Three More Sega Classics Are Being Revived, It's Claimed

Still waiting for Phantasy Star to be on this list.

They should bring over the first Sakura Wars. Preferably without localization.

@Samalik Uh? You realize only, maybe a few hundred to a couple thousand people would play it outside of Japan if it was in Japanese only, because there are very few non-Japanese gamers who can read Japanese. I can to an extent, but I would certainly be frequently confused due to my, maybe 1st or 2nd grade level Japanese. And most people can't even understand the language at all...

@WiiWareWave localization=/=translation

Considering the ongoing localization fiascos online, I suspect this person wants a faithful translation, rather than say....Fire Emblem DS/3DS localization and such

Is that Forever Entertainment? They don’t exactly instill a sense of excitement if so

Man... Wish it was Nights Into Dreams though. ITS STILL VERY UNDERRATED TO ME DANG NABIT

@TheLX They literally said "preferably without localization" meaning it would be in Japanese. I agree English localization should be better in a lot of cases, but no English text or dubs would be a death nell for any game outside of Japan "especially a text-heavy JRPG like Sakura Wars" since virtually no one would be able to fully understand or enjoy the game.

Here’s to hoping that Billy Hatcher gets on this list.

@Synecdoche You read my mind.

@TheLX The solution is to learn Japanese then. Seriously. Stuff is going to be changed regardless. If one is really nitpicky about playing games "exactly as they were written" or whatever they are expecting, then they need to learn to read the game "exactly as it was written".
Then you can play every single Japanese game ever exactly as the writer intended.

Sakura wars is a treasure that must be preserved !

Sega should never have let their old IP lapse in the first place. So great to see them finally continuing something other than Sonic. Hopefully they’re great.

Virtua Tennis 🤞🏼

@KingMike right on the money. You can't 1 to 1 translate an entire work. Sometimes there are words that have a deeper connotation that doesn't directly translate over, etc. Localization is a part of every translation.

I think he meant no censorship.

"Revived" is a weird phrase to use for Sakura Wars. Didn't they JUST make a new one? Like I think its been longer since let's say, the last Star Fox, even if I include Starlink's DLC.

I also have to admit that the Panzer Dragoon remake did not make me interested in a new one. I'd not played a Panzer Dragoon before, so I'm not dismissing the series as a whole, but at the very least, if that remake was competent and faithful than the original Panzer Dragoon has more value as a time capsule than as a game to play nowadays. And if it wasn't, that doesn't make me think a new one will be handled with care.

@WiiWareWave You completely missed it.
Localization is not Translation. Translation is part of the localization process, but doesn't define its core purpose which is to make the work feel more "local", which is not what I want out of my blatantly Japanese games since some people can't keep their pet peeves and tryhard humor out of the outta their job.

Doesn't help that, at least with the example given with the current Crunchyroll fiasco, localizers don't even speak japanese!!!!

Would love to see Phantasy Star make a return to it's traditional roots as a single player game. It's long overdue

@kkslider5552000 Shin Sakura Wars wasn't exactly a legit SW game, since it was closer to a musou with familiar true dating elements.

I think by revive they are planning a classic tactical game.

Am I missing something? Since when Evangelion is considered a "Sega Classic"?

I'm always up for more Panzer Dragoon. Played the hell out of it on my Saturn and loved the remake. Still think Zwei is the best in the series so I hope it gets a remake.
An Evangelion game would be cool. Besides that I hope Alex Kidd and Altered Beast get new games.

@Itachi2099 Apparently, SEGA made the first 2 EVA games as Saturn exclusives.

@NinChocolate These would be in house published.

@KingMike @Arminillo there's layers to localisation, yeah some things won't directly translate, so you find a close alternative. The problem people are having with game and anime localisations are that the people working on them will just invent things of their own into the script.

See the character of Esty Erhard in the Atelier series, the localisation team decided to change her name to Esty Dee. Get it? Cause it sounds like STD? Sexually transmitted disease? That's funny right? Are you laughing yet? Please laugh.

The list of "revivals" needs more Shining Force, Skies of Arcadia, old-school, offline Phantasy Star, Dragon Force, and LandStalker.

The last Monkeyball was so bad I could hardly believe it. I hope if they revive it they use the original engine, and not just make more broken unity crap. Monkey Baseball was literally unplayable, and they say "Foal" instead of foul.

