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[Anonymous No.6399338]

>Every game has hentai scenes in it (even when the games themselves are platformers, shooters, ect)
>US version had only 1/4 the games the Japanese version had
This console could have been huge. Why didn't 80% of it's games get ported?

[Anonymous No.6399353]

>>6399338
No money, poor planning, Sega and Nintendo being chads.

[Anonymous No.6399395]

>>6399353
>No money, poor planning
This is pretty much it. You'll notice it's just been Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony for almost 20 years now because they know what they're doing and have the resources for it, for better or worse.

[Anonymous No.6399404]

>>6399338
Wasn't it too expensive? The graphics weren't really good either since it had 8 bit architecture.

[Anonymous No.6399467]

TTI being formed to exile an NEC executive is a major factor here

[Anonymous No.6399967]

NEC's North American division had zero clue how to market a video game console, they should have done what Sega did with Kalinske and bring people in from the toy industry that knew how to market to kids and their parents with the money, instead NEC's rebranding wVibeswas obviously a bunch of old, out-of-touch fucks pandering to what they THINK kids want and respond to.
https://youtu.be/cVJtxJcFfHI

[Anonymous No.6399972]

>>6399467
go on...

[Anonymous No.6400554]

>>6399338
The games we did get in the US weren't as good as what can be got on genesis and snes. It still had good games but still, these are facts. Also the western console should have been the same design imo. Nothing was wrong with it, it looks superior in fact.

[The Aero Blasters guy No.6400636]

PC Engine could have been the next big console and could have been the 4th competitor. I really wish it was, Aero Blasters was the shiz.

[Anonymous No.6400659]

>>6399967
I read somewhere that most of the people at NEC America were former Atari employees. No, I don’t have a source for that but it makes sense given what a great job they did.

Pic related Victory Run. A TurboGrafx 16 game about driving your red Cadillac convertible to Paris? Some Boomer was like “Its got a car on the cover, don’t it? Ship it!”

[Anonymous No.6400682]

>>6400659
This is the original cover, it accurately conveys that Victor Run is a rally raid game.

[Anonymous No.6400723]

>>6399404
It was slightly cheaper than the Genesis at launch. But the system nickel and dime’d you. You had to buy a TurboTap so you can play games with your little brother. A TurboBooster to hook it up to “the good TV”. And the controller wires were 3 feet long. Plus anyone who had played Shinobi or Sonic the Hedgehog could easily see it was NOT a 16-bit system. There’s a lot of nostalgia for the system now, but at the time it just looked cheap.

[Anonymous No.6400965]

>>6400723
From a consumer standpoint yeah, not having a second controller port, not including a second controller packed in, and making RCA composite outputs be a "sold separately" item really made a bunch of moms recoil and go with the Genesis or SNES later by-default.

[Anonymous No.6400971]

Yet another "I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about but I'm gonna speak authoritatively on the subject based on sketchy info I read once, years ago" /vr/ thread.
Sage.

[Anonymous No.6400979]

>>6400971
But he’s right about the hentai

[Anonymous No.6400991]

>>6400971
He isn’t wrong though? Can you refute any of that? It was a good system with some good game’s but compared to even a NES it was lacking.

[Anonymous No.6401023]

>>6399338
Why didn’t 80% of its games get ported?

Probably because of the hentai you’re imagining exists in every game.

[Anonymous No.6401035]

>>6400554
The games we got in the US weren't even as good as the games Japan got regularly. It's bizarre how many quality games weren't localized and released in favor of trash like Keith Courage.

[Anonymous No.6401127]

>>6399338
There was hardly any anime in the US at that time. You had to look for it in specialty/import shops. It was rare, most kids thought it was gay with a few exceptions (Star Blazers, Robotech). So why would NEC release obscure Jap stuff that Americans have never heard of, on a tiny install base?

[Anonymous No.6401131]

>>6400971
This. Besides, /vr/ is pretty much /nintendo/ at this point anyway.

[Anonymous No.6401412]

>>6401127
Exactly why it failed. The pack-in game was precisely obscure Jap stuff based on a shit manga. Bonk's adventure would have sold more consoles, and lets not forget how NEC turned down Mortal Kombat exclusivity.
Complete mismanagement from start to finish.

[Anonymous No.6401852]

>>6400971
What, exactly, do you think is incorrect so far? Be specific.

[Anonymous No.6401875]

>>6401131
Im not a nincel, a snoy, or a segay, but i know that this console was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.6401925]

>>6401875
>uses incrediably queer words like nincel snoy segay
>mentally underage virgin still fighting le console wars of 1995

[Anonymous No.6401963]

>>6401925
Whatever you say boomer!

[Anonymous No.6402062]

>>6401963
boomers are 60+yrs old
retard zoomy zooms think it means 30+
yup he's full retard

[Anonymous No.6403862]

>>6400979
>PC-98 screenshot

[Anonymous No.6404367]

>>6400979
Retard

[Anonymous No.6404681]

Much of the Japanese library were anime tie-ins whose appeal would be completely lost on Americans, so there's no point in bringing those over. And later on there were a ton of CD games with heavy amounts of voice acting as that became the console's niche, as the TurboCD didn't do nearly as well stateside as it did in Japan it wouldn't be worth the extensive localization required to bring them over.

[Anonymous No.6404703]

>>6404681
TurboCD only didn't do as well in North America because NEC already shit the bed with the launch of the core system.

[Anonymous No.6404720]

>>6401925
>nincel snoy segay
Who the fuck even says this shit. It's nintoddler, sonigger and basedbois.

[Anonymous No.6404905]

>>6399404
>The graphics weren't really good
the graphics weren't good because of the small card sizes, the PC Engine and Mega Drive are roughly comparable in power

[Anonymous No.6405737]

>>6400979
Exquisite bait, anon.

[Anonymous No.6406753]

>>6404681
>Much of the Japanese library were anime tie-ins whose appeal would be completely lost on Americans
what matters is the core game, games like Decap Attack (Magical Hat), Mystic Defender (Kujaku Ou), Shatterhand (Super Rescue Solbrain) and many others from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras were anime or tokusatsu tie-ins with a new name and some edited graphics. Keith Courage in Alpha Zones itself was an anime tie-in too in Japan

[Anonymous No.6408948]

>>6400723
Keith Courage was the worst possible pack-in game they could have chosen. Should have come with Legendary Axe, Alien Crush, or R-TYPE to stand out at the beginning.

[Anonymous No.6408976]

>>6404905
>PC Engine and Mega Drive are roughly comparable in power
On paper yes, but PC Engine had an 8 bit architecture while the Megadrive is fully 16 bit. Less bottleneck.

[Anonymous No.6408985]

>>6404905
I'd say the PC-Engine only became as powerful with the SuperGrafx. That added an extra scrolling background layer which brought it up to par with the Mega Drive.

[Anonymous No.6409453]

>>6408985
It's so weird because NEC clearly intended the Supergrafx to be the answer to the Mega Drive and upcoming Super Famicom, they were really a victim of their own success with the PC Engine CD becoming way more popular then they'd probably initially planned and killing any chance of a "real" 16-bit HU-card successor.

[Anonymous No.6409582]

>>6399338
>Nintendo's 3rd party monopoly.
>Not bringing the Super Grafix hardware to North America instead.
>Not having the CD's ram, hardware and bios included out of the box so that all you need is a normal off the shelf CD drive.
>No built in multi tap.
>No S-Video & RGB unless modded.
>Blazing Lazers should of been the pack in game.
>Short controller cables.
Thats why it bombed in the west.

[Anonymous No.6409582,1]

>>6402062
Yup, find retard incel