Unreleased IMSA Racing for the canceled Matsushita M2 console

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Originally Posted by Puffy2k316

This is really the system that all the game magazines were hyping up in the mid 90s? REALLY?

It does look better then the PS1 or the N64, but it doesn't look as good as Virtua Fighter 3 (to use a contemporary example).

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M2 was designed to be a powerful consumer-level piece of hardware intended to cost no more than $400 tops. M2 development began in 1993/1994, and was completed in 1996. The Model 3 board was designed in 1995/1996 (began later than M2) as a highend arcade board where cost constraints were not nearly as tight.

Of course M2 doesn't look as good as Virtua Fighter 3, but it was meant to be more powerful/capable/better-looking than Model 2 Daytona USA and VF2.

For what M2 was meant to be, it was solid. Nothing revolutionary, just the best consumer level 3D hardware of 1996/1997.

I was angry enough that I got a saturn and by 1998 sega pulled the plug on it in favor the Dreamcast. I would have been absolutely livid if they pulled the plug on Saturn in 1996 for a brand new system. I'm sure developers would have been none too happy as well. Retailers like KB were already angry enough with Sega over the 32X and surprise release date of the Saturn. Could you imagine how angry they would have been over another system dying in a little over a year. Not to mention customers in general.

Ugh...just the thought of that is extremely annoying. Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Burning Rangers both look far better than that game, Hell Manx TT Superbike looks better. Just my opinion.

One question, why does a supposedly 64 bit machine need to use sprites for the trees, why not actual polygon models. It seems like yet another low budget 3DO cop out.

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Originally Posted by MN12BIRD

Come on man what Saturn games look better then that? The resolution looks high, the frame rate is smooth, the lighting looks more advanced than anything the Saturn has and the draw distance is nearly infinite. It looks closer to DC than anything from the 32-bit era if you ask me.

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I agree that the resolution and frame rate look great, but a lot of the textures just look bland (most notably the grass).

I'm sure that if it were more close to being finished they'd fix the problem.