N64 vs PS1 vs Saturn

@ulfrinn: n64 was hard to develop for as well and had bottlenecks.

Saturn has a phenomenal library that deserves to be in the discussion

Even Saturn fanboys can admit that Playstation was the better console between the two, as long as they're objective.

@SOedipus:

I am a PlayStation fanboy... not a hardcore one as I went ps1-ps2- Xbox 360 (against my fathers advice who knew better but I still had a good time with it). Then I got a ps3 for the last of us after getting a job.

Anyways my brothers had the GameCube SNES n64 they were all great libraries. I rember first getting game informer and wishing Resident Evil 4 would get ported to the ps2 (I was so happy when it did and got it for christmas but I digress).

I never heard of or saw a Sega Saturn. I live in a big city too. I did see Dreamcast and genesis though. Now if you argue overall library the ps1 decimated the competition. But n64 and Saturn beat ps1 in genres.

Imo ps1 >Saturn > n64 but that is not to say n64 was bad but that generation was the best imo followed closely by ps2/Xbox/gc gen

I am biased towards RPGs, beat em ups, action adventure games, and platformers

I do have a Saturn I got from 2017 and I hate to jinx myself but it runs fine. Both the ps1s I bought off eBay (I still have my ps2 but I sold my ps1 like an idiot to upgrade) don’t run. I have had better luck with used saturns than n64s which may just be me being unlucky since n64 is a cart system. So imo Saturn wins in build quality. My original ps1 used to scratch the shit out of my discs I remember too

Saturn was great very underrated system N64 was for multiplayer and PS1 had everything and was most played for me.

Sony did a lot to choke out the Sega as the "other" gaming console beside Nintendo. Honestly, I never even considered the Sega because the first console of that generation I bought as the N64, and no regrets. The next one my family got, we wanted something that was more than mostly kids game, and got the PS1.

It's a hard toss up in which console was "best." N64 has Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Smash Brothers, and Mario Kart. PS1 had games like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre. It's almost impossible to pick which had the best games. I will say this though, analog sticks aside the Saturn had the best controller (the type 2). Had that released first in the US and not the big, clunky, cheap plastic looking thing we got, maybe Sega would have done a little better. But looking through a list of Saturn games, besides Shining Force III I cannot find anything that i'd ever care to play.

Ps1

N64

Saturn

I did love the Saturn just didn't own one for long enough.

The Saturn is what killed Sega.