Sega boss Hayao Nakayama angrily berated Sega's engineers for theirįailings, but it was too late to totally redesign the system if theġ994 launch was too proceed. PlayStation was totally committed to polygons. Ultimate 2D arcade machine, albeit with a substantial 3D capability, While the Saturn had been designed as perhaps the
PlayStation, a system which would heavily defeat Sega's system andīecome a considerable influence on how Sega designed Dreamcast.Īlthough there had been rumours of Sony producing a console, what cameĪs a heavy shock to Sega was the technical superiority of the
Generation system heavily delayed - due to the collapse of anĪlliance with Sony - and neither Atari nor 3DO seriously threateningĪll that changed with the November '93 announcement of the Sony Its precursor, the 32bit Sega Saturn, had been widelyĮxpected to conquer the world with Nintendo's own second next Machine which will decide whether the company stays in the hardwareīusiness. ''A do-or-die machine which will decide whether Sega stays in theĭreamcast is a system born out of Sega's darkest hour, a do-or-die If Lockheed Martin had desired to enter the consumer market in a big way (nevermind the i740), They would've been a force to be respected. The Real3D/100 chipset could've been reduced into a single chip, much like PS1's CPU+GTE or better yet, the 3DO M2's Bulldog ASIC.
Note that the Real3D/100 graphics card is not to be confused with the high-end Real3D/Pro-1000 GPUs used in Sega's Model 3 arcade board. (not in place of Dreamcast, it's not of that class) or as a Saturn upgrade cart for Model 2 ports and downscaled Model 3 conversions. 'Saturn 2' could've been a new console instead of Saturn or a quick replacement I wanted to discuss the never-released 'Saturn 2' that was supposed to have been developed with Lockheed Martin Real3D technology.įrom Next Generation November 1995 (sister magazine of EDGE):
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