/vr/ - Retro Games

>mfw this thread has more posts than the petition and Japanese publishers don't give a fuck about either

>tfw I was literally just holding one of these Rhino brand SNES controllers an hour ago saying to my wife "check out this crappy off brand player 2 controller that came with that 1chip SNES lot I bought.

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Now we have a perfect storm for failure: a console that's not really selling very well, game companies of opportunity shoveling crapware onto your platform that--for now at least--is selling and seems cool, and you've got two competitors--Sony and Sega-- beating the shit out of each other for the hard core market.

You've got to fix these problems, but how? First, you start giving a cut of the game profits to the console makers. This was a last ditch effort on the part of 3DO, and the console makers liked it, and even dropped their prices to the point where they only made a few bucks on each system.

But there were no consoles out there, already, so the profits of sold games didn't exist. And with the price drop from $800 to $600, it was still way too expensive and obscure to draw any meaningful market adoption.

In the end, yes, it was too expensive, and no, it didn't have any flagship games. But it wasn't a failure out of the gate. The lack of games was a result of lack of adoption, not lack of talent or vision. The Jaguar was the console that just sucked dicks all along and was never gonna work.

Oh, and the 3DO had copy protection. Very strong copy protection. Nothing that lasted too long after the console died, but at the time, it was never cracked, and CD burnders were wicked expensive: more expensive than the console. Piracy had no effect on the console.

OK, I am spent.