 A high @-@ quality port of the Namco arcade game Ridge Racer contributed to the PlayStation 's early success , and garnered favorable comparisons in the media to the Saturn version of Sega 's Daytona USA , which was considered inferior to its arcade counterpart . Namco , a longtime arcade competitor with Sega , also unveiled the Namco System 11 arcade board , which was based on raw PlayStation hardware . Although the System 11 was technically inferior to Sega 's Model 2 arcade board , its lower price made it an attractive prospect for smaller arcades . Following a 1994 acquisition of Sega developers , Namco released Tekken for the System 11 and PlayStation . Directed by former Virtua Fighter designer Seiichi Ishii , Tekken was intended to be a fundamentally similar title , with the addition of detailed textures and twice the frame rate . Tekken surpassed Virtua Fighter in popularity due to its superior graphics and nearly arcade @-@ perfect console port , becoming the first million @-@ selling PlayStation title . On October 2 , 1995 Sega announced a Saturn price reduction to $ 299 . Moreover , high @-@ quality Saturn ports of the Sega Model 2 arcade hits Sega Rally Championship , Virtua Cop , and Virtua Fighter 2 ( running at 60 frames per second at a high resolution ) were available by the end of the year — and were generally regarded as superior to any competitors on the PlayStation . Notwithstanding a subsequent increase in Saturn sales during the 1995 holiday season , these games were not enough to reverse the PlayStation 's decisive lead . By 1996 , the PlayStation had a considerably larger library than the Saturn , although Sega hoped to generate increased interest in the Saturn with upcoming exclusives such as Nights into Dreams .... Within its first year , the PlayStation secured over 20 % of the entire U.S. video game market . On the first day of the May 1996 E3 show , Sony announced a PlayStation price reduction to $ 199 ; on the second day of the show Sega announced they were matching this price , even though Saturn hardware was more expensive to manufacture . Sony 's price reduction was in turn a reaction to the release of the Model 2 Saturn in Japan at a price roughly equivalent to $ 199 . 
