SNK Neo Geo USA site launches!

[Yoshi]

No problem. I believe the rosters for the TriForce and Chihiro are short right now...

TriForce - Star Fox (Namco), Virtua Striker (Sega), F-Zero (Sega)
Chihiro - Outrun (Sega), Virtua Cop 3 (Sega)

I notice a pattern...

[Lhadatt]

Originally posted by Click_Stick
You mean... Develop some new CD hardware? I think it's too costly in the long run. Besides, aren't we trying to move away from the old hardware? Or wouldn't we like them to, I should say.

I wasn't thinking with my last post. I meant to say that they might want to go with an enhanced-CD system if they wanted to market a low-cost arcade setup (the "classic" line I was talking about). Better yet, they could just offer it directly to gamers over their website. Publicize it in various places (banner ads on Gamespot, ads in magazines, etc.) and they ought to get a decent amount of buyers. Their big problem with such things has been capital -- they did this with the Pocket and managed to get it into stores, but once they ran out of money it all imploded. If they had been able to stay in the market longer, they might have seen some decent profits.

Under $150? Which auction were you looking at? Anyway, yea... The original Metal Slug home cart usually goes for over $2,000. Friggin collectors. It's rare, yea... but collectors are mentally ill, in addition. MS2 and X aren't too cheap, either. They're in the 4-500 range, I think. The MVS carts are another story, of course. They're only a fraction of the price... Loose MS, MS2, and MS2 MVS carts are all under $100 each.

Sorry, I was thinking of loose MVS carts but didn't specify it in the post. That's why I mentioned putting price caps on retailers -- yeah, that won't stop collectors, but if they keep a steady stream of merchandise to the retailers, the collectors won't have much of a chance to mark up. That again goes back to getting the systems out there -- and quite frankly, if they were able to get their unit production high enough to lower overall costs, they could sell new high-memory carts for $80 -- people were paying close to that for high-memory SNES, Genesis and N64 carts at various points...

It's all just a pipe dream, but this really kind of illustrates some of the business opporuntities SNK just plain screwed up on...

[Korly]

For updating temporally close

[gameoverDude]

A good idea for SNK would be a system I'll call the "Neo-HDD". Basically it would be their counterpart to the Ultracade but with Neo-Geo games only, and using the real Neo hardware.

The games could come on CDs, and this special Neo board could be interfaced with a good size high speed HDD (probably 40 GB) and enough RAM to hold the highest Meg game. High score saves could probably be done via Flash Ram or a second smaller HDD.

Installing a game would be almost as much of a snap as changing an MVS cart. Instead of the 6 game maximum you see on the MVS, an operator could run a cab with a virtually unlimited selection.

SNK could turn a hell of a profit on this, since CDs are cheaper to make- and they could price the games lower to draw interest from the operators. Operators who flinch at the thought of a new MVS cart costing $1,200+ may probably bite if they can get a CD version for $600 or less. The older games could be released on multi-game packs like Ultracade.

[BonusKun]

I'm going to pull a Master and tell you that in regards to SNK in the U.S. I'm aware of some changes that will be happening in about 17 months that will probably shock a few people.

Going to be weird times indeed...

[Lhadatt]

Yay! More nebulous posting about something that's going down in a year and a half! I can hardly wait!

So, I'm curious. Is this good? Bad? What, are they trying to put out a cheap-o home system or a new portable or something?

[Click_Stick]

http://www.snkneogeo.com.hk/

Let's see who can find the best Engrish first.

Oh yes, there definitely is A best.

[Korly]

SNK NEOGEO KING OF FIGHTERS REMIX COMIC VOL.1~2 (HONGKONG CHINESE VERSION NOW IN STORE)
" NGPC","KOF R-1" and "KOF R-2" became fashionable porn in the exceptional pop portable game machine, fighting game & comic in the young generation of Hong Kong & Taiwan before several years ago.
Go through SNK's various disturbance, however in warming support of KOF FANS hold scorching the hottest red flame will not go out at this point!!
Now weave from "Ricky" write the 3th "KOF R" series in comic edition "KING OF FIGHTERS R-X" is already formal put order to the market by Rightman publishing limited!
Also, in this September, the 4th series "KOF R" the will begin a serial in "Co-Co!" be-weekly comic book , and the title is "KING OF FIGHTERS R-X Project ' 00 " ! Who like KOF official license comic in high quality vegetarian is absolutely will not be miss!

© 2001 By Rightman Publishing Ltd./ Chu Chun Yu






I win.

[Josh]

I am speechless...

[Click_Stick]

Originally posted by Korly

I win.

You sure do.

Gotta love them, eh?