3DO Interactive Multiplayer
3DO · Launched in 1993
- Family
- 3DO
- Launch
- 1993
- Type
- Home console
- In the family
- #1 of 1 in launch order
No sales figure for this device from a checked source.
About the family
The 3DO did not belong to a single company: The 3DO Company, founded in 1991 by Electronic Arts co-founder Trip Hawkins, designed the hardware and licensed its manufacture. The first model, by Panasonic, launched in the United States on October 4, 1993, at 699.99 dollars; Guinness World Records lists it as the most expensive console ever, adjusted for inflation. Goldstar (now LG) and Sanyo versions followed in 1994, and the price dropped to 399 dollars by February 1994. In September 1996, The 3DO Company stopped developing and licensing hardware.
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Sources
Numbers checked against the sources below on 08/11/2026. These are the figures the companies publish for investors; Nintendo updates them every quarter, and Sony shows the latest figure released for each device, with different dates.