Atari Jaguar question

Me and a friend were talking about consoles in the 90s. Then a question popped in my head about the jaguar. What if there was nothing wrong with the hardware itself. The jaguar just had horrible developers making their games? The jaguar may or may not have reached its potential. thoughts?

Me and a friend were talking about consoles in the 90s. Then a question popped in my head about the jaguar. What if there was nothing wrong with the hardware itself. The jaguar just had horrible developers making their games? The jaguar may or may not have reached its potential. thoughts?

ail_taco

The Atari Jaguar was released at a time in 1993. When the 32-bit generation was looming. Panasonic 3DO interactive 32-bit CD Rom console. Sony Playstation 32-bit console was yet to be released. Sega Saturn another 32-bit CD Rom console was waiting in the wings. Philips CDi 32 bit CD Rom console was coming soon. The 24-bit SNK NEO GEO was offering arcade perfect gaming at home. abeit at $699.99 with no pack in games. The cartridges cost $199.99. The earliest stirrings of the Apple Pippen another 32-Bit CD-Rom console. NEC were continuing with the SuperGraphix console and the TurboDuo.

The reign of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System VS The Sega Genesis. The first console war was going strong. With Sega CD debuting and the then coming SNES CD ROM Nintendo Play- Station was supposed to be coming to complete with Sega CD and NEC Turbo CD-Rom player.

Atari Jaguar was not to be outdone by the then coming Releases of many 32-bit CD based consoles. By big name electronic companies Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Apple, NEC , SNK, Sega and Nintendo.

So Atari released the 64-bit Atari Jaguar which they promoted doing the math of adding two 32-bit CPU's Tom and 32-bit CPU Jerry together to get a staggering 64-bits of power. Outdoing the upcoming 32-bit consoles as well as the existing 24-bit SNK Neo Geo and the 16-Bit Nintendo SNES and SEGA Megadrive/Genesis.

So Atari was just one of 9 companies producing gaming consoles. So they tried to go big at the dawn of the 5th generation of videogames. But in a very crowded market with lots of upcoming powerful consoles delivering mulitmedia experinces. The avdent of 3D gaming and games being produced on CD-Rom instead of Cartridges. 

The Atari Jaguar didn't quite live up to it's 64-bit promise. Plus with some many companies promising the next generation in gaming. The transition from 2D to 3D gameplay. The transition from Cartridges to CD-Rom. Plus the more bits your machine had the more powerful it was.

Atari Jaguar got lost in the shuffle. 

The Atari Jaguar was released at a time in 1993. When the 32-bit generation was looming. Panasonic 3DO interactive 32-bit CD Rom console. Sony Playstation 32-bit console was yet to be released. Sega Saturn another 32-bit CD Rom console was waiting in the wings. Philips CDi 32 bit CD Rom console was coming soon. The 24-bit SNK NEO GEO was offering arcade perfect gaming at home. abeit at $699.99 with no pack in games. The cartridges cost $199.99. The earliest stirrings of the Apple Pippen another 32-Bit CD-Rom console. NEC were continuing with the SuperGraphix console and the TurboDuo.

The reign of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System VS The Sega Genesis. The first console war was going strong. With Sega CD debuting and the then coming SNES CD ROM Nintendo Play- Station was supposed to be coming to complete with Sega CD and NEC Turbo CD-Rom player.

Atari Jaguar was not to be outdone by the then coming Releases of many 32-bit CD based consoles. By big name electronic companies Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Apple, NEC , SNK, Sega and Nintendo.

So Atari released the 64-bit Atari Jaguar which they promoted doing the math of adding two 32-bit CPU's Tom and 32-bit CPU Jerry together to get a staggering 64-bits of power. Outdoing the upcoming 32-bit consoles as well as the existing 24-bit SNK Neo Geo and the 16-Bit Nintendo SNES and SEGA Megadrive/Genesis.

So Atari was just one of 9 companies producing gaming consoles. So they tried to go big at the dawn of the 5th generation of videogames. But in a very crowded market with lots of upcoming powerful consoles delivering mulitmedia experinces. The avdent of 3D gaming and games being produced on CD-Rom instead of Cartridges. 

The Atari Jaguar didn't quite live up to it's 64-bit promise. Plus with some many companies promising the next generation in gaming. The transition from 2D to 3D gameplay. The transition from Cartridges to CD-Rom. Plus the more bits your machine had the more powerful it was.

Atari Jaguar got lost in the shuffle. 

Megavideogamer

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Me and a friend were talking about consoles in the 90s. Then a question popped in my head about the jaguar. What if there was nothing wrong with the hardware itself. The jaguar just had horrible developers making their games? The jaguar may or may not have reached its potential. thoughts?

NationProtector

[QUOTE="NationProtector"][QUOTE="ail_taco"]

Me and a friend were talking about consoles in the 90s. Then a question popped in my head about the jaguar. What if there was nothing wrong with the hardware itself. The jaguar just had horrible developers making their games? The jaguar may or may not have reached its potential. thoughts?

AlexKidd5000

[QUOTE="NationProtector"][QUOTE="ail_taco"]

Me and a friend were talking about consoles in the 90s. Then a question popped in my head about the jaguar. What if there was nothing wrong with the hardware itself. The jaguar just had horrible developers making their games? The jaguar may or may not have reached its potential. thoughts?

AlexKidd5000

It would probably look like Bubsy 3D on the Jag.

[QUOTE="AlexKidd5000"][QUOTE="NationProtector"] You are half right, Atari devs originally were going to make a 32bit system that programmers were making games for, they cancelled that to focus on the Jaguar because of 3D tech, so the Jaguar dev kits were actually partially not even Jaguar dev kits. The 2D portion actually ended up being worse, and everyone had to make 3D games from scratch on the current Dev kits. If a developer had enough time, yes, it would have had much better graphics. Look at Alien Vs. Predator, Battlemorph etc. Some fan ports are being made to see if it can run Mario 64. BTW, anyone else find it dumb that instead of focusing on fixing the dev kits the suits wanted them to make a CD add-on for an install base that was like 300,00?nameless12345

It would probably look like Bubsy 3D on the Jag.

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[QUOTE="AlexKidd5000"] There any info on that mario 64 port?NationProtector

It would probably look like Bubsy 3D on the Jag.

It would have less textures and geometry, that's for sure.

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It would probably look like Bubsy 3D on the Jag.

nameless12345

It would have less textures and geometry, that's for sure.

I remember calling the Atari customer line in 1995 and asking if there was a point in buying the Jaguar. I was assured that the Jaguar was awesome and in no danger of going anywhere. Mmhmm.ItsEvolution

This just goes to show you never trust customer lines haha