Fighting games are not selling well. They are putting a lot of resources in a game that will take years to sell a couple of millions. Maybe the casual audience will be wowed by the graphics, maybe not.
I don't get what that's got to do with anything I said. I think the team will be happy with sales of 2 million mind.
I never had a Saturn but rented it a few times and played at a buddy's place. Never played NFL 97 but that is consistently a terribly rated game and going by YT videos seems worse than a 16-bit game. And Sega only made 1 Sega Sports NFL game too. Thats how bad it got.
Junk sports games I played.... NBA Action, NHL All Star Hockey (the first one), World Series Baseball (I forget which one but not 98). EA NHL games were worse too, but thats a different issue as thats third party.
Out of all the Sega Sports branded games, how many of them got consistently good reviews aside from WS 98? NHL AS Hockey 98 got ok scores and that wasnt even their game. It's was Virgin's rebranded game as they didnt even want to release it on Saturn.
So like I thought and its much the same story with people who look to bash the Mega-CD, 3DO. They've never owned it and even if they did, they played just a handful of games. And hey I get it, people can say the same of me, with rguards to PC-Eng. A system I only bought ready for the upcoming Strider on CD at the time and never bought a lot of games for it or played on it much .
Overlooking that... I don't agree with you on NBA Action being junk. I felt it was a well made game, but will agree with on NHL All Star mind. I also feel it's rather sill to mention a re-skin job and like that shouldn't count. I couldn't careless if Brian Lara on the MD was a reskin of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket on the Amiga or European Club Socceron the MD was a reskin of Manchester United Europe also from the Amiga, they played well, and I enjoyed them at the time.
NHL All Stars 98 was fab made game and one of the best 3D Ice Hockey games around and that to the better presentation was better than Powerplay Hockey 98 IMO. I also believe NHL Hockey 96 is better on the Saturn than the PS1 version too in terms of performance, but only played and owned the Saturn version of 96
I really couldn't give a shit about reviews or having the silly Sports badge on it, that meant or still means nothing to me. All I will say is I found the likes of Winter Heat, Decathlete, NHL Hockey 98, WSB 98 some of the best sports games around and most of my mates just loved Pebble Beach on the Saturn, Craig's quotes were and are the stuff of legend
It didn't get great reviews, and it looked and run like shit on all platforms, but I found Olympic Soccer to the best football game of that generation. Reviews might say otherwise but I enjoyed This Is Football 2003 more than any other football on the systems around at the time. You can shove reviews, where the sun don't shine..
Some of my fav Films, like Blade Runner, The Thing (82) and Night Breed all had shit reviews, I loved and enjoyed them all the same. I thing its sad and pathetic when people need to hide behind a review.