3DO Bankrupt

[Aku]

It looks like the company that brought us Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic is in Chapter 11. Stock that once went for $40 can now be had for about $.50. The Mighty have fallen.

[E.T.]

3DOs financial woes are a little surprising when you consider the continued success of software sales since year 2000. The software industry on a whole has seen annually, double digit prosperity for four years now, but not 3DO.
[I cant help but wonder if 3DOs con$ole manufacturing laid the ground work for their finacial implosion].

[lyncho]

<div class=\"smallfont\">It looks like the company that brought us Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic is in Chapter 11. Stock that once went for $40 can now be had for about $.50. The Mighty have fallen.</
dammit, no more army men games

[I.B. Chance]

Well actually 3DO was not a game developer per se. M&M and Heroes was developed by New World Computing which went away shortly after M&M 9 released. My opinion and what I stated in my review of M&M 9 came prophetically true--that its release would be the end of the road for 3DO.

The problem is that the Lithtech engine wasn't enough. 3D wasn't enough. The game was a mish-mash of frustrating and feeble game play that just wasn't all the much fun for long time M&M fans who loved the series because of its quaint and simple feeling, a great story, fun environments and even fun skills. With that the series ran out of gas and 3DO has not signed up a rookie winner in a long, long time.

It didn't help that they released Legends of Might and Magic, a medievel Quake, an obvious rip off on the series.

It's too bad but let's not despair. I believe they'll be selling the franchise of M&M if they haven't already (I'm almost positive they have but I can't remember the buyer).

Lastly, I might be wrong but as I remember it 3DO was in the vid chip market as well but they could never seem to keep up with the 3DLabs and Nvidias of the world. A ton of money bled out from the company as I recall.

[DNAmixer]

<div class=\"smallfont\">Lastly, I might be wrong but as I remember it 3DO was in the vid chip market as well but they could never seem to keep up with the 3DLabs and Nvidias of the world. A ton of money bled out from the company as I recall.</div>

The video card company was 3dfx and not 3DO. I lost lots of money when 3dfx went belly-up, at least by my standards. It was a real shame, what was once the number one video card company ran into the ground by poor management.

[Eric-the-Red]

Yeah, I still think the old Voodoo 5 5500 was a kick-ass card. Maybe it was outperformed framerate wise by those GeForce 2s, but in every other way I thought it was superior...wow remember the image quality on those old Voodoo cards? They were a cut above anything else around for a while.

Right now it looks like ATI is the "real" video card company, even though Nvidia seems to have a larger share of the market. I've always liked Radeons.

[I.B. Chance]

Trust me, 3DO made a chip. It pre-dated both 3dfx and Nvidia. This was back in the IBM 286 days. That was part of 3DO's problem, they wanted to crack the hardware market and it cost them.

[Billy_Barou]

I'm not actually sure about M&M, but Heroes of M&M is probally going to be bought by UbiSoft. Here is the link to the PDF where is it stated that UbiSoft is the leading bidder for Heroes of M&M Asset (1.3 Million), it looks like.

http://www.3doinfo.com/DesignationofLeadBids030808.pdf


Well actually 3DO was not a game developer per se. M&M and Heroes was developed by New World Computing which went away shortly after M&M 9 released. My opinion and what I stated in my review of M&M 9 came prophetically true--that its release would be the end of the road for 3DO.

The problem is that the Lithtech engine wasn't enough. 3D wasn't enough. The game was a mish-mash of frustrating and feeble game play that just wasn't all the much fun for long time M&M fans who loved the series because of its quaint and simple feeling, a great story, fun environments and even fun skills. With that the series ran out of gas and 3DO has not signed up a rookie winner in a long, long time.

It didn't help that they released Legends of Might and Magic, a medievel Quake, an obvious rip off on the series.

It's too bad but let's not despair. I believe they'll be selling the franchise of M&M if they haven't already (I'm almost positive they have but I can't remember the buyer).

Lastly, I might be wrong but as I remember it 3DO was in the vid chip market as well but they could never seem to keep up with the 3DLabs and Nvidias of the world. A ton of money bled out from the company as I recall.