PC-FX preview from EGM2

[handygrafx]

[drdre]

Faxes on t.v., no wonder it failed....

Really cool article tho, thanks for the post

[DJLobo]

Cool, thanks for posting this.

[geepee16]

thanks for posting this!  i think i acutally had this issue but, i do not recall any mention of the FX being able to receive faxes!  that's unusual (and largely unnecessary considering how big e-mail became right after launch).  the possible addition of a polygon processor makes sense as it was included with the FXGA card.  the 500,000 units in their first year was unrealistic as hell.  the PC Engine didn't even do that and it was nowhere near 50,000 yen. NEC could have and should have done better with the FX considering the tremendous momentum they had going into the 32bit war  but, their marketing department blew it.  they wound up with a nice 5% of the japanese market which wsa better than some of the competitors like the 3Do but considering the PCE had over 35%, we can only assume they were disappointed.  at least they stuck with it long enough to get some excellent titles and didn't repeat the SGX fiasco.

[Mednafen]

I thought the 3DO was fairly popular in Japan?

[geepee16]

actually, it did poorly.  not even the hentai games got a lot of attention over there.  matsushita/panasonic pushed hard for it to succeed and just kept funding it in the hopes that it would turn around but they ultimately called it quits.  the 3do did much better outside of japan though.

[Grandmaster]

the bottom part of that page is a boogerman ad  . kinda gross.

i remember egm 2 though...  pretty good magazine, or maybe it was just a great time for video games in general and there was so much to cover in emerging gaming technology.