I don't think that the Jaguar was any harder than other systems of the time to program for. Or the ones that would come shortly after like the Saturn anyway. However, Atari repeated their mistakes with the Atari 7800. The hardware was great but they were too cheap to spend the money that needed to be spent to develop high quality games and they did a poor job of courting third party developers. I'm sure they probably didn't produce developer tools to the level that Sega, Sony an Nintendo did either. The Jaguar had the power, timing and price to be a very successful system. It's amazing how Atari managed to screw that up.