/vr/ - Retro Games

>Nintendo's monopoly in the decade that began with the fiercest video game console competition there ever was or ever will be again and ended with the absolute trouncing of all existing console manufacturers by big business, ushering in the modern era of video gaming
Thank God for the fucking 3DO!

Trip's probably trying to take credit for demonstrating that a relatively simple CD based console produced by major corporations could be competitive. Who's to say if Sony would or wouldn't have gone ahead with the Playstation without Trip's sacrificial lamb revealing many of the pitfalls first.

Why have we been having this thread every day lately? Is it because it's another graphic illustrator of who "was there" and who wasn't?

Basically, the 3DO was a pretty good idea, sort of representing a bridge between the rising but VERY expensive PC style gaming and console gaming. I'm sure Trip was looking at the $1500 gaming PC entry point and the $300 32x and Sega CD and thought there might be some room in the market for a console like 3DO (and a PC add-on like 3DO Blaster) and he wasn't entirely wrong.

A lot of games DID release for it, but the significant investment in hardware both for manufacturers and consumers resulted in too-slow growth then when Playstation was able to come out with a couple extra years of tech advancement and Sony's deep pockets, doing almost exactly what 3DO did but more powerfully and cheaper it was a no-brainer for consumers and the all-in-one production and distribution Sony already had running as a music CD publisher made it a no-brainer for developers as well.

There was no way any video game company could have possibly stood up toe-to-toe against Sony and the 3DO was the console the Playstation landed most squarely on top of.

Basically because as a platform that wasn't tied to software markup, it was very expensive and never got the installed user base before Playstation came along. The only reason it wasn't a complete joke like Ouya was because it was still cheaper than a gaming computer

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This also happens a lot. I think maybe Code Veronica is also this way one way or the other. These days, I think those decisions are very feedback based from Jap gamers and easy to do since we're used to games having multiple difficulty settings. I'm sure if Vic had just stuck a difficulty selection in Alundra he'd be much less reviled.

I'd suggest he mail Ken Kutaragi the head of Howard Lincoln as a tribute and humbly request his support either tacit or material.