Destructoid compares PS3 to Saturn, and not in a good way.

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Khuutra said:

jv103 said:
These statements are basically reflexive defensive statements to tell shareholders why the hell your company doesn't have market share. I wonder if they said the same thing over the Neo Geo (I don't remember if that was the systems name).

Nah. The Neo Geo was manufactured with the explicit intent to be sold in very low quantities to eccentric and moderately wealthy collectors. For what it was it was very successful.

 

exactly, the neo geo was aimed squarely at those that wanted basically an arcade in a console housing and it was marketed as such.

that is why hardware was manufactured for it for 7 years and games were produced for 14 years (the last release was samurai shodown 5 special in 2004)

plus the neo geo wasn't difficult to program for per se, it was basically a souped up genesis (both used a 68000 processor, like everything else under the sun at the time, and z80 coprocessor, the neo geo's was just significantly faster) with a vastly superior graphics and sound processors