The Story of the Panasonic 3DO M2 - The Unreleased 3DO Sequel Console - Gaming History Documentary

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In today's video we look at the history of the Panasonic 3DO M2, the lost sequel console to the original 3DO. In this content we look at the story behind this system and why it was ultimately shelved.
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3DO M2 1996 - 1997 IMSA Racing / Beta
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• Ironblood - 3DO M2 - V...
Ironblood - 3DO M2 - Video Game Esoterica
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• Should You Buy a 3DO M...
Should You Buy a 3DO M2? - Advice and Tips
Video Game Esoterica
• RJ Mical and Dave Need...
RJ Mical and Dave Needle at Amiga 30th in California
BIOSJERBIL
• Electronics Entertainm...
Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) 1995
Brian Peek
• 3DO / M2 - E3 1995 - ...
3DO / M2 - E3 1995 - Press Conference - Westin Bonaventure Hotel - 2 of 2
3DO / M2 - E3 1995 - Press Conference - Westin Bonaventure Hotel - 1 of 2
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DVD Player Swallows a Disc
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• 30 minutes of E3 1996
30 minutes of E3 1996
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• Electronics Entertainm...
Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) 1996
Brian Peek
• [PREVIEW] PS1 - Battle...
[PREVIEW] PS1 - BattleSport (HD, 60FPS)
Kawaii Games
• IMSA Racing Let's Play...
IMSA Racing Let's Play - 3DO M2 - Video Game Esoterica - EP 10.1
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@ceres4881 3 года назад

In the 90' console's magazines were my food, and i was more interested into reading about the new upcoming hardware than the games. Any month there was some new rumors and i remember i used to read articles over and over again looking for some info i could have missed. It truly was another another life, another world eh

@edhc44 3 года назад

A simpler world of which I fondly remember, and deeply miss

@MrCumstein 3 года назад

I was the same way. Every month I would eagerly wait for the new EGM, NextGen and Game Pro to arrive in the mail. I still have every single issue of those magazines I bought. I never threw one away.

@donstarlancer 3 года назад

Oh yea. When I was little my dad would grab me copies of GamePro. When I got older I got EGM. Those mags were absolute treasures and I wish I still had more copies today. Oh and I also use to love Diehard Game Fan as well. Such simpler times.

@MrCumstein 3 года назад

I really do miss those times. Nowadays the only magazine I even bother reading occasionally is Retro Gamer, in pdf format. It's just not the same.

@hibern81 3 года назад

Same here. This shit is like crack for kids.

@donstarlancer 3 года назад

Man this was so nostalgic. My dad was actually one of the few to buy a 3DO.Some of the games were cool but even then I felt like something was off about it. He would try to convince me that Way of the Warrior was better than my SNES copy of Mortal Kombat. 😄 I remember him going on and on about the upcoming M2. This was such a weird period in gaming.

@chrisd6287 3 года назад

I just have to say this Lady is killin it! Loving these mini docs about obscure consoles/prototypes 💙

@spliffnotes8359 2 года назад

I (admittedly and embarrassingly) totally misread this chick when I first found this page. Her docs are awesome, writing is tight and this is one of the best channels I've stumbled in in recent years. I watch these everyday

@cemsengul16 2 года назад

I also love watching videos about obscure tech way too much. I guess I can't get out of the past.

@MaxAbramson3 Год назад

Lady Decade is the lady of the decade. AN4GL!

@dirtmerchant4718 3 года назад

I was excited about the M2 back in the day. I remember the early demos looking very impressive. I was totally bummed finding out Panasonic ditched the project. Somewhere in one of these multiverses it was released :-)

@Valthonis 3 года назад

Same, I remember seeing that dinosaur demo and thinking "this is it!" and then nothing.

@MrCarpediem6 3 года назад

Me too.. After ps1 the 3d0 was my go to

@npwarr2651 Год назад

Me too. Was a big 3do fan but the library was way behind PS

@brettdulaney697 3 года назад

I remember hearing about this a lot in egm back in the day, but I got Saturn and was extremely satisfied

@zimzam9166 3 года назад

Pfft keep telling yourself that

@Riz2336 3 года назад

Jeez the original 3DO was expensive enough when it came out I can't imagine what they were going to charge people for this thing if it had been released

@artemusprine 3 месяца назад

Factor in the controllers, case, and packaging, and it had been just about enough time for them to put M2 out at a similar price.

