3DO vs PlayStation: The Overlooked Console War
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- In today's video, we talk about the mid-nineties and the war for supremacy between new kids on the block Sony's Playstation brand and Trip Hawkin's 3DO.
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The 3DO was the Xbox before the Xbox.
My biggest take away from this is that I already knew that the PS1 can push a lot more polygons than the 3DO but what I never thought about was that the resolution of the 3DO was higher which helps a lot to make it's games look prettier even though it lacks polygon power. I could never put my finger on why I thought 3DO games looked so unique like this weird photo-realism to them.
I remember playing road rash on the 3do as a kid at costco. I wanted one so bad. I couldn't understand why my dad wouldnt buy me one. In hindsight $699 us was ludicrous in 1993 if they wanted to sell those things.
The actual cost of living is harder now that it was in the 90's. The middle class is becoming one with the lower class. What was affordable for some might now be affordable for almost none, even "adjusted" for inflation. I've seen things become 600% more expensive over the past three years, while my wage actually decreased.
@@keilmillerjr9701 I can confirm.. back in the 90's we could afford almost anything as a middle class family. Now we're just barely scraping by, if that..
@@HiNRGboy Probably because you're no longer technically middle class. There are three classes to middle class. Lower middle class, middle class and Upper middle class.
$0-28,007 LC 0-20th percentile
$28,008-55,000 LMC 20-40th percentile
$55,001-89,744 MC 40-60th percentile
$89,745-149,131 UMC 60-80th percentile
$149,132+ UC top 20% earners.
And let's not even talk about the 135.5% inflation from 1990-2023. Most middle class make the same amount basically but their earnings purchases half of what it did in the 90s. Everyone needs to seriously rethink their jobs and who they work for, because they're robbing you.
Those that are right now MC are technically LC based on the current inflation.
@@mormacfey I don't know how they are calculating inflation, but I can tell you that it is not correct. Let's look at average things that people require. Getting rid of trash. It's up by 600% in my town over the past 3 years. 87 gasoline is up 140% over the past 3 years, and that has been slowly dropping. Same with diesel, it comes down to 150%. Food: I used to fill a carriage for the cost of $100. Now it's about $350. How about the cost of a used vehicle? Cheap ones are no longer $600. They are $3000. My motorcycle tripled in value. It's almost worth the same price it was new. Too bad it's my most reliable vehicle, and I couldn't replace it later. What's going on with rent? We are being squeezed while our wages are going down. My last job literally gave me a demotion, because corona? They provided no excuse, while making the most amount of money they ever have.
3DO was like a pre dev kit for PS1 developers.
Not surprising that many projects work together in some way.
Naughty Dog originally made Way of the Warrior for 3D0.
Nice use of Ristar music! 1:29
Love the 3DO! My older brother and I chipped in a pay check and bought a FZ-10 model back then. We played the shit out of Wing Commander 3, Wolfenstein 3D, and Road Rash.
Shortly after, we bought a PS1 with Castlevania SOTN and Tenchu and never looked back
3do would have never made it. it was priced out of 90% of the public. the ps1 was 199 if memory serves me right. hella bettar than the 699 both yall forked over.
@@ChickenMcThiccken If memory serves me right, it only cost us $199.
The 3DO couldn't render anything at 640x480. It had 320x240 and 320x480 modes and a very primitive upscaling chip outputted a blurry "interpolated" 640x480 that wasn't much more than a bilinear filter. Virtually all games use the lower 320x240 mode.
The PSX certainly wasn't limited to 320x240 either. It has true native 512x240 and 640x240p/480i graphics modes. Many games switch to hi-res mode for title screens or UI and some games run in hi-res such as Crash Bandicoot (512) and Wipeout 3 (640), both of which run rings around the 3DO.
and yet 1024x768 resolution was a standard in 1990. 640x480 was so 1987 not 1994. Consoles always holding things back.
A bit revisionist there and unfair to consoles/gaming. Beyond the realities of consoles outputting to standard definition interlaced TV, sure, over in the PC space, EGA/VGA had featured high-res modes since the late 80s, and 800x600 and 1024x768 SVGA resolutions existed for productivity and CAD work...but gaming was still predominantly 320x200 until the mid 90s. And 1024x768 in the early 90s often meant a headache-inducing 42i CRT refresh with single-digit fps.
