I don't get all the Neo Geo complaints. The system well around for well over a decade. It was an arcade unit with swappable games. Most arcade machines costs thousands of dollars and only had the ability to play one game. The Neo Geo was $649 home version of the MVS arcade system. That part of the reason the system lasted so long. Arcade operators loved them. Instead of forking over thousands for a new cabinet for each game, the Neo Geo allowed them to pay a fraction of that for just the game. Not only that, the arcade iteration allowed several titles to be housed in one machine, increasing the chance of the Arcade Operator profiting off their investment.
If Sega released a home version of the Model 2 board it would have cost way more than $649 dollars and the games would have been more than the $200 Neo Geo titles cost. The Neo Geo was never intended to be a mainstream product. It was a niche system and any sales garnered from the home version of the system were just a bonus.
Now the Neo Geo CD was the system intended to make head way in the mainstream market. It did fail but that is another topic all together.