@bigt4135 3 года назад

I wanted this thing so bad back in the day. I remember seeing the tech demo and being blown away.

@ukkev7290 3 года назад

Just before the launch of the PlayStation (Sept. 9th 1995) in the US, the 3DO was the biggest selling 32/64 bit console in the US. Then 3DO announced that the 3DO console would no longer be upgradable to the M2. They said the M2 needed a 4x speed CD-drive. The 3DO only had a 2x speed drive. No one was going to spend $300 on a console that was going to be replaced the following year. Following the announcement, 3DO sales virtually stopped.

@Redhotsmasher 3 года назад

So they basically Sega Saturned themselves? GGWP lol.

@ukkev7290 3 года назад

@@Redhotsmasher Yes. A lot of crazy decisions were made during the 5th gen.

@vincentpistoia9034 3 года назад

As a kid in the US I've literally never heard of or ever seen a 3do all I remember was PlayStation n64 and Saturn and there was barley any coverage of the Saturn.

@ukkev7290 3 года назад

@@vincentpistoia9034 The 5th gen didn't really take off until 1997. (The SNES was the biggest selling console of 1996.) By then, the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were the only 5th gen consoles selling in any numbers.

@dsj66u 3 года назад

It's always nice to have a look at back at the past and see what we could have had all bits that were released that we missed

@Coolremac 3 года назад

I enjoy learning about consoles that were never released.

@dodgydruid 3 года назад

I remember some of the furore over this as there was major complaints via the developer houses that the SDK's were heinously priced and Panasonic lost a heck of a lot of potential software developers due to its seen inherent greed. This wasn't the first time in gaming world we heard about the problems of getting gouged on the SDK and couple that with the incredible cost of your graphical development machine it meant the lower end and more vibrant houses simply didn't enter the race as they could not compete with the large conglomerates and so many a game that could have been never was because of platform idiocy by the technology owners. Of course today with our high end Ryzen 7 machines capable of doing what a 50 grand machine did slowly back then, its a whole different ballgame with many a budding designed able to do a homebrew app or game fairly easily on their home PC but back then PC's were different beasts hence why you needed these astonishingly expensive machines to push your code and artwork into a viable cartridge or disc game.

@misterx6346 3 года назад

When I saw this video pop up, I was literally baffled. Hadn't ever heard of a planned sequel, or even one as a remote ploy. Also, the M2 prototype looks like a Dreamcast & 3DO had a baby.

@nathancrowe641 3 года назад

Wow, I didn't know it was going to have a DVD drive! This changes my perspective! A Nintendo 64 with a CD drive, but without Nintendo's first and second party software, and at a higher price--I didn't think would be compelling enough for customers, but the DVD drive changes things. Considering the amount of PlayStation 2s sold for its DVD player, this really could have shaked the gaming generation that was to come at the time, and gaming as we know it today.

@linkskywalker5417 2 года назад

That, and the DVD drive allowed for bigger games. GT4 is a good example of this.

@STICKOMEDIA 3 года назад

How is there this many lost consoles? Ms. Decade you are amazing 👏

@VideoGameEsoterica 3 года назад

The M2 had a lot for it. Saw you mentioned my channel / demo disc. If anyone else wants to know what’s up with M2 I have dozens of videos on the hardware and games on my channel :)

@mutalix 3 года назад

Yep you and barely a handful of other channels have an assortment of M2 games and other M2 information. I've heard one other dude tried to buy as much m2 gems as he can and in some weird twist of selfish vanity locks it up for his own amusement. Thank goodness for folks like you, otherwise I fear we would never have known details of M2 and its games if not for you, thanks for sharing brother!

