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Interesting! My vague recollection (as a kid at the time) was that the 3DO really did deliver some impressive stuff but just at a very high price. Of course by
by ido 3y ago
Interesting! My vague recollection (as a kid at the time) was that the 3DO really did deliver some impressive stuff but just at a very high price. Of course by the time the Playstation was released it was game over for 3do (and Atari, and Sega).
- bsenftner 3y agoI worked on the PlayStation OS too. Very different everything. I was Sony Computer Entertainment's first software engineer hire, promptly sent to Tokyo to help finish the system.
- ido 3y agoWhat were the main things that stood out to you as different?
- bsenftner 3y agoProfessionalism; EA was basically modeled after rock bands as programmer teams back then. Sony was creating a series of international divisions and appointing star people from other divisions with their own new division, dubbed Sony Computer Entertainment of [Country Name], and an entire campus to run. Their attitude was game developers were tough and critical and needed to be won over, while EA's attitude was game developers were gamers who code and can be satisfied by a pizza party.