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Message: [QUOTE="Ferik, post: 249618, member: 9097"] I think the 32X was just the best they could do at the price point they wanted to target with the tools that they had. The Jaguar's main chips were entirely bespoke and designed entirely around the goals of the Jaguar. Sega of America more or less built the 32X with off the shelf parts tapping into the lower binned SH2 chips Sega of Japan rejected for the Saturn. They were flying solo without Sega of Japan's muscle so they didn't have the resources to make a custom chipset like the Jag (or the Saturn's VDP chips). It ended up weaker than the Jag, but I don't think they knew that it would be until the design was finalized, and even then the Jag's performance was much harder to pin down back in the day due to how complicated it was so it'd be hard to tell just how behind they were. The Saturn does have a few disadvantages in 2D compared to the Playstation, namely in how flexible and easy to program the transparency effects are, and the fact that the workload needs to be correctly split between the two VDPs, but yeah it's generally the strongest. The problem is nobody cared in 1995. 2D was old news, 3D is what mattered most, and the Saturn was worse at 3D. There's a reason the N64 has like 4 2D games and 3 of them are fighters. Being the best at 2D simply didn't matter. 3DO vs Jaguar is an interesting one. Going purely by specs it's a mixed bag, but the interesting thing is the 3DO required all games to be programed in a higher level language than other consoles because it was a media standard, not a specific piece of hardware, so coding in raw machine code or assembly could cause issues between the different machines (Panasonic, LG, and Sanyo all had their own 3DO consoles) and unfortunately that language slowed the machines down quite a lot. However, the 3DO did have hardware accelerated 3D, while the Jag had software 3D aided by a few specific extra CPU commands, and that was ultimately the deciding factor that pushes the 3DO ahead in 3D games. In 2D games the Jag had similar if not more potential, but it was rarely utilized due to how complicated the machine was. [/QUOTE]

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