There was NO major Sonic game made for the saturn SONIC JAM and SONIC R are not major Sonic titles.
Again and for the last time . There was a major Sonic game in development for the Saturns sadly due to market share and Saturn failure in the West it was moved to up to the Dreamcast . The sight seeing research that the Team did in S.America for Sonic Adv was all conducted in 1996 and in 1997 Sonic Team were also given the Sega Rally CS Team to up their numbers as work continued on 2 Saturn projects by the Sonic Team (namely Burning Rangers and Sonic Adv) . So a lot of time and effort was put in to the Saturn title and with out that work already done . Sonic Adv would never have been ready to launch just after the DC launched in Japan .
[/size]: I thought of the concept itself right at the end of the development of the [/color][/size]NiGHTS[/color][/size] project - around August 1996. [/color][/size]Actual development on Dreamcast started last July (July 1997)[/color]
LOL. Work did start on Project Sonic after NiGHTS, but that was on the Saturn; The Dreamcast project wasn't ready in 1996 and none of the DC hardware was in place (stuff like SH-4 and Power VR didn't come online until 1997 for starters) and keep on dreaming that a project of Sonic Adv size could be completed in just over a year much less the DC project was in any short of shape for development in 1996.
Stop trying to rewrite history in order to show SOJ are the good guys.
I'm not rewriting history at all . Fact is Project Sonic was in development for the Saturn and the original members of the Sonic Team . Clear from the interviews and also by the main director of Sonic Adv . Lots of games have been in serious development on a platform only to be moved up to another due to various reasons ... Luigi Mansion started life as an N64 title, Star Fox Adv the same, so did Kameo, so did Perfect Dark Zero , and if one looks at SEGA well a number of their XBox or PS2 titles started life on the DC before being moved up to other platforms like with Gunvalkyrie , Toe Jam and Earl 3 and son on . It happens