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Posted by exodus on May 27, 2020 at 13:40:59 EST in reply to I think the idea that a console has to “win” is stupid. Things that don’t make #1 aren’t failures. You don’t go out of business because you were only #3. There is no demon that comes out at night and takes all the low volume publishers to hell. In fact, after #1 auto OEM General Motors went bankrupt they specially said they don’t care about sales rank anymore. It’s expensive! You have to basically give cars away to rental agencies and cops etc to stay #1. After FCA and Peugeot merge GM will be #5 but in way better shape. The good companies like Honda and VW flirt with #1 but usually stay around #4. SNK was never #1 as a NES publisher, as an arcade vendor, as an OEM, etc. “Could they beat Nintendo...” why the fuck does anyone even care? Now obviously the NGP itself could have made a bit more money if the asses at Playmore hadn’t taken it off the market completely at its peak and it would have been very interesting to at least see it outlive the Swan. If it lived long enough the only Neo Geo Pocket 2 that anyone would have ever needed would just be an actual portable Neo which they could run though...what looks like forever at this point. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.

I have no idea if it was really at its peak, my impression was it was bleeding money for the company, and what I've been told by devs is they hated working on it (which is why more stuff started getting outsourced to companies like yumekobo). Eventually I'll get the straight answer to this, but I think it was a money-losing venture from the start basically - with car companies they have venues other than sales with which to recoup, and maybe that's what SNK needed to look into. Package the thing with some happy meals and give it away at coachella or something (I'm using my 1999 brain here).
 
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