The May price drop to $149, matched by a similar Nintendo price drop, also kept sales steady. Nevertheless, the Saturn held its ground with games such as Tomb Raider 2 and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The Saturn wasn't helped by several strong releases for the N64 this year, including multiple Final Fantasy games, Diddy Kong Racing and Goldeneye 007. Sega's Sonic Team continued to fail to create a major Sonic title to match Super Mario 64, and the international release of the Nintendo 64 made the competition global. Unfortunately for Sega, the Saturn lost some of its momentum in 1997, which ultimately led to Nintendo's console selling more by the end of its life. By the end of 1996, over 10 million Saturns had been sold in that year alone. Nights into Dreams served as a major platformer for the Saturn, as did Crash Badicoot, and holiday releases such as Tomb Raider and Fighters Megamix performed well enough to hold against the N64's strong first holiday season. The rest of 1996 set the tone for the rest of the generation, with a number of major Nintendo games being met and matched by similarly high profile Saturn games. The Saturn's price was then lowered to match the N64's launch price of $249.

By the launch of the Nintendo 64 on June 23 in Japan, the Saturn had a respectable library. Other major hits of latter 1995 and the first half of 1996 included Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Cop, Street Fighter Alpha, Rayman, and Resident Evil. These included key first party games like Virtua Fighter 2, the best selling Saturn game ever by a large degree. In late 1995, shortly after its international launch, the Saturn began receiving a steady stream of titles for the first time. This later launch also gave third party developers time to prepare games for the system. For this and for supply reasons, the Western release came almost a year later, on 'Saturnday,' or Septemat a cost of $299. As Nintendo was still strongly supporting their SNES, the Saturn thus got off to a slow start in the country. The Saturn launched fairly early in Japan, in November 1994, before there were very many games available for it, with the chief exceptions being Virtua Fighter and Daytonna USA.

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