Originally Posted by Bojay1997 Originally Posted by

This is just a bunch of absurd speculation. If you know anything about Sega's arcade division, you know that they collaborated with Real 3D before and after it was spun off from Lockheed Martin and that Real 3D helped design the Model 2 and 3 among other arcade boards. The R3D/100 was indeed very powerful, but ultimately, they couldn't get the cost down to an acceptable consumer device level. In fact, at launch, it was only aimed at the high end workstation and CAD market where it was no problem for the chip to run hundreds of dollars. I suppose Sega could have decided to follow the 3do model and launch a $700 system, but nobody would have bought it. At any given time, there are significant leaps in technology available to console designers, but the cost of making those leaps make them impractical. In fact, one of the reasons Microsoft lost so much money on the original Xbox is that they essentially built the original Xbox around a graphics board which was still on the cutting edge for PCs at the time of launch. There is no way the R3D/100 could have been scaled down to an acceptable price level in time for Saturn launch and frankly, that's why Sega dropped it.