Sure you had your hi-res 640x480 SVGA outliers by 93-94, particularly CD-ROM titles like The 7th Guest and Myst and Wing Commander 3, but certainly PC gaming in 320x200 was the norm when the 3DO and PSX came out, look at the big 94-95 games like Descent, Doom 1+2, Dark Forces and Command and Conquer.
And while WC3 on PC was higher res, the 3DO could eg. boast 16-bit colour rather than 8-bit.
Even once Quake hit in 96, 3D accelerators like the Voodoo 1 and Rendition Verite were 640x480 cards, the first 3D cards capable of even 800x600 (3dfx Voodoo 2, NVIDIA RIVA 128) didn't really launch until late 97-early 98.
1024 PC gaming just barely made the tail end of the 90s, not the beginning of it and consoles, even the 3DO but certainly the PSX, punched well above their weight for their price until then.
@@mormacfey In 1994, people were running games like Doom 2 at 320x240 resolution on their PCs. Most PCs didn’t even any have any graphics acceleration at that point and it was mostly 2D games that used 640x480 resolution.
@@blaah4490 I gamed back then I know exactly what I was using. You can't tell me anything different.
@@mormacfey I don’t know what you were using, but in 1994 most gamers were playing 3D games on their PCs at 320x200 resolution.
I was already an adult and hardcore gamer in 1993. The 3DO came out like 2 years before the PS1 in USA. The 3DO was dead in the USA by the time pS1 released
I also grew up in the Bay Area where both companies had their USA HQs, and I knew a few 3DO employees, and myself worked for both SEGA & Sony through the mid 90s.
I don’t recall anyone that considered the 3DO to be competitive with the PS1.
I was the only person that I knew that had a 3DO (and Neo Geo 😂)
Exactly. I was born in 82 and nobody had a 3do. I've never even seen one in person. 😂
Star Control 2 on 3DO is what made me buy one when I could.
The Voiceover work they did is simply amazing if you were a fan of the PC version.
yes! I spent an entire summer playing Star Control 2. Not sure how I beat it in the days before internet...well before I had internet
@@Valthonis- It's nice that this has been ported to modern computers and Android with optional HD graphics as freeware, also the original devs are FINALLY working on a true sequel to it...
@@JohnnyProctor9 wait what? there is a real sequel in works? dang, that's amazing news!
I believe Squaresoft and Enix were two separate companies during the PS1 era and later merged in 2003 into Square Enix. Great video btw!!
I’m so glad Kojima chose the PS1 over 3DO for developing MGS. Had it have been on 3DO, the series might’ve been very, very different.
Did he ever consider it?
It would have been forgotten. The best game on a failed console rarely becomes a massive hit that lasts for decades.
Or there would be 4-5 companies vs 3
@@droneadventures4147The 3do had one 12.5mhz cpu.
@@yearight5303and if you were to read both of you alls comments: he mentioned GPU, you tried to correct him talking about CPU. They're not the same piece.
I think the biggest problem with the 3DO besides the price was that it was loaded with bad games, stuff that most companies would not release
The 90s was a very competitive time with the explosion of CD capable game systems from Asia, US and Europe. Sony dominated as everyone knows, but I wished the 3DO survived long enough for developers to properly utilize the system, for it possesed very capable hardware under the hood.
Yeah, and imagine the kind of stuff we could have seen if 3DO had 3rd parties like Konami, Capcom, Squaresoft, Enix, and Sunsoft developing games for them. If the price was more reasonable and they had 3rd parties like that on board, they may have actually dominated that generation despite being the weakest console overall. One generation later, the PS2 showed us that it's really all about the games library more then anything else (although DVD playback was also a huge factor in it's success.)
@@JMFSpike The graphics potential of the system was quite underestimated. I think Space Hulk was the best showcase of the hardware, but still below potential.
Once Street Fighter 2 came out, if a controller didn't have at least 6 buttons it was an automatic NO for me.
