The point you miss was that SEGA was able to sell Mega Drive's and lead a market with out Tom? . It was big news that EA was onboard with 3DO and its old founder was behind the 3DO project, that was going to worry SEGA, never mind that EA already confirmed that some of its best Mega Drive titles like Madden, PGA Golf and Road Rash were coming to the 3DO. I don't go on myths but what was reported unlike you, do a little research. By mid 1994 just a lame 100,000 even Trip's hype couldn't cover it up and it was a format in trouble
Sorry bro but you're wrong and you're not disproving anything, you're trying to project your opinion in the past and that's not how it works.
You are also moving goal posts, without Tom and again, the Genesis wouldn't have been as big or as competitive even in Europe were it basically had no console competition yet didn't triple in sales until post Sonic and was selling slowly before then. no matter how much you hate Tom you can't deny reality and that's all you've been doing since the start of the conversation.
Sega still had EA games released on it as did other platforms, as did the new consoles, EA didn't have any games from EA made for the damn machine until Wing Commander and that's a fact, your opinion or what you want to believe is irrelevant. It took until the first price cut (which you ignored me mentioning multiple times conveniently) and an increase in sales form the games it had for EA and other third parties to start pushing software and that was exponential growth. No one was saying "3DO is dead) when it picked up on mid-1994 with a ton of games in the pipeline tripling sales figures going into 1995, it's best years with even more big games which led to Gex's release sweeping up the board. You clearly are not aware of how things played out at the time and instead are trying to project your ignorance to the past.
Just like acting like Atari Jaguar was dead by 1994 which doesn't make sense because it Launched in 1994, 1993 was a market test, and the 32X was already finished, Sega objectively had no way of knowing the 32x was a poor reaction, and if Sega knew about the 3DO, which they didn't, they would not have reacted to the Jaguar the way they did. 3Do approached Sega for a console, Sega said no, this happened, this has nothing to do with Sega talking with 3DO about the M2, a simple point you aren't able to mentally comprehend given your recent posts, Sega said No, 3DO had no demo's at the time it was mostly artificial hype even for the magazines until closer toward launch when companies said they were on board or would wait to see what would happen. The console launched at $500 or $700- for the complete package and by mid-1994 sold more than 100,000 units, but even if it did this wouldn't help your argument and would prove me right even more because then my point about the price cut and pickup and games, using your version of the story, would have meant the 3DO suddenly started selling 10X as much on hardware and maybe near triple that in software so either way the fact doesn't change that interest in the 3Do skyrocketed before the release in Japan, where it initially did well there as well the same year, 1994.
The issue is you know the 3DO only sold over a couple million consoles and it technically "failed' so you're using a tactic that the mentally deficient use where you use scattered information to paint a narrative of what happened in the past that didn't happen.
"Best month"
Everyone Increasing investments.
More interest from manufacturers an Atari damage control.
Literally at the "mid-1994 point you keep yapping about before the turn around and the software sales skyrocketed. 3Do has over 400 software titles btw. Sure it still never hit the "highly competitive" sales figures (neither did Saturn outside of japan, where in the US it didn't even do double 3DO's US LTD) and it "failed" but that doesn't mean everyone though it was "dead" at the time. it was "not" obvious it was "over" when everyone is rushing to capitalize on the "possible" potential of the machine which didn't actually come but how would they know until later?
All this though is irrelevant to the fact that this all started because you were and still are wrong about Toms influences to Sega's success despite your goal posts moves, you showing ignorance expanding the conversation further beyond your knowledge is well, dumb.