Neo Geo
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@sherm, re: 'ya neo geo was the shit back then... seemed like arcade games but in your house...'
No doubt, the graphics were lovely. The problems with the Neo Geo were numerous, though:
— Punishingly high price point for both hardware and software;
— Limited catalogue (in the Canadian market, anyway, I don't know about anywhere else);
— Mis-leading marketing around the specs. It never was *true* 24-bit architecture;
— No really successful franchises (cf: Mario, Zelda, Metal Gear, Sonic, Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, et al);
— The games catalogue was vastly published by SNK themselves, with a few from smaller, lesser-known 3rd-party publishers. In those days, especially, if you didn't have the likes of Konami, Capcom, Namco or (as it was known then) Squaresoft in your 3rd-party publisher roster even before you launched your console, then the fight was over before it even got started.I would say that out of all of those problems, the last one was the real sinker, one that Sony took great pains to resolve before the roll-out of the 1st-generation Playstation.
The bottom line was that no degree of positive arcade-like experience could make up for the shortcomings. And, let's face it: SNK never really seemed to take the North American and European markets too seriously anyway, otherwise, they would have addressed these issues.
- WERD... The games where like £200/300 pounds and the console was like £700...necromation
- they might as well been a gazillion £££. i knew NO-one who had one!necromation