@Itachi2099 There's like three on dreamcast, five on saturn, (Including three exclusives which were developed and published by sega).

Sega can make good games, they just need to have the patience to let their projects nail the landing! They certainly don't lack the experience or developer talent, they just have a really terrible tendency to rush their projects straight to the grave before they even have the chance to be good, ESPECIALLY with sonic. it does worry me that they're tackling so many projects at once, but I don't want to call it over before we've gotten the chance to really see them in action. I mean hell, they could just be taking the Netflix approach of just throwing everything at the wall and see what sticks, and that didn't NOT work for Netflix! Overall, I'm just plain interested to see how everything plays out.

@AtlanteanMan A second for Landstalker. Absolutely epic game!

@Poodlestargenerica And you can't actually see the monkeys go swimming in Monkey Target. "I'm falling!"

Yes! Altered beast. One of my favorites (that i was never able to finish);game was really hard lol

Can't wait for Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

Oh, so I'm the only one.

Comix Zone, pretty please

Now i want Nintendo to the same.
I want Pilot Wings, Wave Race, Excitebike, 1080 snowboarding, F Zero and Punch out

@epicgamner I think a lot of this is being outsourced to smaller developers.
It’s a smart strategy to just release a bunch of old IP’s to see which ones still have some life in them. And giving smaller studios like Lizard Cube a chance to work on classics is a pretty good look for Sega.

That said, I can’t wait how they’ll try to capture the magic of Alex Kidd in Miracle world. I’m guessing they’ll ask the studio who did the remake.

I would love a new Altered Beast game.

@SleepyAnimal Third here! Loved it.

@JeongersGaming The Esty Dee thing isn't localisation though. That's just incredibly juvenile behaviour on the part of the translators, and honestly should've been reason for termination, and should've been changed.

Localisation is an annoying thingh though, especially in RPGs. Japanese conversations follow such a wildly different sociocultural pattern that it's simply not possible to just translate. Some RPGs become such a chore to slog through, and animés even moreso.

I noticed it the most in Legend of Heroes : Trails in the Sky.

Every other sentence was a variation of "That said" or "In other words", which apparentky is a very Japanese thing to do but we don't do that. So it becomes annoying to read. And Trails in the Sky wasn't very text-light to begin with, I simply couldn't go through it. I called it quits.

There you notice a large difference with, say, Square Enix games. They hardly have that. Strong localizers. Final Fantasy 12 was a great example in my opinion. The remaster of FF Tactics as well. It didn't only sound Western, it even sounded medievalish.

End rant.

Still waiting for one name to appear. One that hasn't been properly served since the amazing original. None of the sequels have been up to snuff as far as I've seen - and the latest effort is borderline cringe.

SPACE HARRIER.

"Insider Gamer"... the clickbait club doesn't even seem subtle about the names anymore.😅 And would "revival" be the right term for Sakura Taisen whose latest entry came out in 2019?

@JohnnyMind eh, it made for an amusingly eclectic setting in its own right, kinda like San Fransokyo, and the team seems to have treated the conversion challenges with relative care, ad-libbing "import cars" and whatnot where need arose. As for Phoenix, one might argue that his naming choice added another layer of symbolism, drawing a parallel between the proverbial bird's rebirth in the flame and the titular attorney (as well as his eventual partners) constantly climbing back up to triumph from the hairiest situations during the trials. As Nick himself lampshades in response to Athena's praise once: "hehe, just doing what I do best! (Which is flying by the seat of my pants)"

Didn't they already released a Panzer Dragoon and Sakura Taisen game already? Also who ask for an Evangelion game, we want Dragon Force, Skies of Arcadia or Panzer Dragon Saga, not an anime visual novel that wasn't even a Sega IP.

Come on, Virtua Fighter 6!!

Kid Chameleon!? Woot woot.

Shenmue 4 please

@Samalik you don't know what localization means

@Synecdoche Yes!

@Clyde_Radcliffe Don't worry that game will be out in 2042.

Skies of Arcadia. I truly miss my Dreamcast

Just because an older person like myself is still in video game design and programming doesn’t mean Sega has older programmers and designers with experience.

I’m going to sit back and wait. Nintendo always went forth with their characters, even if some take a decade break. Sega just left their stuff to rot, then re-released the same Genesis ROMs over and over and over . . .

