I have some doubts concerning the total sum of games of both these systems. That is, the overall number of games available in both their libraries, all regions combined. I found an inconsistency in what Wikipedia states and what Guardiana states. The former claims that Dreamcast has "more than 325 official games available in its library". The latter stands about Dreamcast having a total 688 games, which is a pretty big difference. Which one is right? Guardiana is a database and it should be an accurate one, since it's also a collectors website. That's why I would trust better their numbers. But still, I don't understand where is Wikipedia taking their sources (they also have a (it also has a list of games) but I'm not summarizing them individually). Also, regarding Sega Saturn. Since Guardiana doesn't list it, the best database around is Satakore, but they don't give total game numbers and what you see summarized are actually the whole bunch of releases, including special editions and low-budget reprints as separate entries (which does for a total of 1933 entries). You can come with a close idea noticing that the Japanese library, the biggest one, has 1265 entries itself, but then again it counts some games twice or more because of their reprints, and there's also a bunch of games from USA and Europe which never did to Japan. And Wikipedia doesn't give any number this time (it also has a list of games too). What should be the total sum of Sega Saturn games then. Over 1000 games at least? There's also these other systems which I would be interested in confirming their numbers. Guardiana states that Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Gear have 1046 games and 366 games each, and Wikipedia states that Master System, Nintendo 64, GameCube and Xbox have 318 games, 387 games, 640 games and 950 games each. Are they all certain?
If you got a penny for every false truth, mistruth, mistake and out and out lie there are on Wikipedia then you could buy quite a sizable game collection...
I wouldn't trust wikipedia as its easily editable by anyone so i could see someone saying on some random website that the saturn had 300 games and i could then edit its wiki page to say the saturn had only 300 games without actually checking.
All right. Aside from Wikipedia's unreliability (which should be corrected anyway), what should be the real numbers of all these systems, then?
Let me consult a book written on this matter According to the encyclopedia of Game Machines Saturn- 1200 Dreamcast-500 granted those are approximated numbers
There was a certain number of regionnally exclusive Saturn games, I'd say about 100 (both US and Europe) without counting several versions (like FIFA 98 Spanish & UK & German ect.) seperately. Moreover there are the Japanese rerelases. Among the 1265 are already about 64 SataKore Games, which, sometimes, are unique in content (SFZ II Dash). I'd roughly estimate a total number of ABOUT 800 unique games. LOADS of Japanese games had limited / altered / budget versions and there were also many ports from Japan to the West, sometimes under different names. Koei produced 73 games and almost every single one of them had at least one slightly different brother (just keep in mind the 3 different limited editions of one game^^) I could never effort myself to do a complete "unique games" list, but I'm pretty it's significantly below one thousand.
