@frybread:
Almost forgot about this completely but would you consider adding 3DO to your list of console? I think it had a 3 year lifespan between 1993-1996 and was arguably the first 5th gen console to appear on the market.
| mibuokami said: @frybread: Almost forgot about this completely but would you consider adding 3DO to your list of console? I think it had a 3 year lifespan between 1993-1996 and was arguably the first 5th gen console to appear on the market. |
Sure, game dates are hard to find for 3DO but I'll try. And hey good research on the Dreamcast hardware, more in-depth than me!
3DO was interesting, it's how I'd make a console. Let any company make it and just charge a small royalty fee per console sold. You could even buy a "3DO Blaster" card for your PC to make it compatible with 3DO games. I don't understand why it didn't work. High price maybe?
frybread said:
Sure, game dates are hard to find for 3DO but I'll try. And hey good research on the Dreamcast hardware, more in-depth than me!
3DO was interesting, it's how I'd make a console. Let any company make it and just charge a small royalty fee per console sold. You could even buy a "3DO Blaster" card for your PC to make it compatible with 3DO games. I don't understand why it didn't work. High price maybe?
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Thanks, I'll be the first to admit that I was a huge Sega fanboy (went through the whole Nintendo suxxor phase).
With regards to the 3DO, I think it was another case of advance tech ahead of its time that was just too expensive. The initial cost of the 3DO when accounting for inflation would be more thann $900 US at its launch, adding to its woe was poor protection and no region locking features, which made piracy dead easy.
The system also launch at a time where the market was saturated with consoles. In its lifetime it had to compete with the SNES, Megadrive, TurboGrafx-16, Neo-Geo, Saturn, Playstation, Jaguar and the Commodore. There was just too many cheaper competition on the market.
Finally found an (incomplete) game list. I believe the final game released for 3DO was in 1996, Captain Quazar.
Ps2 will live even longer if ps4 can play ps2 games. That's why Konami got away with the ps1 disc in the MGS essentials collection. Sony needs to get people BC with firmware or something. I guess you get what you pay for
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
PS2 is well on track to take the crown for longest lifespan. It will de-throne the Neo Geo!
then the wii will dethrone ps2! :D maybe lol most likley hehe
If at first you don't succeed, you fail
I kind of doubt that, Nintendo does a good job of killing its consoles when it wants them dead.
but never have they had one this popular, the industry has changed, and so has nintendos philosophy
If at first you don't succeed, you fail
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