3DO M2 Tech Demo

A promotional video showing off some of the techinical capabilities of the M2. No sound, sadly.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• 3DO
• M2
• Panasonic

[DasFresh]

saturn not that great? the saturn is arguably the best system for 2d fighters ever built. almost Every single saturn 2d fighter was an arcade perfect port.

[airraideagle]

True.

People who say that M2 was close to Dreamcast performance are way, WAY off. The Dreamcast was at least TEN TIMES more powerful than M2.

When comparing M2 to N64 and to Dreamcast, M2 is closer to N64 than Dreamcast, even though M2 was around twice as powerful as N64. Does that make sense.

[sameasabove]

RETURN FIRE!!

[damnittwice]

After this 3DO decided to make all those army men games that everyone loves....what do you mean nobody played them?

[GarthMcCreery]

@airraideagle more like 2-4 times more powerful 

[XcXtrippyXcX]

@whiteguysamurai That's false, compare that prototype to the PSX's ICO prototype, the Ico prototype looks better (even apart from the PR Cutscenes)

Although the saturn had two CPU's, they shared the same Memory Buffer which means that only one of them could process data at a time which almost renders the whole purpose of having two CPU's pointless if you ask me, any difference in processing power would be slight at best and only using assembly would you be able to reach such optimization.

[SlapAttackGames]

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

[whiteguysamurai]

@barlog20 The Sega Saturn was a great deal more powerful than the playstation, as was evident by the Shenmue prototype. But that power was very hard to coax out of the Saturn.

[barlog20]

@DasFresh:That`s a lie.I have the saturn and most of its 2d fighters was not Perfect ports but they were close perfect ports though.

[nooblet911]

I actually disagree. most would say that the 16 bit era was the most exciting period in gaming and I almost agree with that

[TheGamerClubber]

Is this for real? It doesn't real show M2 power. I remember that a DINO fighting with a woman was also part of the video showing M2 power. I'm extremely sad it didn't come out, cause 3DO was very fun with some cool & inovative games like SHOCK WAVE, GEX, THE HORDE, CAPTAIN QUAZAR, NEED FOR SPEED & so many more. So sad Sony took of Panasonic from competition. Later Dreamcast came & who took him out of competition? SONY again, with PS2...DAMN SONY...I have PS3, by the way and still have my 3DO.

[VoidKeeper]

I certainly prefer the Saturn for arcade or arcade style titles, that's for sure, shadows over mystara is awesome, even if it needs the ram adapter.