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Posted by substance J on May 31, 2020 at 13:10:21 EST in reply to 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). (n/t) from exodus.

So what's the ultimate goal of analyzing this? That's an actual question, but my implied tone of skepticism could be summarized this way: if I'm going to imagine a scenario where the NGPC becomes successful, what criteria are appropriate to define that? Whether the NGPC was profitable or not, how can we understand the economic environment at SNK? There is anecdotal information from people who were there, and I assume SNK was publicly traded, so Japan's version of the SEC probably required a certain amount of financial disclosure. But that information doesn't help us comprehend the opportunity cost of developing and supporting the NGPC. It could have been profitable and still tanked, or a money loser that kept people employed.
 
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