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>>5070164
>If we're talking about the West, you're right that Snatcher wasn't widely accepted, but it really had no chance since it was a 1994 Sega CD release. Jeremy Blaustein, the localization lead, said that Snatcher only sold "a couple of thousand" copies in the US and Canada.


Yeah, Konami decided to localise Snatcher for the Sega CD because the TurboGrafx 16 was dead in the west. They couldn't release the PCE CDROM version in the west, because there was no market for that console in 1994.

Apparently Kojima had no idea that Snatcher was even ported to the Sega CD and released in western territories. The Sega CD/ Mega CD port was made without Kojima. Kojima was apparently surprised when someone brought a copy of the Sega CD version for him to autograph because he never saw it before. He was flipping through the manual and shocked that Snatcher made it to the west.

But Snatcher on the Sega CD was never released in Japan, because the Mega CD in Japan was a failure for Sega. There as no real market there, and the PCE CD-ROM was still being sold in that region at the time.

Pollicenauts was planned to be released for the Sega Saturn in western territories in October of 1996. But I guess Konami decided that it wasn't worth the money to localise it.

This flyer image I included was actually packaged with the North American Sega Saturn in 1996, and even Sega advertised that Policenauts would be coming to the console. They had a mock up image of the NA box art.

>>5070164
>If we're talking about the West, you're right that Snatcher wasn't widely accepted, but it really had no chance since it was a 1994 Sega CD release. Jeremy Blaustein, the localization lead, said that Snatcher only sold "a couple of thousand" copies in the US and Canada.


Yeah, Konami decided to localise Snatcher for the Sega CD because the TurboGrafx 16 was dead in the west. They couldn't release the PCE CDROM version in the west, because there was no market for that console in 1994.

Apparently Konami had no idea that Snatcher was even ported to the Sega CD and released in western territories. The Sega CD/ Mega CD port was made without Kojima. Kojima was apparently surprised when someone brought a copy of the Sega CD version for him to autograph because he never saw it before. He was flipping through the manual and shocked that Snatcher made it to the west.

But Snatcher on the Sega CD was never released in Japan, because the Mega CD in Japan was a failure for Sega. There as no real market there, and the PCE CD-ROM was still being sold in that region at the time.

Pollicenauts was planned to be released for the Sega Saturn in western territories in October of 1996. But I guess Konami decided that it wasn't worth the money to localise it.

This flyer image I included was actually packaged with the North American Sega Saturn in 1996, and even Sega advertised that Policenauts would be coming to the console. They had a mock up image of the NA box art.