Nothing on Jaguar comes close graphically to some of the stuff I've played on 3DO. I think it's safe to say 3DO was easily more powerful than Jag.

Excluding the Jaguar CD which even less people owned, the console was also very limited in what it could do with the cartridges.

The 3DO but hell I would get both to add to my collection if given the chance and the cash!

"Excluding the Jaguar CD which even less people owned, the console was also very limited in what it could do with the cartridges."

That's true. I noticed some people mentioned Iron Soldier, but no one mentioned much superior, CD only, Iron Soldier 2.

3DO had a more traditional architecture for the time so I think the PS3 -> jag 3DO->360 analogy is pretty good. Sure the 68k wasn't a 64-bit cpu and neither was the GPU, but the blitter and object processor had 64bit registers allowing the machine to operate on 64-bits in one cycle. The 3DO didn't even have what would be considered a GPU now.

The reason things looked graphically better was the CD drive, ease of development for PC game devs, and way more dev support in general.

I have a 3DO and I'll tell you the one reason its better than Jaguar:

If you want to play 2 players, you plug the second controller into the top of the first controller! How cool is that? There's no second plugin, you have to plug it into the first controller.

No fuckin joke, if you have one you'll know what I mean. Whoever thought of that is a real jackass.

But I'm pretty sure 3DO had the first ever Need For Speed titled "Road & Track Presents The Need For Speed" so props for that.

I wanted a 3D0 so bad back in the day. I wanted to punch my Snes!! Probably best I never got one, but 3D0 wins. There wasn't a single Jaguar game that appealed to me.

I vaguely remember it, but I bought my first PC in 1997, I started searching before, but I delayed the buy due to Pentium FDIV bug until AMD released the K6, then I got a K6-166 at the price of a Pentium 133. By then 3DO wasn't produced anymore and the first Playstation was already the queen of consoles (and I didn't like it at all, except for playing with friends at parties).

We got one, ever, at EB back when I worked there during the ol' college days (it didn't sell: we wound up sending it back) but, from what I recall at the time, it was extremely buggy/temperamental and it cost more than an actual 3DO making it pretty much utterly pointless.

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Back in DOS and Win 3.x era, anything different from plain Tseng Labs or other common graphics and SoundBlaster for sound was really a gamble, even when it wasn't bugged. Still with Win95, thanks to 16bit bits and pieces and MS dropping any serious support and improvement short after W98 release (only during XP Home late years MS eventually extended the lifecycle also for home and not professional versions) I had incompatibilities and conflicts popping up out from nowhere after driver updates, SW installs or updates, etc, I even eventually had to do an intermediate step through Win ME as W98 wasn't available anymore, W95 drivers weren't released anymore for some new HW I wanted and Win 2000 drivers weren't there yet, they started coming for some of my first major upgrade's HW one year too late. Win 2000 eventually became the best MS OS I ever had, but in the meantime I was forced to use Win ME crap. Anyway, Win ME became my vaccine for MS marketing, as time went by I even forgave ATI for its bad support for my first graphics card and I restarted buying its products, but I never forgave MS for Win ME and whatever they say I initially don't believe them anymore until it's proven with scientific methods