Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

[MikeB]

@ sieanr

The Neo-Geo was designed as Arcade hardware from the outset, selling it at home was secondary and it was never seriously considered for that role. If you want to use the Neo-Geo as an example then why not bring up the Capcom CPS changer?

The Neo Geo was a games console and the most powerful one at the time, that's why I brought it up. Just to point out the Snes wasn't the most powerful game console.

IMO both those boards are more impressive thanks to the variety and quality of games released

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, why do I have to reply to this? It doesn't change the fact that I didn't have a Neo Geo, so if I liked a game, I would still have bought the Amiga version. For example the arcade versoin of the New Zealand Story was more colorful, while the Amiga version was almost an exact port of the still pretty good Atari ST version. This simple game could easily have been pretty much identical to the arcade version on the Amiga:

Amiga (New Zealand Story)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1rEJCa_Ztz4

Arcade
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YViBVvjn5K4

Still Ocean did a relatively good job porting arcade games, maybe they didn't include more colorful graphics to keep the games to fit on a single 880KB Amiga 500 disc.

Other 1 disc arcade ports published by Ocean:
Rodland:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m-ZE6lxjX68
Pang:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=djhdLcyU_nE
Toki:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EoVNYLowa6Q

Not arcade perfect, but the Amiga versions were still the best home versions we could get here in Europe at the time. The NES versions sucked in comparison.

the Amiga wasn't a viable platform later in life due to piracy, aging hardware and better options available to developers[quote]

Yes things went downhill pretty quickly when Commodore bankrupted.

[quote]namely that the SNES is far more similar in design to the Amiga than the PS3

That may be your perspective, in terms of gaming power the Snes (Released in 1990 -1992) is closer specced to the Amiga 1000 (1985) and Amiga 500 (1987) than the PS3 (2006) is.

this reminds me of Halo 3

Why?