saturn is finally able to just… be. Have banger games. Show that it has a vibe all its own. And even back in the hardware itself, the system is a very different approach from what the popular 32-bit option was, so it stands out. And in a good way, as Saturn’s expense meant a stronger build quality for their drives than the PS1. The Saturn is finally free to be itself, and that’s garnered it far more fans than it ever had during its commercial run. [ATTACH type="full"]85805[/ATTACH] We shouldn’t lament the system’s financial woes. We should celebrate the great games it was able to give us in the time it had. We should celebrate the surreal, space-y vibe that much of the library seems to radiate. We should celebrate the beautiful 2D art and animation it was able to show. We should celebrate the unique look and feel its 3D games brought us. We should celebrate the amazing controller it comes with and the many amazing add-on controllers you could find which all boasted beautiful build quality. We should celebrate the Saturn, because we as a collective have been neglecting it for far too long. [automerge]1751323731[/automerge] (And to all those who have been championing the system and its games since the 90’s, you get to tell the rest of us a big “I told you so” -w-) [/QUOTE]

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