It had two CPUs plus six additional processors. The Saturn gaming system boasted impressive hardware for its time, but the design proved to be a big inconvenience for developers that were used to the programming standards of that day. In 2009, IGN chose the Sega Saturn as the 18th of the best 25 video game console of all time (at that time.) Even though it was popular in Japan, the Sega Saturn didn’t do so great in either North America nor Europe due to strong competition from the Sony PlayStation and then the Nintendo 64. There were an estimated 2 million sold in the United States, and an estimated 6 million sold in Japan.
Sega sold 9.5 million Saturn units worldwide. SEGA discontinued the Saturn in North America and Europe in ’98, and then they discontinued it in the year 2000 in Japan. It was a 32-bit console released in November of 1994 to Japan, to North America in May of ’95, and to Europe in July of 1995. The Sega Saturn is SEGA’s 5th generation gaming system.
