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| zenimus:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 23, 2017, 08:28:04 pm ---^ If you read about the history of the Neo Geo, it really didn't fail, though. SNK knew they weren't gonna be "the" mainstream console. And they said as much. They said it was catering to a niche market that could afford such an expensive high-end machine. And to that end, it was a success. It's lifespan even lasted a whopping 14 years, from 1990 to 2004. --- End quote --- True, the home system was never really marketed at the masses. It's the Neo Geo arcade machines that were a big financial success for SNK. Those big red cabs were everywhere. It's pretty cool though that SNK never dropped support for the home system throughout the entire lifespan. Official home carts even continued to be released after the original SNK's demise in 2001 or so. You could probably put the Neo Geo CD as a failed console though. By the time it released, the Saturn and PlayStation were already on the scene, so it got passed by in the hype for blocky, low-poly 3D games. |
| oldgamerz:
Hello I'm new to this forum and I would like to say. fist and foremost the Atari Jaguar because if It had better games for it it would have been fun to play. I heard it had a vary small library we should know that always can make or break a console. second I would say the Sega Saturn because I think it suffered similar fate as the jaguar. I read somewhere that the Sega Saturn was vary hard for companies to program due to it's duel processor and few programmers could code the games made for the Sega Saturn as a result. About the best 2 games on the Saturn ID say was Virtua Fighter 2 and Daytona USA or something USA I forgot. third I'd say the Dreamcast. I never played a Dreamcast before only seen one for sale but It don't interest me much. I heard it had fantastic games for it not sure because I don't know much about that 6th generation console |
| marvelvscapcom2:
Neo Geo CD :D |
| oldgamerz:
this is a vary interesting thread so I brought it back to life :) I still know nothing about the Sega Dreamcast could some care to describe there experience with a Sega Dreamcast? I heard a lot of the Dreamcast disc lasers died due to using bootleg games. and the fact that their hard to find in working condition |
| sworddude:
Dreamcast i'll give the 2nd spot to the saturn I personally don't see any future in the atari jaguar. it had some impressive 2d grapics in say rayman and was nice with games like alien vs predator but that's it. I don't think atari devs could make very interesting games compared to the devs working for nintendo or sega at that time. days of simple pacman and pitfall where over. animal kartz zool all poor attempts to clone other iconic series. if it was actually succesfull I'd think it will have subpar games compared to sega or nintendo but people liking simple stuff as tetris kinda stuff wich I'm not interested in as far as succes goes or maybe realistic sport and racing games. Saturn and especially dreamcast had tons of lost potential plus even in their less succesfull years with sega losing money getting quality stuff on the market. if sega was as succesfull as during the 16 bit days those libraries would have been beefed up by allot. dreamcast was an absolute arcade machine and the saturn was a 2d powerhouse. those consoles could have surpassed the genesis in pretty much everything and even in their current state for certain genre's they have. quite a shame for 2d game fans I'd say could have been more interesting than it is today because sega wasnt doing to hot in those era's yes the atari jaguar could have had some decent games if where only looking at console specs However imo you should look at the devs that where creating games for these systems. I don't think atari jaguar had great devs for them games and i could only imagine a library with very subpar games. subpar games do sell tons of sports racing or movie license games on sega and nintendo after all. good or bad they make money. atari jaguar not having konami treasure nintendo sega taito capcom etc devs. devs > console specs. |
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