If anything, they both fell at the same hurdle, never really making the jump into the 3D-game marketplace that the newly emerging GPUs of the late '90s made possible.
Just that Origin gave them spirited and worthy competition.)īoth series were consistent, huge sellers for their respective publishers, so it's not like one drove the other into the ground. (None of which is to say that the X-Wing games weren't innovative and great, of course. TIE Fighter brought multiplayer to that series in 1997, but Wing Commander had gotten there three years earlier with 1994's Armada ( ). ) came out the same year as TIE Fighter, but sported SVGA graphics, full-motion video segments between sequences and actual name actors playing the various characters. Wing Commander: Prophecy: 1997: Wing Commander: Secret Ops: 1998: Contents. The two series ran concurrently and were constantly one-upping each other. I don't know that the X-Wing series really 'blew Wing Commander out of the water,' though.