Sincerely hope Forever Entertainment isn't doing this next Panzer Dragoon. Bought the remake on Switch when it launched, it was a buggy mess then and even after all the patches, it still feels like something is missing (on top of the atrocious loading times). Devs also don't know the difference between a remake and a remaster.

@Samalik @Poodlestargenerica The key word here is "classic". I have never heard of nor considered Evangelion (or any anime licensed game for that matter), to be given that adjective or deserve it. No one hears 'SEGA classics' and thinks of an anime-based game.

Anyway, my personal picks would be brand new games for Astal, Clockwork Knight, and Vectorman.

@Kanbei

A remastered Virtual Fighter collection would be great too.

All this talk of returning Sega franchises and two of the biggest get no mention, we need phantasy star 5 and shining force 4.

Skies of Arcadia or we riot!

@Samalik while “localization” and “translation” are two different words with two different meanings…. A translation is a form of localization.

Translation is just changing one language into another language. Localization is making something available to a local audience. One way to do that is by translating it. So no a localization is not a translation, but… on the other hand… a translation is very much a localization.

A localization can go beyond just translation, but it doesn’t have to. Translating the language for a local region is enough to be considered a localization.

All that said… the anime/gaming elitism is so corny and played out. Most of the media is considered low budget and has poor writing and acting in the original source material. The whole genre was developed because of a lack of funds to develop more complex media. There are plenty of times where heavy localization going beyond basic translation, has resulted in a better product.

“It has to be exactly true to the original source or else all these bad people have ruined everything”, is such a joke, and elitist nonsense. That is why we end up with so many boring translations over here with so much emotionless VA. All the direct translation media sounds exactly the same even the VAs sound the same across different genres of the media. When you directly translate something, despite trying to preserve it’s essence, you actually lose everything. There is no personality . You have to do more than direct translation to give media depth and meaning.

I swear every time I put on a video game or anime with a “faithful” translation and VA, it feels like AI made the media. It is lifeless. The same is not true for the source material, even if it is budget and cheap, it has charm and personality in the native release. Even with original bad Japanese VA it still has life and is fun. Same is true with deep localization, it has heart and life and personality. It feels fun an entertaining. Even the bad VA ones, still bring charm and warmth.

The “faithful” translations just can’t do that. In fact I have never even heard a “faithful” translation with good VA… because you can’t VA locally, naturally, without changing the dialog to feel natural to the local region. “Faithful” translations are bad and will forever be bad. The dialog is bad and forever will be bad. The VA is bad and forever will be bad. Unnatural dialog is the Hallmark of bad writing and unnatural dialog is impossible to salvage in VA. Its not the VAs faults that this media is so bad these days, its the elitism that absolutely ruins this media, trying to cling to purity ruins the message. It ruins enjoyment. It results in robotic nonsense.

Phantasy Star my love...where are you...

I'm happy to see Altered Beast and Panzer Dragoon there. But where is Ecco?

My question is how is the quality control gonna be on these games? Pumping out this many games in the next couple years sounds kinda worrying to me

I would love to believe that new Sakura Taisen and Evangelion games would come west… and be good… but I don’t know if I have that much faith…

Fingers crossed for Billy Hatcher and Fantasy Zone.

@JeongersGaming Oh my god that is one of the worst changes to a script I ever seen in my life. @JohnnyMind honestly what I think is a good localization is in the 2nd Pokémon movie in regards to its prophecy. In the original movie it simply says that a strong trainer will save the world. In the localization the prophecy instead says “the world will turn to ash” making a very clever double meaning. Though if you ask me I would say that they should have 2 translations. One being a faithful translation with all the Japanese wordplay in it while having translator notes explaining them. while another one having all the woolseyism’s in it (and I don’t mean inserting political garbage in it I mean adding in actually good changes) @Freek no your not the only one.

No love for Shining Force. 😭

@DestructoDisk interesting fact but apparently are there companies thinking of using AI to translate manga and stuff and fans are celebrating since it means that localizer’s that insert their politics (apparently) will be out of a job and we will get faithful translations again. I got this off a YouTube channel named rev says desu so I don’t know if this is right I just thought you want to know this.

Burning Rangers please! And yes i know that the source code has been lost, but Panzer Dragoon Saga needs a remake!

