Seriously Switch is pretty damn expensive for what u get back in tech.
The 3DO had some great tech in it. So did the Atari Jaguar and the NeoGeo and the TurboGrafx. You know what they didn't have? A solid library of fun games.
Anyone who sees more value in processor speeds, pixel counts and bullshit stats like how many million polygons per second rather than user experience and software library is a fool.
3DO, Neo Geo, and Turbo definitely had a number of great games, maybe not as many as the Genesis/SNES, but there are numerous exclusives worth owning for all 3 (even more if you don't mind the import scene/have deep pockets). Jag kinda sucks though.
NeoGeo? Turbo? Absolutely. 3DO? I dunno about that. Most of the library is crap, IMO, and what's good are on other platforms.
Definitely agree that a lot got ported to other platforms, but 3DO isn't nearly as bad as a lot of people think.
You have a nice summation of what was going on in the early 90's PC game scene (Star Control 2, Theme Park, The Incredible Machine, Myst, 7th Guest, Alone in the Dark) without having to spend about $2k on a PC and then fiddle around with shit like IRQ requests and virtual memory management just to get them to run, some decent fighting game ports (the only system to have SSF2 Turbo back in the day!), some funny but shitty jank (Jurassic Park, Way of the Warrior), a few decent RPGs from MicroCabin, and of course the best Road Rash game ever. I mean I don't think it's comparable to the Neo Geo or Turbo in quality, but its lineup shits all over the Jag, 32x, CDI, CD-32, and lots of other "failed" systems from that era.
I dunno- the 32X had good arcade ports in Afterburner, Virtua Racing Deluxe, Space Harrier, Star Wars Arcade, and Virtua Fighter, plus the port of Doom on 32X shits all over the 3DO performance-wise. Then it had some good multiplatform ports like Blackthorne, Mortal Kombat II, NBA Jam TE, Tempo, and Toughman Contest. I'd take that line-up over the 3DO any day. The Jaguar sucked, but it did have Tempest 2000. Nothing original on the 3DO even comes close to that (but I'd still take a 3DO over a Jag for sure).
The only thing I wanted at the time on the 3DO was SSF2T. I owned a console and the game very briefly and was put off by the shitty controllers it had- was using some six button ones and they sucked. Then SF Collection came out on Saturn and PS1 and I got rid of it.
SSF2T wasn't even the only way to play SSF2T at home for that long, BTW- it came out at the end of 1994 on 3DO and there was a PC port by Gametek released in May 1995. Obviously quality is another story though, lol.
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CD-I and CD-32 aren't even worth mentioning!
