| The_Sony_Girl1 said: I had no idea that the 3DO was Panasonic. |
It depended. All companies in the 3DO company would manufacture 3DOs.
This was the Panasonic's 3DO:
And this was the Sanyo model:
Same specs, same games. The console was expensive because the game's royalties went to the 3DO company and were shared between all members. That was bad because if one of them sold way more units (like Panasonic did), the game sales profit was actually split equally. So all units were sold with decent margins, making the console expensive. That's what will happne to the Steam Machines. Valve get the profit for game sales and for the controller, so the manufacturers will have to sell the unit at a decent price margin, unlike PS4/X1 that work with a tiny margin because they also get the royalties.
I'm planning to bump this thread some months later so OP can eat some crow.
