[quote name='king9x']I was doing a lot of drugs back then, but I'm almost certain the 3DO was $699 for the console alone. Not sure why you saw it as the 'poor man's playstation', that makes no sense to me.
What are you going to say next? Way of the Warrior controlled awesome? Or maybe Mortal Kombat was a poor man's Way of the Warrior?
I played that game all the time, the White Zombie soundtrack made everything better.
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The 3DO was expensive at launch, but prices fell sharply after 1996. I bought my 3DO at Best Buy for $89 in late 1996 as the system was being discontinued. The Sony Playstation was $300 at the time. I could not afford a $300 console, but I could afford an $89 console.
At lanuch, the 3DO was anything but a poor man's console. However, after the console was discontinued and retaliers were liquidating the 3DO while Playstation was in it's infancy stage, the 3DO was considerably cheaper than the Playstation. When the 3DO reached a bottom price of $89, the Sony Playstation was $300 and Sega Saturn were $400. An $89 3DO that played many Playstation and Saturn games (Gex, Road Rash, Need for Speed, and more) was a cheap way to play many of the games selling for $50 to $60 on Playstation or Saturn. By this time, it was a 'poor man's Playstation'.
The 3DO was $699 at launch, but it did not stay $699 for long. After the Playstation and Saturn hit the scene, prices dropped like a rock.