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I wish I could travel back in time and play all this when it was brand new! I remember seeing a 3DO kiosk at the mall in the early 90s and it was running Crash 'N' Burn. My lil 9 year old brain was blown away. It would've been late '93 or somewhere around then... Not long after we saw Namco Ridge Racer and Tekken in the arcade and that was even more incredible! Within those few years games had suddenly made a huge leap forward. It's very different today where we see very subtle gradual advancements in graphics.
I miss playing CTR with the boys. Good times.
3DO never had a chance because of the price.
Exactly. Marketing had little to do with its failure. It was the price.
@@dreamlandnightmare Well they were marketing to more adults at the time and it failed just like the Philips CD-I 2 years before it.
@@mormacfey Phillips CD-I also failed because of the price ($700 just like the 3DO) and complete lack of decent games.
@@dreamlandnightmare $700 was still a lot cheaper than any PC at that point. I remember VCRs costing $1000-1400 when they first came out and movies were $80-90 in the early 80s around $230 in todays money. The players didn't even reach the $200-400 mark for 10 years around 1985.
The price for that tech didn't hurt it at all.
Mass production makes things cheap.
The 3DO didn't cost $700 other than for a few months, even the Goldstar 3DO sold for $399 at launch.
@@mormacfey But they weren't PCs nor advertised as such. They were multimedia gaming consoles.
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My friend had a 3DO and hyped it up so much as a kid. I was never impressed.
Wow, you knew someone who owned a 3DO. Didn't know anybody who had one of the "also running" consoles in the day
@@napoleonfeanor Yup it was only this one person I knew and he was aggresive about getting us all over to see it in action.
@@FireBomberBassistyea a 3do was a rare sighting even back then. I knew someone who owned a Jaguar but only played it when no one was around. He was always being weird when it came to that system
Was the same in my town. There was always the one guy with lots of money who made a big show of buying those consoles before anyone else. He had the 3DO and showed it off like crazy. None of us had his deep pockets so we just gawked at it. The guy loved the attention and was rather smug about it. Then the Playstation launched and his 3DO was forgotten. He had to go get a Playstation like everyone else except everyone else had them. He got no bragging out of it.
I will toss in a small critique of my own in here... the 3DO and PS1 were both capable of doing 640x480 (or the PAL equivalent) interlaced with the same color depth. Though both can also do the same 320x240 (or the PAL equivalent) resolution. I do wish this was more clearly mentioned as just saying 640x480 without mentioning interlacing can make one in the know assume you mean progressive scan. Also while a forgotten controller today there was the Dual Analog Controller released a few months before the original DualShock making it the actual first to feature analog sticks as we know them today (there was also a flight controller but I was just thinking of standard controllers). That is all I do have though critique wise with my knowledge.
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Judging by comments a LOT of viewers are too young to remember this. They just remember AFER the PS1 had already won.
They don’t remember 3DO, Jaguar, PC ENGINE, CD-I. It was chaos back then. There were so many choices all of them expensive with a couple decent games at launch.
Out of the 3DO Jaguar and pc engine the pc engine is the best one out of the group :)
First mover advantage hobbled 3DO. In my town, the people with deep pockets got the 3DO or Neo Geo long before the US Playstation release. So everybody with a decent number of game friends knew someone who bragged about having one of these systems. They would drag the consoles to anime club meetings or other events and everybody got to see these $700 consoles almost nobody could afford. Nice. But for rich people, only. Then the Playstation launched at a much lower cost everybody could actually afford, and soon everyone you knew had a Sony. Most had seen the 3DO first and knew they didn't care about it. The 3DO went from being a system braggarts talked about to being a joke nobody talked about in weeks. The guys who bought one just to flex their wallets got burned.
3DO vs. PlayStation console war? Ha, it wasn't even a competition. The real console war was between the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. No one I knew even owned a 3DO, and I'm not surprised, considering the $699 price when it launched. I hadn't even heard of the 3DO back then.
Even the war between the PS1 and N64 was pretty uneven considering Sony outsold Nintendo 3-1. It was even worse the next gen with PS2 doing 150 million while Gamecube not even selling 25m. Even the og Xbox outsold the GC.
@@fattiger6957 The biggest mistake the og Xbox made was when Nintendo gave them a price tag for Nintendo and they declined even though they could afford them. It was 1/2 the price of the Activision deal.
