The war of consoles

The war of consoles

Japanese market the Sega Saturn, a 32-bit machine that, with its star title Virtua Fighter -one of the first fighting games to use polygonal 3D technology- was a relative success. However, a few days later Sony was introduced to the video game console market with its PlayStation, a machine that presented its Ridge Racer to compete with Virtua Fighter.

 

 

At the end of 1995 Sega maintained in its catalog a total of seven incompatible systems (Sega Saturn, Megadrive, Game Gear, Sega Pico, Sega CD, Sega 32X and Sega 32XCD), forcing the company to abandon its oldest platforms to concentrate on the Saturn. Theoretically Sega's machine was more powerful than its Sony rival, but the truth is that the Saturn chips were of inferior quality, which, along with some rumors about the difficulties that programmers found to develop video games for the system , made the tastes of the public to the PlayStation. Nintendo, meanwhile, had presented its new Nintendo 64 console on June 23, 1996.