WOW! I can't believe the misinformation here. This is in no reflection against you guys, but I have to set things straight.
You don't have to be born in the 1950's to have heard of a game console released in the 1990's. A lot of people get into video games before they hit 40 years old.
Competitors. There were none around the time of the Jaguar's release except the 3DO. The SNES and Genesis were on their way out, dirt cheap, big older game selection. Comparing them to the Jaguar is like comparing the NES to a SNES when the SNES came out. It was more expensive, less games, but newer technology.
Failed? No, if the only competition was the 3DO, then no. My friends and I collected ALL systems because we were into games and programming. Our 3DO would reset in the middle of a newer game, took forever to load (ran out of memory I think), choppy motion and took forever to load (not much of a CD buffering system unlike the Saturn etc). I had about 50+ games on the 3DO and only around 30+ on my Jaguars, guess which were actually playable? Which were also the ones played on a regular basis.
$200.00 games. Games on the Jaguar were about the same price as a lot of consoles since the early 1980's. I paid between $50 for AvP when it was a new release.
My Jaguar consoles brand new were $250.00 around its release. My 3DO was $700.00. The games on both systems were comparable in price.
The Atari 2600 and Colecovision competed, next the NES, Turbo Graphics, Sega Master System etc, then the SNES and Genesis were in reign, the short lived Jaguar vs 3DO, then Sega Saturn vs Playstation.
Failed 2. I've known too many Jaguar developers/programmers who made a name for themselves from developing on that system. Jaguar dev kits are STILL being sold, upgraded, over clocked, etc. Games and Graphics Demos are still being released! If it failed, somebody needs to let everyone know :-P
Finally, this does look like a bathroom scale, and the Jag+CD looks like a toilet :-(
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WOW! I can't believe the misinformation here. This is in no reflection against you guys, but I have to set things straight.
You don't have to be born in the 1950's to have heard of a game console released in the 1990's. A lot of people get into video games before they hit 40 years old.
Competitors. There were none around the time of the Jaguar's release except the 3DO. The SNES and Genesis were on their way out, dirt cheap, big older game selection. Comparing them to the Jaguar is like comparing the NES to a SNES when the SNES came out. It was more expensive, less games, but newer technology.
Failed? No, if the only competition was the 3DO, then no. My friends and I collected ALL systems because we were into games and programming. Our 3DO would reset in the middle of a newer game, took forever to load (ran out of memory I think), choppy motion and took forever to load (not much of a CD buffering system unlike the Saturn etc). I had about 50+ games on the 3DO and only around 30+ on my Jaguars, guess which were actually playable? Which were also the ones played on a regular basis.
$200.00 games. Games on the Jaguar were about the same price as a lot of consoles since the early 1980's. I paid between $50 for AvP when it was a new release.
My Jaguar consoles brand new were $250.00 around its release. My 3DO was $700.00. The games on both systems were comparable in price.
The Atari 2600 and Colecovision competed, next the NES, Turbo Graphics, Sega Master System etc, then the SNES and Genesis were in reign, the short lived Jaguar vs 3DO, then Sega Saturn vs Playstation.
Failed 2. I've known too many Jaguar developers/programmers who made a name for themselves from developing on that system. Jaguar dev kits are STILL being sold, upgraded, over clocked, etc. Games and Graphics Demos are still being released! If it failed, somebody needs to let everyone know :-P
Finally, this does look like a bathroom scale, and the Jag+CD looks like a toilet :-(