@VideoGameEsoterica 3 года назад

mutalix haha yes I spent an inordinate amount of money to source these prototypes, betas, alphas and arcade variants to release for free. I have another free M2 release coming soon and another arcade variant disc coming from Asia soon that I’ll dump and share

@ricochetpig 3 года назад

Love your channel. I was about to recommend it but saw it was already mentioned. 👍

@kadosho02 3 года назад

They were super ambitious with this platform. It just flew too close to the sun

@85eurolaw Год назад

was watching video game nerd,ran out of content. found your channels gold mine, Now im hooked and cant stop watching.

@_kikaso 3 года назад

I absolutely love these videos about obscure hardware. Great presentation, production, and writing. I learn so much! Thank you!

@rolandkatsuragi 3 года назад

I appreciate the attention to detail with most of the background music being taken from the 3DO version of Super Turbo's soundtrack.

@frumiousgaming 3 года назад

Just imagine if we were on the 3DO 6 now

@helldog3105 3 года назад

I remember reading about the M2 back in the 90's and how exciting it was supposed to be. And then it just disappeared over night. This was a very interesting video. I didn't know that Panasonic just didn't even try when it came to marketing the M2 as a console. What a shame. I think it would have been an interesting alternative. But without the licensing fees for each of the games, there was no way the could have been competitive with the hardware, I guess? Oh well, history is just an absolute wash of what ifs and might have been occurrences. My favorite of those was the Amiga AAA platform. It was still in prototyping when Commodore went belly up. If it had come out on time, it could have been really fascinating.

@ClockworkBastard 3 года назад

My gosh... never heard a sound about that! I'm rather into oldgaming. And the original 3DO was a never-even-hoped dream in my childhood. Cuz I'm from Russia here! Keep it up! Finally subscribed.

@6Stevo 3 года назад

You are killing it with this recent content. Please keep 'em coming. 😃

@UserNameMandatory Год назад

Was one of those people psyched for the M-2. I was saving up my money and flipping through the gaming magazines for the slightest blurb about it, typically found on the very last pages.

@Hamdad 3 года назад

I like how the lighting in her studio lets you wear red/blue 3D glasses and it oddly kind of works

@dcdream2k 3 года назад

I remember hearing about this I bought my first in 2014 and have enjoyed it since Nice video

@sonataonmymind 3 года назад

Konami had an arcade board based on the M2, it was called "Konami M2"

@mutalix 3 года назад

Yep saw a few games on a couple of channels, so crazy Konami took that chance, unfortunately it was all for naught 😞

@DarthEquus 3 года назад

Polystars is one of the games they made with it. At least that lets us have an idea of what the games at home would have looked like.

@fresnokila3 3 года назад

I still have a few magazines around mentioning the 3DO M2. I always loved seeing the prospect of new systems back then.

@Myako 3 года назад

Such a shame that this never got a console release. I am particularly sad about the original version of D2 never being finished. Even in prototype form, it felt much better than what they released on the Dreamcast.

@alexxbaudwhyn7572 5 месяцев назад

Living through the Golden Age, crash, then the insane 90s console and pc gaming era was...wild

@avalond1193 3 года назад

Loved the 3do and was really hoping m2 would be released was hyped but the sega Saturn kept me happy

@mstcrow5429 3 года назад

I remember seeing a breakdown of the then-upcoming M2 as a gaming console in the mid-90s, maybe in Next Generation.

@juggalo4life247mfrs 3 года назад

I remeber when i had my goldstar 3do,and couldnt wait till the m2 came out.but,just like with other planned counsels,the idea just fizzled away and was never heard of again!!

@steven-vn9ui 3 года назад

Cool, never heard this legend before. As if the hardware was used in coffee machines! Seems a little overkill haha

@Batman-jm7np 3 года назад

Jaguar shells used at dentist clinics as the spit sink dentist uses.

@timhorn3829 3 года назад

I remember the articles for this here in the states even though I never owned a 3d0 it sounded exciting

@bornwisedistruction 3 года назад

I was that one kid sitting on the stoop with my Panasonic 3DO and copy of Super SF2 turbo & Road Rash waiting on the M.2 to release while all my other friends ran and played their Playstations and Saturn's and later the N64's Then hope ran dry and I got a N64 and I forgot all about The M.2 Hype

@Tekknorg 3 года назад

When I released IMSA for M2 I could see its Power. The graphics are better than N64. IMSA Shows real time graphics in the car Show room / loading Screen, Real time lightening.