@Emmerichcoal Unfortunately not from Sega, but I've always gone to bat for it. It's a travesty that most gamers' experience with the franchise is limited to just the Genesis installments, because Shining Force III for the Saturn was one of the grandest and most ambitious SRPGs I've ever played, with an epic 190-plus-hour storyline spread across three interlocking Scenarios (each on its own disc; however, Sega only brought the first to the West and left us with a permanent cliffhanger). I got to play through all three thanks to an English mod that was literally decades in development and can tell you it was way ahead of its time, just an incredible ride.

While I doubt it will ever happen, a remake of Panzer Dragoon Saga would give gamers the opportunity to experience one of the most ambitious RPGs of the CD era. Spread across four CDs, its world conveyed a sense of bleakness and dying hope that overcame the Saturn's first-gen polygon visual limitations. One example I'll never forget is an NPC who is rebuilding an ancient aircraft when you meet him and dreaming of flying it. Toward the end of the game when you visit the town, another villager tells you he was killed after taking it up for a test flight and crashing.

Sadly, Sega only released 3000 copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the entire North American market (and only bothered to use generic paper sleeves to house the discs inside the case). They really have always been a Japan market first company, but boy did they ever treat Western gamers like trash sometimes, especially when it came to their RPGs.

Sub-Terrania and Comix Zone could be amazing.

Dang, it's like Wade Rosen is their CEO.

@DestructoDisk Localization is a profession for failed writers.

@Porky Ah, so a step above the machine learning robots that do direct translation.

Proper, new Shining Force and Phantasy Star games!

Okay, but where is NiGHTS? I've never played it, but that's the one Sega franchise I've always been curious about.

@Synecdoche was literally about to say the same thing

@SleepyAnimal @AtlanteanMan
Landstalker isn’t a Sega title, they just published the first game. The sequel was released on the SNES.

As for Panzer Dragoon Saga, the team that made it infamously lost the source code for the game. There were rumblings a year or so ago though that it may have been found. Fingers crossed as more people need to play it.

@DestructoDisk Nah, I'd rather listen to Google translated Text-To-Speech robot voices say what the ACTUAL creators wrote, than hear localizers replace with corny flowery word bloat, rewrite dialogue that fits in their worldviews, and turn everything into Gen Z/modern slang.

@LafayetteBlues 🤷‍♀️ Who knew? First game was developed by a Sega development team and it's on the Sega-released Genesis collection for the Switch, so that's good enough to hold out some hope for some more isometric dungeony fun, for me at least.

This is not even a real gripe - but my gamer actually brain is going off!

I don’t think Sega gets to go around grouping Streets of Rage i with these series for revivals. Streets 4 is a very popular and modern game. If anything the new Streets of Rage Project is going to Tropical Freeze the Return

OutRun... one day hopefully, 2006 is a way back now.

Great news, hopefully there will be plenty more. Outrun, Galaxy force, Super Hang on, Scud racer, Daytona, Sega rally. Would be amazing to see these titles brought back to life. Hopefully Panzer dragoon Zwei will get the conversion treatment absolute brilliant game. Panzer dragoon orta was pretty damn good as well.

@Porky I am not into translations that try to mold a political agenda and I'm too old to know what modern slang is. However most of the people employed in localization are much older than Gen Z. There is lots of bad localization and there is lots of good localization. Most of the dialog from the original Japanese source is corny as well... and OMG way beyond "flowery word bloat". I am sure most can at least read subs to see how ridiculous the original Japanese is and how over embellished and unrealistic it is. This is one of the main complaints about foreigners who speak "Japanese" and visit Japan... they learned to speak from anime and video games, and the Japanese used in that media is ridiculous. It becomes even more ridiculous when it is spoken out loud in local languages. Speech does not translate at all across languages and cultures. It will never fit in and not sound ridiculous when directly translated. While many localizations are awful, not all of them are... the same can't be said for direct translation dubs, every single one is terrible and robotic and there is no fixing it no matter who does it. Language and culture are intertwined. Change the language and you have automatically changed the meaning and tone. Direct translation is the opposite of preservation. In depth localization allows you to keep the spirit and tone and have everything flow and be natural.

