Sega Saturn games are now on the way to Xbox Live arcade at least though we can hope they will make the jump to PS3 and PC as well.

The roll out starts with Guardian Heroes which was an utterly brilliant Saturn game. Intro here for anime fans it's an instabuy.

shining force 3 or nothing :X

Excellent indeed! I too, hope that they'll bring this to PC and PS3. Platform exclusives suck, but SEGA typically releases multiplatform, so there's a good chance.

Nice, I've wanted to play Guardian Heroes for some time. Treasure games are awesome.

Hopefully it does move to PS3/PC though, I'll wait and see.

The poster of the article states (in comments), that he'll be bringing the feedback/comments to a SEGA exec. ^_^

Heck yes, been wanting to play Guardian Heroes for ages.

Yeah Sega seem to want to forget the whole sorry Saturn affair but fan demand isn't letting them. This is most certainly them just dipping their toes in. It's going to require strong sales of Guardian Heroes and a lot of fan demand to keep them interested in Saturn re-releases.

just look at how much saturn games are still selling for on amazon and ebay. with no reliable Sega Saturn emulator available, fan support is the last of the issues for getting SS games out. the fact that the system was a complete bitch to program for and that most of these exclusive Sega Saturn games are going to need major programing overhauls to work right on other platforms is probably a much bigger hurdle.

do I own a Xbox 360, yes.

have I ever bought a damned thing off of XBLA, hell no.

is this game going to change that, oh yeah!

The fact that this game is hands down my favorite sega saturn title will probably lead me into buying multiple copies of it if Sega releases it in the PC too.

(now if only they leave in the debug mode codes and the 99 continues on hardmode bug so that the game is actually completable ....)

GameTap had some working code for a few Saturn titles for PC. SEGA could always buy that, heh.

All three scenarios. Translated.
Sadly, I have my doubts about the likelihood of this happening.

Also keep an eye on the stability and performance of these ports. Last time I checked, hassle-free emulation of the Saturn was still out of reach.

If Panzer Dragoon Saga by some stretch of the imagination gets released lots of people are going to snatch that up and try selling their hard copy on ebay for whatever money they can.

Mostly due to the romsets. There are dozens of Saturn roms floating around on the Internet and some games only like to run with the right ones. This isn't a problem for Sega, all they have to do is match the game to the rom and package it together.
Bollocks to that. Oh I will buy Panzer Saga like a shot but you will get my physical copy only out of my cold dead hands.

I'm not sure it's just the roms. Depending on the game and emulator, I've heard (ahem) that there's still some configuration you'd have to do besides set up the right rom to make the game run its smoothest.

Though I guess that's not so different than what GOG does with its DOS library. At least we can hope Sega bothers to figure out the hard stuff in their ports so that we don't have to.

Awesome I was contemplating getting a saturn just to play guardian heroes again, I loved it as a kid.

Day one purchase for me.

Would like to see die hard arcade as well, would make a good xbla game

Cool. Maybe we can finally get Datonya USA and Xmen: Chlidren of the atom.