@DomainObject 2 года назад

Great mini-documentary Ms. Decade! I was a huge original 3DO fan back in the day. I used to drool over the hardware specs and promise of the system. Interestingly, I don’t remember the M2 at all. This was a nice history lesson on where 3DO was going before its ultimate demise. Thanks!

@pabloignacioscaletta 3 года назад

Woohoo! I saw that Mortal Kombat Deception footage. A really nice treat for hardcore Mortal Kombat fans such as myself. Okay, back to the subject, this console would have been amazing, had it been released.

@visitandolosclasicos 3 года назад

I do remember drooling over the store window whenever i saw a 3d0 but alas i could not afford it lol lol , read about the m2 in magazines and tougth maybe when it gets released i migth finaly afford the 3d0 !!! Great video, i love ur vidoes a lot quite informative and entertaining !!! Ty !!!

@nascarbryant 3 года назад

M2 was released in the arcades by Konami!

@johnnybyrd300 3 года назад

Soooooo. Someone else tried the three handle controller? That's insanity

@ShadowEl 3 года назад

It isn't such a crazy idea for the time. The N64 controller gets a lot of flak, especially in retrospect, but analog controls were an unknown quantity at the time. Imagine they hadn't caught on; the default N64 hand configuration would've been the left and right grips rather than the middle and right grips.

@roberthornibrook6344 3 года назад

Hey at least the 3do sold more consoles than the Laseractive and Amiga CD32. :P Even more than the mighty 32x. Its a shame we didn't see the M2 get a commercial release.

@michaelgariti8008 3 года назад

I'd check your math...NOTHING outsold the 32X, or ever will! The 32X remains the top selling console of all time. More 32X's were sold than Genesis 1's and 2's COMBINED!

@krisfrederick5001 3 года назад

No one I knew could even afford the original 3DO to even worry about this lol

@deedeetee17 2 года назад

Really loving this channel - wow!

@jeremyharshe2337 3 года назад

Wow, Thank You. Don’t hear much about the M2 these days. Great job and keep the great content coming!! 🙌🏻👍🏻

@ImOnRandom Месяц назад

Thank you for these videos.

@jamminjago Год назад

This one I remember fairly well. I remember reading about it in gaming mags, and particularly hearing about D2 which was supposed to be one of the killer apps. I remember being disappointed over it's cancellation and thinking it was because it was maybe coming out too close to the next gaming generation.

@Katana2040 2 года назад

Awesome content. I remember this era, and I remember when this machine was announced. It’s amazing how diverse the hardware aspect of gaming was, back then. Nowadays, everyone is pretty much using the same chips. Boring, lol! Cheers, Lady Decade

@takuminightcore1886 3 года назад

If the 3DO was cheaper During the start they would’ve probably survived

@KillaBitz 3 года назад

and have gone bankrupt very quickly. There is a reason only Sony and Microsoft survived, they were already big enough to sell consoles at a loss just to claim market share and force out competition.

@deadred80 3 года назад

Lady decade loves video games .. I love lady decade ...

@troughle 3 года назад

I waited and waited and never saw a release. What could have been. Great Discussion !

@edhc44 3 года назад

I never knew anything about the M2 other than that famous red car render and how the Z21S looked. I didn't even know that this is what the it is called nor that there were two models, let alone a complete game that now I must seek in obcession. Great job Lady Decade, I think you beat eveyone else to this console!

@sega-re-trop-vieux 3 года назад

I know a friend with the m2 prototype… lucky guy

@pliniomsann 3 года назад

Pretty! Do one for the Master System please 😁

@joesshows6793 3 года назад

Good stuff as usual

@tsk26_yt10 3 года назад

Had this game console been launched on the market, I think it would have been the killer of playstation 1, Since apparently, due to its technical specifications, it was more powerful than the psx.

@mutalix 3 года назад

Wow why do people think "power" as in indicator of "winning" the console wars? Xbox has almost always been the strongest console and has never won. Being the most powerful is nice, but there is far more important details that equal a consoles success, than power alone.

