Duo-RX rarity and price

[majors]

The OG Duos look better in my opinion, and that headphones jack!

What he said. Having a RX and Duo(and briefcase and Shuttle) in my console shelf, I prefer the low profile design of the Duo.

You can lead a horse to water but you can change the mind of a potential RX buyer.

[elmer]

SGX support wouldn't have been cost effective at all, would have been awesome though...

Built in ACD support should have been a no-brainer though.

Not really seeing why you think that and extra 2MB of RAM and a custom mapper would have been so much cheaper than 64KB of RAM and a 2nd VDC chip!

But really, as was pointed-out ... it was NEC's chance to get some attention for releasing a cheap hardware-refresh just before the Playstation/Saturn/PC-FX came out.

Cost was absolutely everything with the Duo-RX, and being able to play all the popular existing games ... thus putting in a 6-button controller for the fighting-game crowd.

[Dicer]

SGX support wouldn't have been cost effective at all, would have been awesome though...

Built in ACD support should have been a no-brainer though.

Not really seeing why you think that and extra 2MB of RAM and a custom mapper would have been so much cheaper than 64KB of RAM and a 2nd VDC chip!

But really, as was pointed-out ... it was NEC's chance to get some attention for releasing a cheap hardware-refresh just before the Playstation/Saturn/PC-FX came out.

Cost was absolutely everything with the Duo-RX, and being able to play all the popular existing games ... thus putting in a 6-button controller for the fighting-game crowd.

Simply based on direction of software at the time, SGX was all but dead...adding that bit of hardware would have been a waste, had the SGX gained more traction then it would have been a decision to make at that time.

I do like the OG duo, but I think I prefer my Duo-R's shape just a bit more, it's more...aero-dynamic 

[SignOfZeta]

The SGX wasn't all but dead, it was totally %100 dead dead dead. All SGX games were released between 89 and 91. The Duo RX didn't come out until...what, 93, 94?

It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then. The PCE itself was all but dead.

[Necromancer]

It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then.

Only if you say the Arcade Card was still born and never lived at all.  Only three of the dozen AC games came out between the AC's release (March '94) and the RX release (June '94), and a similar ratio is found in release dates of AC enhanced SCD games.

[esteban]

It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then.

Only if you say the Arcade Card was still born and never lived at all.  Only three of the dozen AC games came out between the AC's release (March '94) and the RX release (June '94), and a similar ratio is found in release dates of AC enhanced SCD games.

Obviously, still a work in progress, but this might help out the ACD timeline:

http://archives.tg-16.com/Dengeki_PC_Engine_1994_03.htm#complete_list_of_acd_games

[shubibiman]

Unfortunately, the price of the Duo-RX has been sky-rocketting of late.

A new RX was sold 70 000 yens on Yahoo Auction a couple of weeks ago. 

[richc]

Yeah I checked yaj and they are expensive there too.  Checking sold ones on eBay are all over the place.  Can't believe I missed one last month fully modded for 399.

[elmer]

Unfortunately, the price of the Duo-RX has been sky-rocketting of late.

A new RX was sold 70 000 yens on Yahoo Auction a couple of weeks ago. 

Definitely a sign that retro-gaming is "cool" at the moment. I expect that it will pass in a year or two, just like every fad.

But still ... as horrible as that price is, a $700 new RX is IMHO a better deal than the $1,600 that I saw someone pay for a used MSX Turbo R on eBay last week!

[geise]

Why the RX?  Is it the pad?  The color scheme?  I'm just curious.  I've got an RX and Im pretty indifferent to using it or any other system.  The OG Duos look better in my opinion, and that headphones jack!

There's no headphone jack on an RX?

[pulstar]

On the original Duo's have headphone jacks. It was removed on the Duo-R and Duo-RX.