This battle is like the opening battle of the movie Gladiator
I think people underestimate the marketing at the time. Playstation blitzed tv stations with high production value adverts with innovative directors like Chris Cunningham whereas the likes of Sega etc were nowhere to be seen. Most kids my age at the time didn't even know the likes of the Saturn existed! It always confused me when there used to be loads of gamegear adverts on tv and then when the 32bit ear started Sega etc hardly advertised at all!
I sitlll have a goldstar model. Tripp really dropped the ball with zero game royalties as thats how console makers get their money. Pretty much every game system out has bee sold at a loss until the tech improves and gets cheaper. However in 1993 $699 was a LOT of money to drop on a system. $1462 in 2023 USD (I got my Goldstar model for $50 at a flea market in 2004 even came with some games) and not many were willing to drop that much on a unknown system. I mean the NeoGeo was just as pricey but it had outstanding arcade success 3DO just had Tripp Hawkins and a idea.
$699 is STILL too expensive for a console… in 2023. lol
@@Nick_Nightingale I fully agree. Heck the PS3 had a rough start in 2006 and it was $599.
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Until this video, I forgot I first played Gex at a kiosk in Toys R Us, Lansing Il.
The 3DO's price point and weaksauce 3D capabilities (barely outperformed Nintendo's Super FX and Sega's SVP chips in their 16-bit carts) were it's biggest hurdles. It was a rich kid's toy with almost nothing to offer for dedicated gamers. I honestly think Trip Hawkins was short-sighted and in way over his head regarding hardware design/development. The 3DO company's mistakes are remarkably similar to Atari's during the same era.
If you think 3do need for speed is "barely outperforming" svp or fx, you are severely lacking intellect
One resoan the 3DO got overlooked is the kind of palces that where selling it. Here in Lafayette, La thier was only 1 store selling the CDI, 3DO, and Pippni systems and thier games. They coundn't sell then becuase of Blockbuster Video not offering thier games. Also the since school system was promoting home computers also made them an hard sell as low cost PCs.
Resident Evil wasn’t a PlayStation exclusive. It came out for the Saturn and windows at more or less the same time as PlayStation..
Saturn version came out a year later.
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The PS1 was an obsession for me as a teenager and I bought one on launch, so the 3DO passed me by apart from hearing about it on TV. A few years later the FZ-10 version was available cheap, so I bought one with a bundle of games and must say it offered something different to the PlayStation and liked playing the games that weren't on it. I eventually collected over 1000 PS1 games and pretty much all the accessories for it (like I said, it was an obsession) but still occasionally returned to the 3DO for a change.
3do was not that bad, but all games that were worth the time were ported to the ps1.
Not true...the exclusive talkie versions of Star Control II and Sherlock Holmes weren't, neither were Lost Eden, Robinson's Requiem, Corpse Killer, Guardian Wars, Killing Time, Zhadnost, Way of the Warrior, or DinoPark Tycoon. Also the PS1 port of Off-World Interceptor was censored and the PS1 port of Space Hulk had the graphics and AI nerfed...
@@GremmPaltakin - For the most part yes, I've owned both versions of Road Rash and Wing Commander III and honestly can't tell the difference.
3DO was awesome, but just super over priced . Return fire was one of my favorites
There was never a war. The 3DO was never competition, it was niche..
We greatly underestimate the role of 3DO in the history of 5th generation consoles and its impact on the PS1 and the Saturn.
I love how they thought that FMV games where the next big thing but then only to realize that there is no game play with them and its just a primitive DVD player.
I can understand where the 3DO bosses were coming from when it comes to their marketing (though I don’t agree with it). Nintendo had the kids market (and some teens) locked with the NES and SNES, Sega and Atari were targeting teens for the most part. So instead of marketing against them for those demographics they went for the adults. The price point I think was them figuring an adult would pay more for a multimedia console.
What they didn’t see is that kids and teens were the largest demographic of perspective customers and adults already had their multimedia machine… computers.
In the end the 3DO flopped. Sure it had some good games (SSF Turbo & Road Rash) but between the smaller catalogue, marketing to adults and the higher price tag it’s no wonder to see why the PSX wiped the floor with it.