@octonimus1458 3 года назад

I bought the Panasonic 3do before Sega (I think) I would play for hours a game called Space Hulk and some Warrior fighting game where you fought real actors (1rst person view). The counsel just sort of vanished and was forgotten. It was pretty good for its time...

@comixof2morrow 3 года назад

Hi..when I was a kid I used to get game informer and seen and wanted the 3DO. But was too expensive. LOL. Great Video

@tylermills79 Год назад

I remember being exited for the M2 back then reading about it in the gaming magazines. It seemed like everything the N64 could have been had they used cd rom instead of cartridges.

@jorgejaquez360 3 года назад

Your channel should be a lot larger. This is S tier content!! Keep it up!!!

@doloresdelorto6516 3 года назад

Never knew about that project before, great video! Would be nice a new episode with the Halcyon console, that one was monumental in comparision to everything around at the time. Unfortunately to expensive to release and to market by those years.

@Risperdali 3 года назад

This is a great video! I had heard of the M2, but I didn't know much about it! It looks like it could have been great, but they just didn't have enough AAA developers on board

@sakurarozu 3 года назад

Thanks lady for another insightful video as always !

@sajmeister 3 года назад

Loving the videos you upload here. Learning so much about the stuff u I never knew existed

@atomiswave1971 3 года назад

You missed that m2 hardware made it to the arcade industry. Some folks have an m2 game or 2. I believe polystars made the arcade from Konami.

@auklon3372 3 года назад

I had gotten 3do and learned of the issue cost. It was okay but there were very few titles available for it. It remember playing alone in the dark, road rash, and samurai showdown, along with the demo disk. Would watch the 2 stupid dogs episode and play the car game that was included.

@catube6915 3 года назад

Nice video, good job

@KillaBitz 3 года назад

The 3DOM2 Unit should have been known as Freedom2U in America. It would have been a grate success then.

@KillaBitz 3 года назад

The adds could have been like........ Freedom2 do this, Freedom2 do that, Freedom2 do anything you want with 3DOM2U ... the 3DO M2 Unit

@ErKtheErK 3 года назад

Good morning from Texas. Insomnia pays off with the time difference.

@lukasjozef1774 2 года назад

Recuerdo esos videos de la tecnologian M2, venian en CDs que regalaba Micromania, como lo flipabamos con esas demos tecnologicas. Los 90 fueron increibles para gamers, como lo echo de menos.

@Alvarofelipef 3 года назад

Always clever and fresh

@hababacon 3 года назад

The M2 was only twice as powerful as N64. 700K polys were more like 500K-640K triangles with 15bit color output. What made the 3D0 more appealing than the N64 was it's 8MBs of ram. Video sub system was better for processing textures, something the N64 struggled. ACCLAIM developer Iguana claimed the N64 was more powerful at one point time. Keep in mind the 3DO did the same Atair did with the Jaguar. M2 had 32 bit chips in their system while marketing it as 64 bit. The memory was the only thing 64 bit about the M2. The games released in the arcades did not far beyond N64, Saturn games. Battle Tryst looks like a PS1 game to be honest. Total Vice might be the only game released that was beyond current Gen games.

@hababacon 3 года назад

Konami actually released a handful of M2 arcade based games. Battle Tryst, Hell Knight, Total Vice, Poly Star, and Heat of Eleven.

@nufiya999 3 года назад

Excellent Documentary. I learned many things.

@TheDemonking82 3 года назад

I had a 3do fz10 back in 96 from a friend traded it in for ps one, finally got a Japanese fz10. I remember reading about the M2 and was so sad reading that it was over before it really began. Would love to get the developers software be fun to make some new things for it.

@greekgod2332 3 года назад

Love the content. Great stuff! New favorite historian!

@rbadams97 3 года назад

Wow never heard of this. Have the original still and the Saturn and just about everything from the 2600 up. Actually I don't remember last time I turned on my 3do.

@seasidegalaxystreet 2 года назад

I love lady decade.

