/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3310408
It very well might be. It's a poor design decision regarless, and anyone who sees it running and knows what the games are going to look like are going to be turned off by it.

The Neo Geo X did the same thing. They assumed that because 16:9 screens are valued by TV customers, they could make the Neo Geo X seem like a better value by including one, even though it made the games look bad and was just wasted real estate if you put the games in 4:3 mode. That unit was such a clusterfuck that SNK withdrew the license for it and ordered the hardware licensee to stop manufacturing it.

They put all their resources into its presentation as a piece of merchandise, and so very little into the actual hardware engineering that it was damaging to the Neo Geo brand.