Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Despite the economic benefits which had been identified in a third-party analysis the federal government was not prepared to move in the area of tax.

Despite Vatanen's nearly fatal accident in Argentina, in the middle of the season, his team-mate and compatriot Timo Salonen led Peugeot to its first drivers ' and manufacturers ' world championship titles, well ahead of Audi and their Audi Sport Quattro.

Despite its small physical size, the airport is capable of handling Boeing 747s and Antonov 124s, which forms a vital freight link between local manufacturers and overseas markets.

Despite performance benefits, these bindings have failed to gain a significant following during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and most manufacturers have withdrawn models from production.

Despite having last been used officially by the pre-Union Royal Scots Navy and merchant marine fleets in the 18th century, the flag continues to be produced by flag manufacturers and its unofficial use by private citizens on water has been observed.

Despite its unofficial and historic status the Scottish Union Flag continues to be produced by flag manufacturers, and its unofficial use by private citizens on land has been observed.

Despite the simplification they can bring to the electronics of an HVDC valve, light triggered thyristors may still require some simple monitoring electronics and have the disadvantage of being available from only very few manufacturers.

Despite this, many manufacturers are beginning to avoid the segment definition for their products, as speed and basic functionality alone are often not sufficient to differentiate the many features that the devices are capable of.

Despite some shortcomings, such as the card's dithered 16-bit 3D color rendering and 800 × 600 resolution limitations, no other manufacturers ' products could match the smooth framerates that the Voodoo2 produced.

Despite the mild popularity, manufacturers refused to market recordable Laserdisc devices on the consumer market, even though the competing VCR devices could record onto cassette, which hurt sales worldwide.

Despite a one-two for Subaru again at the season-ending RAC, Subaru lost the manufacturers ' crown to Toyota by four points.

Despite the availability of AMAX receivers from companies like Sony, General Electric, Denon, and AMAX-certified car radios from the domestic and Japanese automakers, most electronics manufacturers did not wish to implement the more costly AMAX tuner ( radio ) design in their radios, so most AM radios today remain in mono with limited fidelity.

Despite the immediate success of the Mustang, many ( including some within Ford ) feared that the bubble would soon burst, and other manufacturers were relatively slow to respond.

Despite this, many manufacturers opted to use the less expensive Parnacott process.

Despite the V8 model winning Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1973, sales of the P76 were adversely affected by a variety of issues: component manufacturers ' strikes limiting parts availability, production problems at Leyland Australia's plant in Zetland all restricted supply of the car ; the release of P76 coincided with the first Oil Crisis, when fuel prices increased dramatically.

Despite the superiority of the technology in comparison to typical SuperVGA cards of the era, the relatively high cost and emerging local bus graphics standards meant that IT distributors and PC manufacturers could not see a niche for these products at consumer level.

Despite United States prohibitions on the import of balisongs, beginning in the 1980s, a variety of Asian manufacturers continued to export low-cost Balisong knives to the United States.

Despite their importance, commercial manufacturers are often reluctant to invest the resources required to bring these products to market.

Despite this, most American manufacturers continued to use non-lead alloys.

Despite stellar performance, the high pressure and velocity of the cartridge caused flame cutting of revolver top straps ( due to the use of light 110 and 125 grain bullets ), and the cartridge has since been dropped by all manufacturers who so chambered their revolvers.

Despite their popularity, many diecast manufacturers went belly-up in the 1980s.

Despite outcries from traditionalist photographers who knew how to correct their own metering exposure errors, the feature was quickly copied by all the major SLR manufacturers.

Despite physical similarity between L-Jetronic components and those produced under license by other manufacturers, the non-Bosch systems should not be called L-Jetronic, and the parts are usually incompatible.

Despite the constant introduction of new terms by fashion designers, clothing manufacturers and marketers, the names for several basic garment classes in English are very stable over time.

Despite the title, the magazine covers products of all manufacturers, not just Hornby.

Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming.

Despite their rationality, however, the interiors usually contained more dramatic sweeping staircases, as well as furniture designed by Saarinen, such as the Pedestal Series.

Despite his conversion to Catholicism in 1834, Pugin designed and refurbished both Anglican and Catholic churches throughout the country.

Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernist spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.

Despite being similar in form to the Greek version of a grid, the Roman grid was ultimately designed on the basis of being practical.

Despite motte-and-bailey and ringworks being common designs amongst Norman castles, each fortification was slightly different – some castles were designed with two baileys attached to a single motte, and some ringworks were built with additional towers added on ; yet other castles were built as ringworks and later converted to motte-and-bailey structures.

Despite its embattled appearance, it was designed for elegant living rather than for defence.

Despite being the producers of sligs, the Tleilaxu themselves do not consume the animals, having designed them to facilitate what they see as the degrading decadence and spiritual bankruptcy of all cultures but their own.

Despite this, a first light is always a moment of great excitement, both for the people who designed and built the telescope, and for the astronomical community.

Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the tragedy that befell its " sister " ship, the R101 ( which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry ); the later crash of the Hindenburg led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport.

Despite its problems, however, Habitat's fame and success " made reputation " and helped launch his career ; Safdie has now designed over 75 buildings and master plans around the world.

Despite its eye catching modern styling, the car was from the start designed to be easy and inexpensive to produce: in Britain the front-wheel drive configuration used by Ford of Germany for their new similarly sized model was rejected in favour of the tried and tested rear-wheel drive layout.

Despite this, a first fire is always a moment of great excitement for the people who designed and built the furnace.

Despite years of effort and billions of dollars spent on computer software designed to assist air traffic control, success has been largely limited to improving the tools at the disposal of the controllers, such as computer-enhanced radar.

Despite Kariya's efforts, the Ducks were low-scoring as a team ; the deal was designed to give Kariya offensive support.

Despite the modern 18 – 24-month generational update in computer systems technology, embedded systems are designed to last the lifetime of the machine in which they are a component.

Despite this, Warp Records announced in 2010 that the studio had designed Oversteps and Move of Ten, Autechre's tenth album and EP respectively, as well as designing their 1991 – 2002 EP collection artwork in 2011.

" Despite sharing the rigorous education programme designed by Prince Albert and his close adviser, Baron Stockmar, Beatrice had a more relaxed infancy than her siblings because of her relationship with her parents.

Despite the loss of defensive stalwarts Scott Stevens ( retirement ), Scott Niedermayer ( free agency ), and Ken Daneyko ( retirement ), as well as a series of rule changes designed to increase offence, the Devils have remained one of the league's least scored on and least penalized teams.

Despite its age, the Open Inventor API is still widely used for a wide range of scientific and engineering visualization systems around the world, having proven itself well designed for effective development of complex 3D application software.

The site of the Rialto Towers ( Flinders Lane, Collins Street, Winfield Square and Robbs Lane ) was occupied by several buildings including Robb's Buildings ( now demolished ), a grand classical styled 5 storey Victorian office building designed by Thomas Watts and Sons Despite the structural integrity of Robb's buildings and objections by the National Trust of Victoria, Grocon successfully argued that the retention of Robb's Buildings would spoil the effect of the proposed building and that as it would not integrate well with the new structure and that the Rialto should have its own modern concrete and glass podium.

Despite becoming the first driver to successfully defend the world title, Kankkunen's uneasy acceptance of team orders designed to benefit Biasion, the Italian star in an Italian car, pre-empted a move elsewhere for the 1988 season.

Despite not having been designed as a track machine, a modified race car edition of the vehicle won several races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995, where it faced purpose-built prototype race cars.

Despite firing some 304 shells and 1, 500, 000 rounds of small arms ammunition ( SAA ), some of the well designed trenches and redoubts of the Ottoman Army were still held and the British infantry casualties were substantial.