They seem to exist, just I've only found snippets of info such as here. Any idea about the usual questions? How many may have been made, their current price range, obtaining one, etc. Pretty much stuff bound to get asked. More pictures would be nice too. Curious to see what oval buttons together with the coloring of the common white Saturn model, is like in practice.
That site isn't very good if they don't know that the picture they used is the original pre-production Saturn. It wasn't off white at all, it was Champaign sliver and it NEVER made it in to production at all apart from a few early demo units. Even the very first units to be used in game studios were gray. There is no such thing as a white oval buttoned Sega Saturn unless someone did a mod job. These are the only official Saturns. Gray - JPN Sega oval button Black - JPN Hitachi oval button Hi-Saturn Gray with a bluish tint - JPN Victor oval button V-Saturn White - JPN Sega round button Black - JPN Hitachi round button Hi-Saturn Black - JPN Hitachi Navi Saturn (completely different shape. More like a box) Light Gray - JPN Victor round button V-Saturn Translucent black - Sega "This is Cool" round button Saturn Translucent dark green / blue (looks almost black) - Sega Derby Stallion round button Saturn Black - PAL Sega Saturn oval button Black - PAL Sega Saturn round button Black - NTSC-U Sega Saturn oval button Black - NTSC-U Sega Saturn round button And if you must include, the Korean Samsung Saturn which just uses the US / PAL Saturn's oval button case. That's it. No other Saturns were made apart from them. There are some limited editions such as the Toy's R Us white Sonic Saturn but that's just a standard white round buttoned Saturn with a Sonic silhouette printed on to the lid. Yakumo
Oh... Prototypes, I should've noticed from reading. Postage hurts the idea anyway. Not cheap getting a Saturn located in Japan to here.
That caught my attention. WTF? I've never seen a real life picture of that "champagne" saturn (why is it listed ass "off white" anyway?". It was one of the first official pictures of the new console that Sega gave out to the press in 1994, it's been featured in all magazines of the time. Maybe some of these were used as kiosk units, but that'd be new to me.
Yeah a handful of pre-production shells possibly stashed in a dark basement corner at Sega HQ does us no good.
