The Neo Geo's price. Can you believe the console was more expensive than the PS3 and the cost of one game would get you 3 premium 360 tiltes today with lunch money left over?
SNK released the Neo Geo in 1990. It was an amazing sysytem, however, when the system had its national launch it debuted at $649.99 with two joysticks, a memory card, and a single pack-in game, Magician Lord. Without a game it cost..........$599 (still too expensive for a gaming system 17 full years later!)
Games cost $200 and UP—each. With these "premium" prices though, most gamers weren't able to afford the system and so the console was only accessible to a niche market.
Oddly enough SNK decided to abandon the NeoGeo hardware by the end of 1997, but software for was produced for many years after. Measured from the introduction of the arcade hardware in 1990 to the release of the last home cartridge in 2004, the Neo Geo's 14-year official span of support from its manufacturer makes it the second longest-lived arcade or home console system ever produced, only behind the Atari 2600, which was supported from 1977 until 1992.
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