[tombert]

Well that’s what I am saying though; clearly the 32x (and probably the Saturn) were capable of running something cool like SRB2 as evidenced by the tech demos, and I feel like SRB2 really does feel like a proper translation of the 2D games to 3D.

But I broadly agree; it wasn’t a hardware thing, it was a “we don’t know how to do it” thing; SRB2 came like a full decade after the 32x’s relevance.