If you speak another language I am sure you already know this. You can directly translate a sentence or paragraph from one language to another and it makes perfect sense, and all the exact words are preserved... but if you were to actually communicate with another person, you wouldn't use that translation in speech or in messaging another person... you would say the dialog in a completely different way, because the translated dialog is unnatural and doesn't fit. Where, how, and what type of joke you would tell in a certain situation would completely change based on culture and language. Speaking in direct translation is incorrect. Any language expert will tell you that. You lose meaning and tone when translating directly. Characters lose personality in media with direct translation.. which is why dubs that use direct translation are so dry and sterile and unrealistic, while that same dialog in Japanese is now. Why would anyone want to watch media where people are speaking incorrectly? I can't understand it, other than preserving the elitism that has been around the western anime scene for decades.

What about a certain shooting star with stretchy arms?

While I'm excited and hope whatever games do eventually come out turn out great, I feel that Sega should focus more on making their classic games available to purchase on modern consoles. And not only Genesis/MD games... There are so many Arcade, Saturn, Dreamcast, Sega CD, Master System and Game Gear games that are still only available on those consoles.

I love the Sega Ages line on the Switch. But I think the games didn't sell as well as they hoped. They should at least do more complications like the Genesis/MD one and Sonic Origins.

Sakura Wars would be awesome. I still want an HD remake of So Long, My Love. I played the heck outta that one on Wii!

I still wanna hear about another Vectorman, though.

And I know this is an EA thing, but I want a trilogy collection of the first three Road Rash games.

@DestructoDisk You're taking a shot in the dark at me and others. I don't listen to american VAs in most of my japanese games. You're overblowing what people mean by "literal translation". They want the work to reflect the author's intent. If that's gonna be boring to you, despite all of the character and personality that is clear to understand even with direct translation, then the author's work wasn't meant for you. If the work in question is "unrealistic" then let it be bloody unrealistic. It's stylized. It's theatrical. Let it be. I'll watch a drama like Midnight Diner if I want something to seem more real world.

I, however, want localisors to keep themselves out of it. Or if they're so concerned that most people won't understand something, have a word glossary that can be pulled up on a highlighted word, like what Clannad did. But unfortunately, given the Crunchyroll allegations right now, most don't even do that. They do worse than machine AI.

@gojiguy And you do?

Phantasy Star
Skies of Arcadia
NiGHTS

This is all that interests me.

I just want virtua fighter 6.

@Serpenterror couldn't agree more.

@DestructoDisk 100% about anime elitism. It's hilarious. It's like, OMG WE GET IT! You love studio Ghibli and everything is inspired by it, jeeeeez.
...lol

@Not_Soos it's visually interesting and strange enough to play or watch the first game, but just barely. Way over hyped. I guess if you go into it knowing it is basically a score attack...

All I want Sega to do is port Skies of Arcadia to any modern platform and try to make good Sonic games, everything else is cream

Sonic heroes and sonic adventure 2 battle 👌🏼

@SleepyAnimal It actually wasn’t made by Sega, but Climax. They also developed the first couple of Shining games (or at least a couple of the early ones) before Camelot took over.
I agree with you on wanting more, just don’t think Sega would be the ones to do it.

Still hoping this leads to a new sonic all stars racing game

I could not agree more....bring back the original Phantasy Star. Such a great game!

@LikelySatan Ah, I see. Well, that's unfortunate--I'm really not much of a fan of "score attack" games. WarioWare is pretty much the only exception, but I don't even care for the arcade-y gameplay of Star Fox. The surreal visuals and interesting character design are what always made me curious about NiGHTS. I'd still like to try it at least once, but yeah, what you describe doesn't really sound like my cup of tea.

@Not_Soos I still think it's an amazingly cool looking game. It came out less than a month after Mario 64 did, and you CAN explore when you lose powers and become one of the dreamers, but it is mostly a linear score attack. All of that just makes the game much more confusing. If you approach it like an arcade game, it works. I just don't think a lot of people got that from the jump.

@LikelySatan Didn't the game also have seasonal content? Like if you played during the Holidays, there was a special Christmas level and your character would wear a Santa hat or something? Or maybe that was a later game on the Dreamcast or something. Either way though, I remember seeing something about that years ago and thinking it was such a novel concept at the time--back before every game was online and had limited-time, seasonal cosmetics. In that respect, it was incredibly far ahead of its time... unless I'm completely mistaken, lol. I don't know much at all about Sega consoles and the games that were on them.

@Not_Soos kind of. It had a Christmas Nights expansion that came in some magazines and a Saturn bundle. It was a single level from the main game that had visual elements change based on the Saturn's clock. The hd rerelease has that content, but the base Nights Into Dreams game does not. PSO on DC had a bunch of seasonal content, so maybe you are thinking of that, too?

