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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
But the 3DO didn't take off, because it was too expensive and didn't have enough backers.
Even without being compared to the PlayStation, the 3DO wasn't that great.
Commodore, had they survived, could have built on their success with the CD32 by putting Hombre (or something like it) in the next model. Another possibility might be an upgrade for the CD32 via the FMV slot.
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It was only really expensive in 1993, by early 1994 other models came out at $399 and then $299 later on when sales would have pushed through, of course the PSX hype train stopped that, but don’t forget this is the alternate reality here where people didn’t hold out for this exciting new fangled Sony thing.
The 3DO was the single biggest leap in games consoles, i’m not sure how anyone can say it wasn’t that great, in what regards does the hardware disappoint you? (ignoring the PSX and Saturn, this is 1993 btw).
Commodore had plans for the CD64 (Hombre based) for late 1995, yet they also had plans for an upgraded CD32 in late 1994 with an 030/28 and 32k nvram, but still had the same slow 2mb chip ram.