| Leynos said: And there is a reason CDi/3DO failed. Aside from crap libraries but also insane prices. 700 bucks. 1400 or so today. The only outlier to that is NEO GEO AES. That made sense it was the peak era of Arcades and Arcades were generally much more powerful than consoles. So a system as powerful as an Arcade made sense at 600 bucks. It was for a niche enthusiast market. Games are not capable is running on anything else at the time aside from an Arcade machine. The added bonus was you could take your save data via a memory card to an arcade. |
My aunt bought a CDi, what a pos that was already back then. Cool tech for the time maybe but nothing fun to play on it.
Amiga 500 launched in 1987, amazing system, yet $700 as well. It was much more than a console, it was basically a gaming computer. (And blew PCs out of the water back then when it came to games)
That's another plus point, lot more choice between distinct hardware systems. Now there's really no significant different between a Series X and PS5. and Switch the only dedicated handheld.
The cheaper systems (PS and Nintendo) went on, the rest went bust. Dreamcast the exception, launched at $199 in 1998, only lasted 3 years. (But what a fun 3 years those were!)
