staticneuron on 24 March 2007
stof said:
Wikipedia - Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration.
Now add a PS and subtract a DO from the consoles name and that sentence still seems frightfully accurate.
Kidding or not the situation behind these two systems were different. I was in cali when the 3do was released and I saw its demise early on. The 3do is a standard. The 3do never had successful consoles in its name before. THe 3do was never one price. I have actually seen 3 different 3do's released Panasonic, JVC and goldstar and after more research It seems as if they were more.. like japan had a sanyo 3do. Performance varied on each console which led to mixed reviews and customer confusion.
This is a different time period. People are spending 300+ and growing for their gadgets... in comparison to many other items on the market the PS3 isn't that bad. And I am actually curious of whether or not the 3do sold 2 million + units. I highly doubt it... even over the multiple iterations.
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