The Facts Regarding 3DO and PS3

The important ones anyway...

"Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration."

"For a significant period of the products life cycle, 3DO's official stance on pricing was that the 3DO was not a video game console, it was a high-end audio-visual system and was priced accordingly, so no price adjustment was needed."

Take that with a grain of salt as its from Wikipedia. Striking parallels, though.

ps3 is DOOMED!!!

but this logic fails, since sony has penetrated the industry, and has planted roots, many, but some of those are starting to loosen, the 3D0 was a new company and new attempt on their behalf, sony has already placed themselves on the map.snakeofsolid

The important ones anyway...

"Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration."

"For a significant period of the products life cycle, 3DO's official stance on pricing was that the 3DO was not a video game console, it was a high-end audio-visual system and was priced accordingly, so no price adjustment was needed."

Take that with a grain of salt as its from Wikipedia. Striking parallels, though.

gromit007

[QUOTE="gromit007"]

The important ones anyway...

"Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration."

"For a significant period of the products life cycle, 3DO's official stance on pricing was that the 3DO was not a video game console, it was a high-end audio-visual system and was priced accordingly, so no price adjustment was needed."

Take that with a grain of salt as its from Wikipedia. Striking parallels, though.

meischris39

but this logic fails, since sony has penetrated the industry, and has planted roots, many, but some of those are starting to loosen, the 3D0  was a new company and new attempt on their behalf, sony has already placed themselves on the map.snakeofsolid

By your reasoning, then; Sony has no chance as they have thrust the PS3 into a fertile market at a higher price-point than its competitors. One of those competitors (ironically) is itself. The PS2 sells very well still. Sony cannot win in this market with the PS3 going against the (cheaper) Wii, PS2, and 360.

[QUOTE="gromit007"]

The important ones anyway...

"Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration."

"For a significant period of the products life cycle, 3DO's official stance on pricing was that the 3DO was not a video game console, it was a high-end audio-visual system and was priced accordingly, so no price adjustment was needed."

Take that with a grain of salt as its from Wikipedia. Striking parallels, though.

meischris39

But overall, it seems this generation is one of change and the Wii and 360 are the beneficiaries of this new fortune.Kizzle28

but this logic fails, since sony has penetrated the industry, and has planted roots, many, but some of those are starting to loosen, the 3D0  was a new company and new attempt on their behalf, sony has already placed themselves on the map.snakeofsolid

$699 would be like paying a grand today at least. And for what exactly ? I don't remember any games for that system other than that craptacular Zelda game.

I could probably list 20 reasons why the 3do failed and why the ps3 won't but I am sure it is pretty obvious to 95% of the people here so I won't bother.



Nike_Air

To me, the PS3 is not like the 3DO.

The PS3 (Cell media processor + Blue-Ray) is more a next-gen version of the NUON. 

Unlike Nuon, PS3 can play games well enough to succeed.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon

[QUOTE="Nike_Air"]$699 would be like paying a grand today at least. And for what exactly ? I don't remember any games for that system other than that craptacular Zelda game.

I could probably list 20 reasons why the 3do failed and why the ps3 won't but I am sure it is pretty obvious to 95% of the people here so I won't bother.



TekkenMaster606

but this logic fails, since sony has penetrated the industry, and has planted roots, many, but some of those are starting to loosen, the 3D0 was a new company and new attempt on their behalf, sony has already placed themselves on the map.snakeofsolid