Any one here work with the 3DO/m2 or Jaguar?
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There was someone here at the forum that linked too a page with very good information on these older system´s.
Evil_Cloud
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Darkwatchers, no?
who do you work for ERP?
Where those designed to be arcade board dev kits?
Was the M2 going to be directly marketed to the general public?
Do you happen to know the development team behind the hardware?
here is another good link
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/index.html
Where those designed to be arcade board dev kits?
Was the M2 going to be directly marketed to the general public?
Do you happen to know the development team behind the hardware?
here is another good link
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/index.html
http://assembler.roarvgm.com/Panasonic_m2/panasonic_m2.html
Not bad at all. When was it supposed to come out ? 1996-1997?
edit: bugger their anti-pic-leeching-code :?
Not bad at all. When was it supposed to come out ? 1996-1997?
edit: bugger their anti-pic-leeching-code :?
At the time I worked for Boss Game, I work elsewhere now.Legion said:
Nope, the M2 was originally supposed to compete with N64 and PSX. What ended up killing the platform was the complete limbo that developers were left in during the original negotiations with Matsushita and then the lack of communication after the deal went through.
Not personally.
You assume right..... M2 was in limbo for so long because it was going to be released a litle late into the war between Sony, Nintendo and Sega. and they knew the hardware wouldn't be able to compete with what is now the PS2, Gamecube and Dreamcast hardware wise when the time came.
The hardware pushed around 1 million polygons per second with some fancy new effects.....I tried finding specifics in my Next Generation magazine, but couldn't really find anything....although I could swear they listed the capabilities in one of the magazines.
The hardware pushed around 1 million polygons per second with some fancy new effects.....I tried finding specifics in my Next Generation magazine, but couldn't really find anything....although I could swear they listed the capabilities in one of the magazines.
Legion said:
3DO designed the M2, Matsushita bought it.
It was considerably more powerful than either N64 or PSX, both in feature set and in performance. The rasteriser in particular was very powerful for it's time. I remember someone at 3DO saying that they had bought into the N64 hype (Reality Engine level graphics and all that) and had designed the box to compete with the hype not the final product.
The negotiations with Matsushita took a long time and pretty much all info to developers stopped flowing during them. As a result most stopped development. After the Matsushita deal, it was like there was no plan. It always struck me that perhaps Matsushita thought it would be a good idea to try and compete with Sony, but once they had the hardware they didn't really have a plan in place to do it. I believe that the hardware did eventually limp out in POS displays.
Tagrineth said:wazoo said:
3DO wasn't "too little too late"... unless you count coming out a year before Saturn as "too late".
3DO's problem was the price tag. $700 was the initial asking price for both the Panasonic FZ-1 and the Goldstar unit.
I think he was referring to M2, not the original. However, that said, I don't think it was too little, too late. I remember alot of hype being built up around that system. It would have predated Dreamcast by about 2 years, and so it would have had more than enough time to get ites feet off the ground. Oh well, another "coulda, woulda, shoulda"...
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