The Sega Neptune

[Baloo]

IMHO, there's a lot of things Sega should've done here.

In 1995, Sega should've kept going with the Genesis and the 32x (Sega CD was fine enough to cut support for, same with Pico and Game Gear) along with the Saturn, because everyone knows that the Genesis still had a good 2-3 years with it, especially with the 32x. The 32x could've basically acted as a counterpart to the Saturn for owners of the Genesis who didn't want to buy the Saturn. Instead, they cut off the Genesis and killed themselves when the Saturn tanked.

[heybtbm]

The Sega Uranus doesn't have the same ring, does it.

[8-bitNesMan]

The Sega Uranus doesn't have the same ring, does it.

No, it has a brown ring *rimshot*

[otaku]

I would have kept going with the genesis and can even see the 32x and sega cd add ons as fine to do but they handled the saturn launch all wrong and it should have had Sega cd support and genesis support would have been great. sega was major add on crazy.

[chrisbid]

the 32x and sega cd did not kill sega, they may have pulled resources from the genesis and saturn, but they were secondary problems.

two things killed sega

1- they abandoned the genesis too early and 2- the saturn was overpriced and underpowered

the 32x couldve been used as an inexpensive stopgap that addressed both of these problems by extending the life of the genesis and buying R&D time for the saturn, but sega never had a cohesive plan, only a bunch of bickering cliques... failure and hilarity ensue

[parallaxscroll]

The 32X should've never have been released. The SegaCD should've been given more advanced video processors for handling more sprites, colors and smoother scaling & rotation. The SegaCD would be the only upgrade the Genesis gets.


The Saturn that came out, with its mess of an architecture and poor 3D polygon capabilities, also should never have come out. Instead, Sega should've worked closely with IBM or Hitachi and most importantly, Lockheed Martin, to design a powerful, clean, 3D-capable console using PowerPC CPU and Lockheed Martin Real3D graphics chipset. The 3D polygon performance, texture-mapping and image quality would exceed the Model2 arcade board as well as the unreleased 3DO / Matsushita M2 console and the 3DFX Voodoo Graphics PC chipset, not to mention the lowly PS1 & N64 consoles by a huge margin. Lets just called it 'Exodus' to avoid confusion with Saturn. This would be the true successor to the Genesis and would see Sega through until at least 2000.

Therefore there would be no need to rush the Dreamcast out in 1998 & 1999, but instead prepare an even more powerful console of the PS2/GCN/Xbox1 generation, (codename 'Revelation') which would be fully back compatible with 'Exodus', and use an even more advanced PowerPC CPU + Real3D/ArtX designed (ATI) GPU.

[MASTERWEEDO]

the saturn shouldve been backwards compatible with the genesis, 32x and sega cd.

[Auzlander]

IMHO, there's a lot of things Sega should've done here.

In 1995, Sega should've kept going with the Genesis and the 32x (Sega CD was fine enough to cut support for, same with Pico and Game Gear) along with the Saturn, because everyone knows that the Genesis still had a good 2-3 years with it, especially with the 32x. The 32x could've basically acted as a counterpart to the Saturn for owners of the Genesis who didn't want to buy the Saturn. Instead, they cut off the Genesis and killed themselves when the Saturn tanked.

This quote says it all. Genesis could have gone allot further and in a few years be replaced by something different.