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archbrix on 01 April 2011
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CGI-Quality said:
d21lewis said:

it's already been clarified but I've already put on all of my gear, left my office, and am now standing on a fucking roof so I'm gonna post, anyway:

You can't just omit history to suit an argument.  Just like how devices like the wonderswan never rreached critical success or the neo geo pocket didn't set the world on fire, they competed (poorly) against the Gameboy.  The Neo Geo, CDi, 3DO, and even the goddam Jaguar tried to fight Nintendo for the crown.  If you want, I'll dig up their ads degrading the snes and genesis.  They were more powerful.  They competed and failed.  There's no specific definiton for competition.  The most powerful system has NEVER won.  The OP is 100% correct.

*Goes back indoors*

You honestly think the Neo-Geo was priced and situated in a competent manner to even begin to deal with Nintendo? Really? The system was mishandled to the max, it wasn't even available in markets that Nintendo systems were. I'm not sure how you can even begin to realistically defend that at all. That's not competing, it's existing in a state where you make little to no dent on the video game market. The SNES & Megadrive were the 16-bit era, and the more powerful SNES beat the Megadrive. Period.

IMO, this is a bit of a grey area.

I do agree with CGI that Neo-Geo was priced and situated out of the realm of the competition, in that there was no hope for it to compete succesfully...

However living in the US, I used to see Neo-Geo all the time at Babbage's (where I always bought my games), and in EGM every month; those places treated it just like one of the systems on the market (in fact, it actually launched before the SNES), so I personally have always proclaimed what the OP is saying as well.