I heard this once back in the day, but thought it was a rumor.
It was in EGM in the mid 90s.I thought this was a april fool joke, ive owned every console since the nes, and even drove for 2hrs after work to get a saturn from only shop that had one on day of release, but cant ever remember reading a article on this
Of course I would’ve loved to see how this turned out and what kind of games we got… but man this just sounds like a horrible idea in practice. Sounds like it’s just a brand new, incompatible system that uses the old Saturn as I/O.
Sega’s “vision” (or lack thereof) for hardware seems to be to just spam the market with tons of upgrades and new hardware. Like, release base console, release some upgrades for base console, release a mid-gen refresh that combines all them in one, then maybe release a next gen console that’s something completely different.
Not sure what the video was talking about, but that wasn't it. It was closer to an upgrade cart than a whole new system. It was going to plug either into the expansion port on the back of the system or the cart slot. Would've made the system about 50% of Model 3 and had a pretty decent VF3 port ready for launch.
Hard to find lots of info about this but apparently 64x was going to have its own GPU and possibly its own CPU as well https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/...at-never-happened-and-some-quot-what-ifs-quotNot sure what the video was talking about, but that wasn't it. It was closer to an upgrade cart than a whole new system. It was going to plug either into the expansion port on the back of the system or the cart slot. Would've made the system about 50% of Model 3 and had a pretty decent VF3 port ready for launch.
Yeah, the video mentioned it would've been included with VF3 for like $90 US for the package. Honestly doesn't seem like too bad a deal when you look at the prices for some of the N64 games at the time.
The Dreamcast was only marginally more powerful than Model 3 Step 1, and actually less powerful than the other Steps. I have a hard time believing half a Dreamcast would be released as an add-on to the Saturn in 1996 or 1997. And if it did, certainly not for any reasonable price.Not sure what the video was talking about, but that wasn't it. It was closer to an upgrade cart than a whole new system. It was going to plug either into the expansion port on the back of the system or the cart slot. Would've made the system about 50% of Model 3 and had a pretty decent VF3 port ready for launch.
The Dreamcast was only marginally more powerful than Model 3 Step 1, and actually less powerful than the other Steps. I have a hard time believing half a Dreamcast would be released as an add-on to the Saturn in 1996 or 1997. And if it did, certainly not for any reasonable price.
I mean I get that, but the Model 3 was the pinnacle of gaming graphics, even well above PC, for years, and a cabinet cost tens of thousands of dollars or something ridiculous like that. It isn't something that was getting shoved into the expansion port of a Saturn.This was a Sega of America project, much like Blackbelt. Dreamcast (Katana) was Sega of Japan. SoA was aiming a bit higher.
It's Top Hat Gaming Mans wife, she's just presenting on her own channel to double dip on the Patreon subs. Classic Youtuber grift.Lady is cracking me up, never seen her videos until now.
I loved the Sega addons back then and I still do even though they were all pretty awful, it was like magic getting the Genesis to play CDs. I’d have probably been all over the 64X had it come out.
SEGA would have still SEGA'ed this all up because they're SEGA, would have been interesting for Saturn players to have that level of performance at the time though.If they really could have delivered it for a sub $50 price tag there might have actually been some good potential there but I just don't see how that could have been possible.
so many mistakes made by sega after the successfull genesis/megadrive
I mean look, at no price point could this have radically turned the tide of the generation, but what I mean is that at that price it probably would have gotten decent support and we would have seen some superior ports on Saturn hardware compared to the other systems and maybe given it the shot in the arm it needed to stay on shelves until Dreamcast arrived.SEGA would have still SEGA'ed this all up because they're SEGA, but if there was any way of having a "PlayStation 64" plugin or a PlayStation Pro that somehow added in the newer visual technologies like z-buffer and floating point operation (which I don't think is a real thing that could have happened, but we're just dreaming here,) that would have been an amazing fork in the gaming history time continuum to experience...
Maybe thats why im from uk and egm magazine wasnt really available over here, dont think any uk mag ran the story about itIt was in EGM in the mid 90s.
I didn't watch the video, but this has most of the information:
a SEGA "64X" upgrade for Saturn that never happened and some "what ifs" - Retrogaming Roundtable
The Sega "64X" almost happened. It would've been a Saturn upgrade cartridge/card for either the cartridge slot or the port at the back. The upgrade was supposed to contain a Lockheed-Martin Real3D GPU and possibly a PowerPC CPU, giving the Saturn better-than-MODEL 2-arcade capabilities, even a...forum.digitpress.com
It was, you could buy it and Gamepro In WH Smith's and Menzies.Maybe thats why im from uk and egm magazine wasnt really available over here, dont think any uk mag ran the story about it
It blocks the CD tray, I think it was an April Fools joke?
This is just the Saturn 3D accelerator cart that was covered in both Edge and the official Saturn magazine. Calling it 64x after a Famitsu joke article is just clickbait.
It's Top Hat Gaming Mans wife, she's just presenting on her own channel to double dip on the Patreon subs. Classic Youtuber grift.
To think there is some alternate universe out there where PlayStation polygon textures didn't wobble.SEGA would have still SEGA'ed this all up because they're SEGA, would have been interesting for Saturn players to have that level of performance at the time though.
Flip-side, if there was any way of having a "PlayStation 64" plugin or a "PlayStation Pro" midgen console like this that somehow added in the newer visual technologies like z-buffer and floating point operation (which I don't think is a real thing that could have happened, but we're just dreaming here,) that would have been an amazing fork in the gaming history time continuum to experience...
so many mistakes made by sega after the successfull genesis/megadrive
It would be crazy too see what a stable Sega could have done
Of course I would’ve loved to see how this turned out and what kind of games we got… but man this just sounds like a horrible idea in practice. Sounds like it’s just a brand new, incompatible system that uses the old Saturn as I/O.
Sega’s “vision” (or lack thereof) for hardware seems to be to just spam the market with tons of upgrades and new hardware. Like, release base console, release some upgrades for base console, release a mid-gen refresh that combines all them in one, then maybe release a next gen console that’s something completely different.
Neptune was the standalone 32X.What was it, the Neptune?
Whichever prototype was supposed to be Saturn CD's with MegaDrive cartridge port in the back. That should have been the way forward, cut the SegaCD and 32X off at the knees and play to your strengths.
Autocue reading deep nerd shit. Like a prostitute pretending to have a good time on the job.Why does she look tense and disgusted? Relax and smile a bit.
Which was due to leadership in the west. The mega drive wasn’t nearly as popular in Japan. The team in Japan hated the US team so much they actively hindered them at every turn.so many mistakes made by sega after the successfull genesis/megadrive
The team in Japan hated the US team so much they actively hindered them at every turn.
They were never stable, I mean look at all this.
At one point they wanted to launch something to combat the Atari Jaguar,
Man I really wanted that combined SegaCD/Genesis back in the day (the one that looks like a DiscMan, forget what it was called).They were never stable, I mean look at all this.