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The Sega Saturn is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles , it is the successor to the successful Genesis .
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Development
Sega approached both Sony and Silicon Graphics about collaborating on console hardware, but these deals fell through. Both companies would market consoles that would prove to be significant competitors to the Saturn. Sony would launch the original Playstation and Silicon Graphics became a key technology partner with Nintendo during the development of the Nintendo 64. The Sega Saturn was initially focused on 2D games, but fearing competition from Sony's Playstation, Sega engineer Hideki Sato d...
Launch
The Sega Saturn was launched in Japan in November of 1994 at a cost of 44,800 yen. The Sega Saturn was launched in the USA four months earlier then initially planned when a surprise E3 1995 announcement was made that the Saturn would be released that weekend at a price of $399, which caused Sega to take a $100 loss on each Saturn sold.The surprise launch damaged relations with 3rd party developers and retailers. Sega had a hard time attracting 3rd party developers in part because the Saturn v...
Legacy
The Sega Saturn was discontinued in 1998. The system sold less than 10 million units, but has a cult following. The Saturn was followed by the Dreamcast. Following the failure of the Saturn, Ken Kutaragi of Sony would boast to Saturn designer Hideki Sato of the vertical integration advantage Sony had over Sega, and urged them to become a software focused developer, which Sega eventually did following the inability of the Dreamcast to gain marketshare. By 2020 the Sega Saturn was known as a di...
Compute
The Sega Saturn has two Hitachi 32-bit SH-2 processors clocked at 28.63 megahertz with 4 kilobytes of cache memory. The Sega Saturn has 2MB of RAM, split into one megabyte of SDRAM, and one megabyte of slower DRAM.The Saturn also has 1.5 megabytes of VRAM. The Saturn uses two custom GPUs, the VDP1 and the VDP2.
Hardware
Audio was handled by the Saturn Custom Sound Processor, the Yamaha YMF292.
Development Hardware
A special development model, Sega Saturn Address Checker, was used by developers to verify memory usage compliance.Early revisions of this hardware is notable for it's length, at approximately 3 feet (0.91 m) long.
Consoles
1. Sega Saturn Mark 1 2. Sega Saturn Mark 1 3. Sega Saturn Mark 1 4. Sega Saturn Mark 1 5. Sega Saturn Mark 1 6. Sega Saturn Mark 1 7. Sega Saturn Mark 1 8. Sega Saturn US Mark 2 9. Sega Saturn US Mark 2 10. Sega Saturn US Mark 2 V1 11. Sega Saturn US Mark 2 V2 12. Victor JX2 13. Victor JX2 14. Victor JX2 15. Victor JX2
Controllers & Accessories
1. Japanese Mark 2 controller 2. Sega Saturn 3D Control Pad 3. Japanese Sega Saturn 3D Pad 4. US Sega Saturn Mouse 5. Sega Saturn Multitap 6. Sega Saturn 7. GameShark 8. Composite cables 9. S video cables 10. Net Link 11. Installed Net Link Modem 12. Sega Saturn Net Link PS/2 keyboard adapter. 13. Sega Net Link keyboard. 14. Sega Saturn extended RAM cartridge
Internals
1. Mark 1 internals 2. Mark 1 internals 3. Mark 1 internals 4. Mark 1 internals 5. Mark 1 power supply 6. Mark 1 power supply 7. Mark 1 laser assembly 8. Mark 1 laser assembly 9. Mark 2 V1 internals 10. Mark 2 V1 internals 11. Mark 2 V1 internals 12. Mark 2 V1 internals 13. Mark 2 V2 internals 14. Mark 2 V2 internals 15. Mark 2 V2 internals 16. Mark 2 V2 internals 17. A US Sega Saturn Motherboard 18. A US Sega Saturn Motherboard 19. A US Sega Saturn Motherboard 20. A US Sega Saturn Motherboar...
The Sega Saturn [a] is a 32-bit video game console made by Sega. It was released in Japan on November 22 1994, in the United States on May 11 1995, and in Europe on July 8 1995. Games were released on CD-ROMs. It is followed by the Dreamcast.
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Video game console. Manufacturer (s) Sega. Tectoy (BR) Samsung (KOR) Hitachi. JVC. First available. JP 22 November 1994 [4] [5] NA 11 May 1995 [6] EU 8 July 1995 [7] Launch price. ¥44800 [1] (JP) $399 [2] (USA) £399 [3] (UK) Discontinued. 2000. Units sold. 9.26 million (as of 1999) Technical information. CPU. Two Hitachi SH-2 28.6MHz. RAM. 2MB RAM.
The Sega Saturn (セガサターン, Sega Satān?) is a fifth generation video game console, that was originally released on November 22nd, 1994. The console was built using a 32-bit hardware architecture, with the initial intent to excel at rendering two dimensional sprites, however this was changed to favor rendering of three-dimensional polygons due to the potential for steep competition ...
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