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I wonder if they ever will come out with the 3DO mini
I had a FZ-1 but it was destroyed along with my Saturn when my basement flooded. 😭
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I’m curious to know what 3do games ran at 640x480? This didn’t become standard on console till the Dreamcast.
I don't know about the 3DO, but on the Playstation high resolution interlaced graphics became common in 3D fighting games (Dead or Alive, Tobal 2, Tekken 3).
Was there a PAL 3DO? I never saw one in stores.
I bought a 3DO in the 90s and absolutely loved it, I refused to get on board with the PS1, I’d play a sort of verbal top trumps with my mates and their PS1s, I did buy a PS1 years and years later just to see what it was like and it is pretty good, I’m still dedicated 3DO but I secretly know the PS1 was better.
5th Generation Game Home Consoles
3DO Jaguar Saturn PS1 and N64
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it wasn't a war it was a slaughter
a few 3DO games were ported to the PS1 when the PS1 launched.. Too bad Killing Time never made it - that was an interesting FPS , because of the music and the clever use of in-game FMVs..
It would been nice to see.If 3d0 would have done better with a much better marketing campaign and cheaper price tag 😀😀
The price was pretty integral to the whole business strategy the thing was built on. There really wasn't any way it would have been affordable going with that model. Panasonic did buy the brand, so if the sequel system had come out, it probably would have been cheaper since Panasonic would have followed the traditional console business model.
I almost bought 3do. Glad I didn't. I wish I would have gotten neo geo
I love how people try and say marketing alone is why one system beat another out. The truth is that the Playsation simply was better in a number of ways. Most notably polygonal processing as we moved in to a 3d based state of gameplay. The two things that killed the 3DO were 1) price point and 2) lack of vendor support. I personally think SF2 Turbo and Road Rash are the best ports on my 3DO but that's not enough to make me say it "beats" the PSX. At any rate, it wasn't marketring that made the PSX win, it was the fact that it had a better ecosystem and price point as well as some forward thinking technologies whether in their infancy or not. It's a shame too because Trip's idea of allowing licensing of the technology for manufacturers to make the console was potentially brilliant. Oh, as a side note... that ridiculous daisy chaining of controllers... who ever thought that was a good idea? LOL
Great video! I personally was in love with both and had both. Still do. You make the case for the 2 systems being closer than in reality, but I dont want to be negative to the 3DO for the sake of glorifying the PSX, but the Playstation just went godmode all over the Pannie. I have a soft spot for both as I was at that perfect age and place when both came out, in high school, and the 2 systems were there for me at a time when I was becoming an adult. I cherish the time I had with them so thanks for making such incredible videos about these systems.
Personally, I've always found both the 3DO and especially CD-I to have quite a strong mystique to them simply due to the treasure trove of really weird exclusive software (including not just games, but also educational media) that got released on them. Although I have a fascination with all failed consoles, none can match those 2 consoles in particular.
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What about PSX vs NEO GEO! :D The NEO GEO was something secret, forbidden or let's say... something the mob just could not afford. You can happily take this line as an intro... I'd appreciate. And many greetings from Germany, Lady Decade.
Yes, kids would salivate to have one, it's just too expensive.
i remember 3do very well. it cost 699 brand new. super street fighter 2 turbo was i think a 120 dollar game
I never thought of it as a rivalry because the 3DO didn't sell very well and the PS1 was hugely successful. But it is interesting to see the innovations they both tried. Maybe the 3DO could have been somewhat of a success if they just reduced the price significantly
I was thinking the same thing. I was around at that time and I never heard of a war between them; not even in the gaming mags did you hear about a war.
The 3DO was highly expensive, it cost like maybe 200 dollars more than the ps1.
There was a war (competitively) between Sony, Nintendo and Sega. Sony came out with the Playstation, Sega released the Saturn, and Nintendo with their 64 bit system.
A few years after that, the Saturn was dying off, about the only ones making games for the Sega Saturn was sega, but the PS1 was going strong with lots of developers developing games for it
And then all 3 released their new game systems; Sega beat them to the punch and released the Sega Dreamcast before the others in hopes of getting a larger market share, BUT shoppers avoided the Dreamcast like the plague, and waited patiently for the Playstation 2 to arrive. And so....the Sega Dreamcast died a quick death.
