Sega fucked the Saturn up by not having a new Sonic game for it. Both the SNES and N64 pretty much just had Mario at launch and kicked ass.
Long run though the retarded power struggle between the Jap and US branch would have probably fucked them.
On the subject of next gen though, pretty sad this will probably be the gen where physical media dies.
You know, I don't think physical media will ever die, or not at least in our lifetimes. I know a lot of us had a "It still takes discs! PHEW!" moment with the unveilings of the XBSX and the PS5, but at the top of the last gen, I had the same feeling, and it seemed even more in jeopardy with Microsoft pulling all that DRM bullshit with the Xbone, which seemed to be so unappealing, they lost their shot at the console war for this entire generation. Discs were to be hardlocked to your console, unable to ever be resold, and the system had to hit the internet at least once every 24 hours to be usable at all.
Compare that with the modern day, where the XBSX plays everything the Xbox One can, plus whatever they added to the backwards compatibility program, discs included.
And also Sony has some kind of big stake in disc production, I don't know the details.
Regardless, if there was gonna be a crossover generation where discs die, last gen would have been the right one. But consoles aren't designed for the tech savvy, they're designed for people who want to plug two wires into their machine and have it play their games, the ones they can pick up at Walmart alongside all their cool guy shit like hammers and motor oil, or whatever normal people buy. Ffs, music has been out of the hard copy game for such a long time that its come full circle and now vinyls with streaming codes are the name of the game, so that you'll have both a hard copy, and a code so you can actually listen to what you bought.
A fan of hard copies is born every time a streaming service removes a show you were watching halfway through, or an app you bought suddenly stops working because the OS no longer supports it and you can't get a refund. Consoomers may not mind because they're vapid trendwhores who care more about being seen talking about the latest thing rather than actually enjoying it, but for everyone else with more braincells than
@BoxerShorts47, it's pretty shitty to just wake up and see your shit gone because someone decided it was time for it to go. And entertainment is like the one thing where that's possible, it's not like Black & Decker is gonna come kick my ass and take my drill away if I dare use it to construct a giant letter N to put alongside the freeway.
