The price was still too high for the console and games, and SNK was losing money hand over fist. the lack of variety, the restrictions, and the cheap price of the genesis and SNES were only the first problem, than the 3DO came out, and the Jaguar came out, and you had Virtua Racing and Star Fox, on the older consoles, it was a done deal. it was a profitable niche for a short time given the price of the console and the games, but but that wore off after a few years and the niche audience of the console variation of the Neo geo declined, and while SNK did drop the price and had some games on "sales" at that point that weren't new releases, it didn't really work. We are talking Apple Pippin / Jaguar / Playdia levels of "just didnt sell big numbers"īut from a historical perspective? its pretty interesting and I will say the industrial design of the console itself is pretty damn intriguing and unique.and everything deserves a mention now and thenīut GAF.what console did YOU own that failed hard any nobody cared about? because I had a 3DO at launch lololĬommercially and in adoption yet, even the 3DO did better at a higher price point.
The games? Well they are BARELY games.and clearly Casio misread the market because this thing failed HARD. Weirdly it shares a similar processor to the Sega Saturn and its way more powerful on paper than it would ever show on screen.and it prints really high quality stickers. So they stepped in.and made the Casio Loopy The execs over at Casio thought that the market was just trying to sell to one gender.and that there was this giant swath of people who needed a console.
3DO, Atari, NEC / Hudson.the list goes on and on.īut Casio probably took the brass ring for the strangest attempt to get a piece of the pie for themselves.making a 32-bit video game console that printed stickers and was designed to appear to Japanese girls. But if you DIDN'T grow up in the 90s you missed the era of every company churning out their own video game console to try to get a piece of the market.
Sure today you have three consoles that everyone loves.and that's it! Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo managed to wattles down the market to a three hardware platform race.
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