And so there were 2 left --- the Nintendo GameCube and the Sony Playstation 2. A few years later, Microsoft saw an opportunity to get into the gaming business, and the rest is history.
3DO? Nope, I had Playstation, my friend had a Nintendo 64, but no one had a 3DO or a Dreamcast 🤷
When the PS1 was out, I didn't know anything about the 3DO, the main competition was N64, and people were still messing with SNES and Genesis, we knew about the Saturn, but that was kinda like the Neo Geo, we knew it was there, but overlooked them, one cause of the prices and the other for lack of promotion for its games, but 3DO we didn't know it existed.
The 3DO didn't have a chance, but back then I didn't know about Sony's advantage at the time and so wrote them off as "just another TV and stereo company" trying to make a games console, and wrongly predicted they'd fail just like Panasonic and Philips. I ended up getting N64 but I did lament that PS1 got loads of great games Nintendo didn't.
Sorry, just have to point out Resident Evil wasn't a Sony exclusive, as it was also on the Saturn... should've picked another heavy hitter for that example considering there are plenty. Gran Turismo maybe? Considering that was one of the highest selling games of that time period...
You should make a video about cancelled M2 games
Crazy how quickly the 3DO was eclipsed by less expensive, but more powerful hardware. Also, the controller was so stupid and backwards.
Sony had a major competitive advantage over the other players due to the CD supply chain already being established. This cost reduction lead them to be able to allocate the savings to the developers making their library larger than Nintendo or 3DO or Sega. Sony is likely going to have their golden age in the next 10-20 years due to their library of games as well as their movie connections. Gaming is the new comic book films and they will likely be the driving force due to Twitch and other content interesting channels that exist. It will be interesting to see what happens with the consoles and console wars turn into the streaming wars. I think Nintendo's direction is smart. Sony has the library as well as the core base. But the key value is the data from these games and the teams that win have the best business intelligence to really decipher what gamers want to enjoy a game.
Yeah but that advantage is over because now it's basically all digital downloads and even they buy that infrastructure from their competitors. The majority of their library is 3rd party not 1st party and they don't own it. From what I've seen the brand is souring. I'm not a fan boy of any system either. Even Nintendo gave Microsoft a price for their business years ago and MS has spent far more for a single developer than what they were asking. There is no telling how things will turn out.
@@mormacfey I think they will have an advantage in the movie and TV business. The trend of successful shows and movies now appears to have the momentum of video games which Sony has access to a lot of exclusives. I think that will propel them with that form of entertainment.
Sony have been really dropping the ball over recent times in gaming. Resting on their laurels from previous generations successes.
Meanwhile the PS5 has just been opened up for PS5 game piracy so thats another issue they will now have to deal with.
Console wars are a necessity for gracious living.
This is like a university marketing essay
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2 meg of ram makes me feel so damn old XD
Gex on the 3DO was incredible.... until it got ported over PS1 and run at 60 fps
Memories
No one I knew in those days had a 3DO but everyone had PS1 at drop. I knew more people that had TG16 and who had that, no one had 3DO lol.
Super Street Fighter II Turbo was my favorite game
As someone born in 1982... this was not a war... nobody wanted a 3DO. 😂😂😂
I got a PS1 the year it came out and not one person I know of has ever mentioned 3DO outside of a commercial and TH-cam videos.
I had both 3DO and PS1, back in the day (actually had 2 PS1's with a link cable, at one point). Enjoyed the 3DO first, but had much gaming fun out of both. But, 3DO was always my favorite. The games ported to PS1, while technically superior (frame rates, usually), had certain key features dropped, which made them far less enjoyable. The unique games to the 3DO stand the test of time, and there's awesome titles and types of content released on 3DO that have never been released again in the same manner.
I still own a 3DO (albeit a re-purchase, years later). I don't own a PS1.
Greatest consoles of all time (IMHO):
1) PS3
2) 3DO
3) Atari 2600
Honorable mention: PS VITA
did 3do ever threaten anyone? how was this a war?
next will it be how the jaguar made war on the saturn?
