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[RetroGamingUK]

Not sure if you are serious with this kind of posting.

Isn't the Saturn supposed to be the console that didn't reach it's "full potential"? Isn't that what all you hardcore Saturn fans are saying all the time?

Well, the PS1 didn't have that issue. From day one, they could make good use of the hardware and produce good looking games and after that, some really impressive stuff later on. I'm sure you agree the PS1 reached 100% of it's potential since it was the easiest to develop for, had more developers working for it and lived the longest life compared to it's competitors.

So what's the issue then? What do you expect the PS fan community to do if there's nothing else to squeeze from the console?

It's only natural for the Saturn to have a more active homebrew scene nowadays, if it was indeed not squeezed properly in it's lifetime, plus it also has an army of disappointed fans who want to prove it could do better. And the same exact thing also applies to the N64 scene, which also had a bad run when it comes to "squeezing it's hardware" and that's why it also has a very strong homebrew presence nowadays producing impressive demos and games.

The PS1 has nothing else to offer. It's fans were satisfied and moved on.

PS fans (well, the general public) continued playing their old PS1 games on subseqent consoles and continued playing those big series on them (Gran Turismo reaching 100m sales for example). Talk to anyone of a certain age, especially here in the UK, and they'll recall all the big PS1 games, they became part of mainstream culture which endures.

Saturn fans cling to Saturn more because it feels like it has been forgotten by the masses, its game aren't part of public consciousness and most of its big franchises are now dead.

Look at the franchises Sega are bringing back, apart from Virtua Fighter they're all ones from the MegaDrive and Saturn days. The Saturn community was very disappointed that Saturn is the generation Sega seem to want to forget.

Whenever you see stuff on social media about the 90s you never see anything about Saturn yet the likes of cireza want you to believe no one cares about PS1 anymore, I think they're on a different planet.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Again I still a lot of love for many of Saturn's games and I feel it's a huge shame so many never experienced the likes of Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, NiGHTS: into Dreams, Virtua Cop etc.

I'd be shouting from the rooftops for everyone to buy and play the Panzer Dragoon Zwei remake if it weren't for the fact it looks like a fucking piece of shit.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Fair play, but I never want to hear you complain about PS2 again.

Fair considering it was nearly 30 years ago too?

I wasn't talking about you with regards to 30 years ago.

But since you talk of the PS2 remind us again how many of it's DC ports equaled the 480p display res much less the vibrancy of the DC versions.