What happen between 1994 and 2001?

[Batsute]

Hold up, I got some receipts

3DO actually had a fairly sizable player base (700,000 in 1995 with 300,000 of them being in the US) despite being a fairly shytty console, mainly because it launched in 1993 back when the genesis & snes were it's only real competition and had a huge hype campaign prior to launch.

Spoiler: Next Generation magazine article about the 3DO (1995)

3DO had also launched the M2 model around this time, which was considered to be a huge upgrade across all fronts and was very well received. Hell, people were even saying the M2 was a Playstation killer at the time

Spoiler: Next Generation magazine article about the 3DO M2 addon (1995)

SNK was also considered a legitimate contender back then, although the price was pretty high even by the 90s standards, which locked a bunch of people out as well as it's adherance to 2D sprites instead of 3D. But the huge advantage was that it was pushing the whole "Arcade perfect" experience, which at the time you couldn't get.

Spoiler: Next Generation magazine article about the Neo Geo CD (1995)

Atari was still in the game at this point, doing their Jaguar thing. people used to call it the "toilet" due to it's shape, but it was still around and had about 150,000 sales in the US by 1995, Despite the company hemorrhaging money left and right. As you can see in the article, people were speculating that Atari was on their way out the door in 1995.

Spoiler: Next Generation magazine article about the Atari Jaguar (1995)

3DO Stans

 

[Jonah]

3DO Stans

3DO was pretty weird as a console, japan had a cult following around it for whatever reason.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Nah, you got it all wrong. It's all because Sony bought Pysgnosis and installed FUD across the console market. Word to @The Mad Titan.

This playing the victim shyt by Xbuffoons is getting out of hand.

 

[Black_Jesus]

The PS2 happened

 

[Wild self]

Greed.

Now Sony wants to be the only console manufacturers in the market and want to charge $1200 consoles.

 

[parallax]

actually, Microsoft created the MSX (1983) & MSX2 (1985) which was a competitor to the Commodore 64, Famicom & ZX-Spectrum

MSX - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lots of well known games got their start on the MSX, such as Metal Gear & Bomberman.

There's a whole bunch of konami classics that ran on the msx. I'm surprised s
Microsoft and konami haven't had some sort of exclusivity team up

 

[AStrangeName]

depends on the market, Nintendo had SEGA's card in North America, but outside of that SEGA was bullying nintendo in south america & europe. In japan I want to say the market was more split, with Nintendo having a bit of an edge over sega.

Their rivalry has been discussed many times, but they both were really squabbling with each other and gave people great games at the same time

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

It was always two main popular consoles per generation with a bunch of garbo no one had but that ‘one kid down the street’ thrown in. Ever since the mid 2000’s is when three consoles became viable.

There was never some grand tasters choice of gaming consoles in the 80’s and 90’s it was basically nintendo strong arming the market with sega picking up the scraps. The console race, right now is closer than it ever was back then.

The fact that Nintendo and Sony can both sell over 100 million consoles per generation is proof of that

Nintendo has played it smart.

They were the Alpha dog but realized they'd never be able to keep up trying to play Sony's game. Instead of competing directly, they found their own lane.

Most folks will have either Xbox/Sony/PC but then also have a Switch. Switch is the designated #2 option with no real competition and then you buy another console or computer for your #1 main system.

MS had a huge advantage with 360 (lower price, came out first, easier to develop for) but it feels like they've been chasing that success for the last 12 years. May have given them a false sense of security thinking they were closer to #1 than #3.

 

[NZA]

the 3D graphics transition and the entrance of microsoft were the nail in the coffin of poorly run companies.

in this same amount of time, sega alone released 32X, saturn and dreamcast. that type of behavior is unsustainable

atari and commodore were broke

NEC, fujitsu, and 3DO/panasonic needed to focus on their other products they were more competent at

SNK needed to make the transition to full-time 3rd party developer. they treated arcade hardware as a means to an end and didnt have a proper home console business with competitive price points. once arcades were dying and games were becoming more complicated 3D experiences, they needed to restructure the whole company.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Equate hardware failures to publisher acquisitions, Xbrehs.

Yea.. that was throwing me off, but I guess anything goes in the war of stans.

 

[THE 101]

This forum needs to be deleted

 

[DrBanneker]

A lot of facts in this thread. Nintendo and Sega ran the 90s basically. The most competitive time was probably late 80s when Atari 7200, Commodore 64, NES, and MS-DOS games were together though NES was clearly dominant. Amiga was still kinda there too.

Once arcades died I wonder if rising game production costs meant publishers would bush any console under a certain user base accelerating consolidation.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Equate hardware failures to publisher acquisitions, Xbrehs.

New cope

 

[MrLogic]

It’s called everyone but Big N was str8 trash until Sony


that’s what happened

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It’s called everyone but Big N was str8 trash until Sony


that’s what happened

/the end