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I kept noticing how it was said in the video how “younger gamers” were focused on in advertising for these consoles. Wouldn’t it have been older gamers that were targeted considering most people playing video games back then were pre-teens?
The fact that the 3do had kid friendly games like Putt Putt, and It's a Bird's Life, but also had games that had the Adults Only rating hurt the 3do's sales as well. Either way I loved my 3DO, and felt like I had something special. It was a leap in technology, and better than what I had previously, which was the Sega CD....
3d0 vs atari jaguar would have been a better comparison as the Panasonic system didn't really compete with the playstation (the saturn and n64 did)
the 3do was rarely discussed because no one had one and they were far too expensive, I dont think it would be classed as a console war, most people didnt even know what a 3do was. Even xbox is more of a competition and xbox has been getting trounced for decades.
Did Xbox get trounced in the Xbox 360 era Nope Microsoft should buy Sony ps get it over and done with
@@blade5883 LOL Phil spencer says xbox is gone by 2027 if gamepass doesnt sell millions more subs, meanwhile Sony are breaking records year on year for sales and profits. delusion at its best xbot lmao, And PS3 won that gen even with xboxs inflated rrod consoles increasing "sales" by more than 40% and ps3 releasing a year and half later than the 360, so xbox couldnt even hold that gap 🤣
Xbox came a generation later.
Yeah, this video is trying to make something out of nothing.
Xbox only started competing with the PS2.
Had it not been for the cost, the 3DO might have established itself as the future of gaming, since it released two years before the Playstation (in the West) and had the time to build up a reputation as the new cool innovative system (certainly more innovative and credible than its direct rival, the Jaguar). Such a missed opportunity.
The Phillips CD-I came out 2 years before the 3DO, it didn't have any luck either.
Honestly as soon as PS1 dropped 3DO looked like last generation. I don't think it was a war and if you had to compare it to a fight it would be a 1 punch knock out.
The thing was $700...there was no war.
3DO was supported by 3rd party’s like Crystal Dynamics & EA Sports, possibly Capcom
Im on team 3DO all day.. Playstation had many great games and was more powerful but I still love my 3DO more then PS1
Wait the 3DO actually had a chance against ps1 ?😵💫
3DO was first and had some seriously epic games
I'm here for Lady DickAid, but I can't help but notice the views are way down.
As a fan of gaming at the time, I saw the ads on TV and in magazines all the time, and read the reviews in those magazines. Knew that the 3DO didn't stand a chance once the PS hit it's stride. I was in the losing camp, as a Nintendo fan waiting for the release of the Ultra 64 and Disc Drive.
I mean, was there even any competition between the two? Maybe I was too young to see or understand, but I didn't even know anything about the 3DO until way later down the line. By that time the PS was the reigning champ during its generation. Honestly, the only reason I knew about the 3DO was because of that awesome port of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo.
I think the 3DO predated the PS1 by a bit, so there was some competition. But PS1 started off at a sprint and only went faster as the generation went on. 3DO, on the other hand, started off at a slow jog and got slower and wobblier as time went on.
I owned I'd 3DO... it was kind of a mid-generational console during the transition period between 2-D and 3-D gaming it. It was cool for the time, but then once the PS1 released, it became obsolete real quick. A similar fate met the Dreamcast and the turbo graphics 16 as well, technologically better than the last gen, but technically obsolete in comparison to it's next gen counterparts.
Wait until you also hear about the Phillips Cd-I from 2 years before the 3DO. They both failed the same way.
Wait until you get to hear the untold story of the sega Uranius and its obscure line of accessories 🍆designed for her necessity of gracious living 😮😬😏
there wasn't a 3DO PS1 war because 3DO didn't make mass adoption.
There was no console war between these two. That's click bait.
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Just because it was a lopsided war, with far more marketing budget on one side, doesn't mean it wasn't a console war to those who lived through the time and owned the machines.
Sony also benefitted from very unfair trade laws and somehow skirted the laws against "dumping", even though they sold PS1 at a large loss in the US, but not at a loss (or much less of a loss) in Japan. The PS1 *should* have cost more than the 3DO to purchase.