@smoothALOE 2 года назад

In hindsight, this was the system that had the best potential to break through before the Sony PS came along. I wish the 3DO were a more reliable console to collect and play for. I still like it, at least in concept.

@fragsta247 3 года назад

Thanks for doing this 😘

@FantasyVisuals 3 года назад

Matsushita signed a terrible deal for 100 million. They had limited hardware rights and only " most of " the software royalty rights - in other words 3DO company would still get a portion of what software companies paid per title. The hardware was disastrously designed , one of the early developers said it had a " six month " learning curve. Ditching it was a smart move.

@MrTBoneSF 2 года назад

Don't know where you heard/read that. Compared to its contemporaries, the M2 (and the 3DO) had very straightforward architectures supported by a robust OS and detailed documentation and source code for most everything. The Saturn, N64, PSX were much harder to develop for because most times you received some badly translated hardware manuals, library and compiler binaries that might not work on your desired dev environment (Mac, PC, Unix) with no source to modify, and maybe a few simple test programs that didn't show how to tap the power of the unique hardware.

@FantasyVisuals 2 года назад

@@MrTBoneSF one of the software developers reported a " workstation architecture " and stated it had a six month learning curve. The Saturn was the worst ( after jaguar with its assembly language ) due to bad rushed design , and the two CPUs interrupting each other

@MrTBoneSF 2 года назад

@@FantasyVisuals "one of the software developer's reported a 'workstation architecture'..." seems really vague and out of context (plus it's not attributed to anybody so it's very "I heard from a friend of a friend"). I guess if you were a SNES developer used to banging on a particular set of chips and registers, and suddenly dealing with an OS on a 3D architecture it would be a learning curve. Heck, the original 3DO was a machine that many developers cut their 32-bit/3D teeth on, so naturally their first few games took longer than they were used to. But that knowledge they could later use on Saturn and PSX. And things like a multi-tasking OS to do background streaming from the disc (a new thing in the cd-rom/32-bit era) were always part of the 3DO dev environments while devs initially had to roll their own on PSX and Saturn.

@hibern81 3 года назад

Now it's a high tech coffee machine.

@colinewan2320 3 года назад

Brilliant content delivered by a host as gorgeous as she is knowledgeable on her subject. A weekly treat & always a pleasure to watch. Many Thanks .

@michaelgariti8008 3 года назад

My friend Frank D.'s father used to work for Panasonic, and he HAD an M.2 prototype. The games were mind blowing for the time (all 2 of them). I notice the title format is "M.2" like the current computer connection; is there any correlation?

@leroybrown7602 3 года назад

Mmm that smile that you have when you hold up that 3d0 is hot. 3do was an awesome system. Road Rash was the best.

@TBoneTony 3 года назад

The license for any company to develop their own 3DO console was the first of many business decisions to really Backfire on 3DO itself. Because of different companies making the price of the console being already expensive enough, it was doomed to fail when other companies got involved.

@thepowerisyetunknown7710 3 года назад

Good vid!

@DarDarBinks1986 3 года назад

I read my share of video game magazines as a kid in the '90s. I read up on the M2 and wanted to see it released. Had it been released, Sony wouldn't have stood a chance because we'd have already had consoles that could play DVDs.

@johnleewilliamson2072 3 года назад

good stuff!

@EvaFull 3 года назад

Lady Decade, if possible can you start adding captions to your videos. I ask because I am hearing impaired & it helps me follow along with the video easier. Now onto enjoying another video deep dive that you have done for your fans.

@SoilentGr33n 3 года назад

Ah yes, the fabled Matsushita M2. The darling of glossy mag hype.

@pda1799 3 года назад

I would still change the lightning during the presentation. To something more warm. Thank you)

@VB-3 Год назад

Next Generation Magazine were slobbering left and right over M2. I remember several issues with overly adoring write ups despite there not being any real content.

@DailyCorvid 2 года назад

OMG what the hell is this thing?? Another weird and wonderful console :) Excellent

@DarkLordNick999 3 года назад

I remember reading about this in GameFan. It’s sometimes interesting to imagine what might have been. Do you already have a video about the Phantom? A game console that actually lived up to its name.