DHGF: After a little delay, Tommo and SNK finally released the Neo*Geo X to North American shores. This system, which can be both a portable gaming device as well as a home console, has a hefty price tag of two hundred dollars, but for those that grew up with the Neo*Geo and remember paying that much (or more!) for AES carts, this was practically a bargain, especially when you consider that it comes with twenty games packed in (twenty-one for the gold limited edition). For gamers that didn’t grow up with a Neo*Geo in their household, paying two hundred dollars for a system that only plays twenty year old games probably seems ludicrous. Personally, I fell somewhere in the middle. I love my old AES and have fifty or so carts for it, so two hundred dollars for a portable system that plays the games perfectly instead of being shoddy ports held real interest for me. At the same time, you can buy a lot of old Neo*Geo games as digital titles for systems like the Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 and Xbox 360, and you can pick and choose the games you get. That made the Neo*Geo X a hard sell. I eventually ended up getting it, thanks to a massive trade-in bonus from Gamestop (all those Wii U launch games + 50% bonus credit), as I could get the system for free. Add in the fact some of the games on the Neo*Geo X have never been released as digital downloads for other systems this generation, and it was hard to say no. On December 20th, the system finally came in, and now it’s time to show you what you will get if you picked one of these up. Of course, the Neo*Geo X Gold is sold out most everywhere, so if you like what you see, cross your fingers that you won’t have to hit up Ebay or some other reseller for one of these.
I (Robin Ek, TGG) just found out that Bitmap books is going to release a really cool book about Neo Geo's history. So if you're into Neo Geo, then don't miss out on this book =)
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Gamers hold a lot of techno-joy for their favorite hobby, and are willing to break out their credit cards for the next big system. That is, assuming that it isn't as ludicrously overpriced, as some have in the past.
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I don't think the PS3 should be on here, like the 360 it had high specs when it launched. Also, the vanilla PS3 had blu-ray drive, internal hard drive, built in wi-fi, and a PS2 emotion chip. The Wii U in my opinion was overpriced during the latter parts of its life cycle (especially in 2015-2016).
Yeah.....it suffered early for doing too much and costing a lot. The later version scaled back and actually made a hell of a comeback. But costing $599 and still selling it at a big loss? That was just a big mistake by Sony.
Still love my trusty PS3 though.
It was a mistake, but it doesn't mean that it was overpriced. PS3 was just sooo expensive it priced itself out the market is all. Overpriced would be like smartphones today where they cost $200 to manufacture but they charge you $800 to purchase.
True. It was actually under priced from a business standpoint. But 360 just undercut it so badly with all its simple, cheap focus on gaming. Sounds familiar.
$599?
Starting price for base model was $499. Offered a ton and was the cheapest bluray player on the market. Don't regret it one bit.
At first you may think $599 for the Playstation 3 was crazy to sell it at that price tag, but if you consider it had a Bluray player, a stand alone cost in that time over 1000 dlls, it had a PS2 integrated chip, not to mention a hell alot of media options you toy with, lots of tech integrated, so $599 was very reasonable, but the problem was that the economy of most people wasn't that great( today is even worst) to spend in such equipments, even thou at that price it manage to sold out nearly everywhere, Playstation brand is very powerful.
This BR player was release in December of 2006, and it cost $1000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
This other one cost $1300 and it was released in december as well:
https://www.cnet.com/produc...
The very first one released by Samsung in June of 2006 at $1000 dlls
The PS3 released in November 2006, seriously after doing that little research now come to think of it the PS3 was a steal!, Sony weren't lying when they say with each unit of the PS3 they were loosing money, this on the first years.
10 years ago they weren't far off. It wasn't a cheap console PS3 but being able to play ps1/2 and new 3 games sold. Extra ports and gubbins as well 👍🏻
When blue ray players first came on the market the were priced from 800 dollars to a grand or more.
Cheapest Blu-Ray player at the launch of the PS3 was about $700 when on sale. MSRP of that player was $1000 though. There were two other players at the time, and they were in the $1200 range, but could be found on sale for between $900-1000.
What's funny though is that the PS3 was actually a better blu-ray player than those models, and cost half the price. Even today, the PS3 is a very good blu-ray player, and it was one of the best players you could get for much of the last gen. I honestly think the PS3 is still a better BR player than the PS4 is, but I've never tested it to any great length, so my opinion on that may be anecdoctal.
No mention of N64? That wasn't cheap day one. Prob why console was reduced by nearly half within 6 months.
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Beautiful Console, Neo Geo has always been very expensive
Oh man....must....resist.....must .....not.......buy.....
Didn't realise you can dock and then play on the TV. Pretty cool.