I know a lot of SEGA Fans may or may not remember this Lost and Forgotten Sega Title but I think it's time for ILLBLEED to make a Revival from the SEGA Graveyard

@EmeraldNinja4 that wasn’t a SEGA game. I’m sure it was developed and published by Climax Graphics aka Crazy Games.

@Samalik NISA wanted publish Sakura Wars 1+2 on PSP in West, but Sony banned localization (censorship).

@WiiWareWave Sakura Wars is not jrpg, it's Visual Novel , Dating Sim, tactical SRPG hybrid, but more fiting name for those kind of games is ,,interactive anime''. It's similar to Valkyria Chronicles (older Sakura Wars games were developed by same dev team), but VC is more focused on gameplay and have traditional RPG elements like leveling up, buying new equipment, customization, grind etc. Sakura Wars is more focused on VN and Dating Sim stuff, gameplay is pretty simple and is small part of those games. The battle system from VC (BLiTZ) is improved version of ARMS from Sakura Wars 3-5.

As much as I would love to see them all happen, the only way we would likely ever get most of the games or IPs mentioned on this thread would be if Sega decided to take another crack at a console, sadly. They've "turtled" around "safe" franchises like Sonic since they went third-party two decades ago, and even before then they were always a Japan market-first corporation that tended to ignore Western gamers. Most of their legacy IPs that have seen a release over the past several years have been outsourced to third-parties and/or been of middling quality; the outstanding quality, variety, and risk-taking of the Sega of old seems long, LONG gone.

I would sure love for them to prove me wrong and truly start listening to their fans who've been clamoring for these franchises, though. I honestly believe they don't realize the potential goldmine they're sitting on, waiting to be embraced by entirely new generations of players.

I'd like to see a port of Planet Harriers, finally

@Sejman22 What the..... WHAT?! Holy crap that was a miss. And yet they still allowed DoA Paradise.....

Outrun yes please!
In the same style as outrun 2 tho!

'Skies of Arcadia HD' when?

Outrun coast to coast, Daytona and Sega Rally please!

@Samalik When NISA tryed localize Sakura Wars 1+2 on PSP, Sony told them: ,,this is not real game, this is text game''. Sega also planned localize Dreamcast versions of Sakura Wars 1+2 (by Working Design, dudes who localized Magic Knight Rayearth on Sega Saturn in NA), and later PS2 remake of first game, but ,,Sakura Wars World Project'' was cancelled probably due to poor financial situation of Sega at that time.

@Sejman22 and even that's stupid since they released 100s of visual novels on the thing in japan. Even Disgaea infinate, a VN retelling of the first game, got a western release. Wtf?!?!

Sega, it’s long overdue and time for a new:

• Sonic Adventure
• Skies of Arcadia
• Jet Grind Radio
• Crazy Taxi
• Phantasy Star (Offline)
• Billy Hatcher
• Vanquish
• Binary Domain
• Virtual-On
• Virtua Tennis
• Sega Soccer Slam
• Catherine
• Trauma Center
  etc. please & thank you.

@Samalik
Disgaea Infinte was released in West, because Sony loosened the censorship of this type of games a bit after 2008 (after the success of Ace Attorney on DS and Wii), because the PS2 and PSP were practically dead in the West and they didn't cared anymore, just like later they did with PS Vita. Thats's why So Long My Love was allowed to be released on PS2 after 2008 (NISA announced localization of SW5 in 2008, game was released in West in 2010, like Disgaea Infinite), but Sakura Wars 1+2 on PSP in 2006 not. Before 2008, almost all Playstation Visual Novel games never left Japan, especially Dating Sims. Nintendo was much more open with publishing VN games in West than Playstation (well still is).

@AtlanteanMan It does sound kind of amazing they localized it at all, though. Can't say how many they SHOULD have expected to sell, but by 1998 the Saturn had been beaten up really badly in US sales.
Of course any game so well-regarded should be made available to a wider audience but I have to wonder just how widespread the sales exceptions could have been.
How likely were retailers wanting to stock Saturn games in 1998? I heard this and the last couple games Sega made were only available by ordering directly from Sega over the phone.
The report of only 2000 copies of Sega CD Snatcher does sound suspiciously low. Was it even worthwhile for Konami to go through with the cost of localizing, ordering and distributing discs if they anticipated so few would sell?