OhNoDangerItsaPentagonRun
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There comes a point where you should have felt compelled to go along with the general consensus, and that time was probably 50+ posts ago.
Are you trying to say that the jaguars memory bus can be easily saturated by the 68000?
I looked through the technical docs for the Jaguar and it says
So under normal operation the GPU and DSP have higher priority access to the memory bus than the 68000, and should not be bandwidth constrained by the CPU.
Also execution of code on the RISC cores is much faster from their cache than from main RAM (just like most CPU's) in the Jaguar technical manual this is described as:
This means that even in some cases where the 68000 could saturate the bus, the RISC cores can keep on trucking, and is the preferred way anyway due to GPU/DSP bugs that can occur when trying to execute from main RAM after conditionals.
sources:
Jaguar Technical Manual
AtariAge post discussing the issue
ON paper and IN action are two different things and Atari devs will say that to you very bluntly.
What's interesting is that AVP did save the Jaguar for a couple more years and got people to look at other games to 4x it's sales from where it was before, which was a decent launch then a very rapid drop.
Bubsy 3 sold well to, at first, but I think that may have been an effect by AvP.
Japan was not needed. The 3do sold millions despite it's mistakes. The best selling Genesis games over all in the U.S. were not japanese games and sold 3x the millions.3Do had quite good support because of the CD storage costing less.
Still, it was mainly a Xbox-style console with heavy PC/western support and mostly nothing from Japan. Problem, that was a time where japan was way bigger than now.
Most games were reviewed in PC-centric magazine and heavily criticized as "not-console-games' in console oriented mags in Europe for example.
Problem also is beyond te early push of western devs, only Crystal Dynamics and 3DO were producing games, when the news about Sony started to appear.
Japan was not as big as people think they were back then. Pretty much most relevant consoles for the U.S. and majority Europe to a lesser extend, outside Nintendo consoles (outside the possibility of the U.S. N64) all had a majority western best selling games.
Also the 3DO has a 400 game library, I am pretty sure it has plenty of people producing games. Also Sony was a Question Mark until late 1996. People were more excited for the Ultra 64, which was getting less hype because it kept getting delayed.