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Plezbo on 24 February 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
Plezbo said:
CGI-Quality said:

Which weren't 16-bit systems.

Doesn't matter, they were in the same generation.  Nintendo 64 was a 64-bit machine and Playstation was a 32-bit system, noone disagrees that they were in the same generation.  3DO and NeoGeo were both released during the 4th Console Generation and featured 4th Generation games (sprite based game, lacking polygon based models for the vast majority of their games).  Therefore, same generation as SNES and more powerful than it. 

Case rested, closed, and killed. 

The 3DO was a 5th gen system.

It was to compete with the PlayStation and Saturn. It actually started off the gen, but it was mainly ignored because it didn't have the library to keep up. Had it been supported like those two, it wouldn't be, understandably, mistaken for a 4th gen console. But it couldn't, and died like the Dreamcast the following gen. 

The Neo Geo, while a 4th gen system, also wasn't 16-bit, but I will concede to being wrong here regarding the era. The 3DO, since I owned one, I would definitely not have mistaken, because I thought it would take off and remember long, sleepless nights battling with buddies of mine about which systems would rule the time. I was right in the end about at least one of them.

 

3DO came out when I was in 4th grade, it came out before PSX and SS, I remember that.  I can believe that it was the opening shot of the 5th generation, I just remembered my friend having it in 4th grade and it being both the most powerful thing out at the time and the most expensive.  So we are both 1 for 2 here, NeoGeo 4th Gen, 3DO 5th.  I considered 3DO 4th simply because it didn't do the 3D Polygon games as much, but that is a foolish assumption, the same as saying Wii and Wii U are not part of their respective gens because of lesser graphics, I stand corrected.  

We both learned something from this, nice.  

Freaky avatar by the way, I wasn't really looking at it for a while so I thought it was a real person, then I noticed the ears and freaked out a little bit.