How so?

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Posted by Paleface on May 26, 2020 at 20:51:55 EST in reply to elsewhere we've been discussing whether the NGPC could've lived on, and what that would've looked like. Of course the ultimate answer when you look back is the thing never had a chance, but it's still interesting to think about I guess!? from exodus.

How so?

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Boy, did I think that was clever. What I suppose I should say is, in the impossible scenario that it happened, wouldn't a NGPC2 have been more or less a GBA with a clicky stick, essentially? Before the GBA, you could certainly have argued that SNK needed to make their own hardware in order to bring the ARCADE ACTION FEEL to life on a portable, but the GBA was more than powerful enough for whatever they'd have needed to do.

(Paleface)

(01:32:38 05/27/20 EST)

well the actual NGPC2 was the "neo geo pocket 64" right? so who knows what that would've looked like. I really think what they needed was third party support.

(exodus)

(13:35:40 05/27/20 EST)

: o What is this NGP64? : ooo And yes, thinking this thread over this morning, I came to that same conclusion about needing some big developers to sign on--but that doesn't happen because they were all happy on Nintendo's portables--and that's where the importance of being #1 that Zeta is scoffing it really comes in. It was fine and all for us getting SNK and 2nd party games, but that being just about all the dev support there was, there was no chance to survive.

(Paleface)

(15:42:20 05/27/20 EST)

did I make that up!? maybe I did. I know there was a second model planned! but maybe I invented the "64" aspect. uhhhhhhhhhhhh hmmm.

(exodus)

(17:41:05 05/27/20 EST)

Well so what was this second model?

(Paleface)

(18:59:13 05/27/20 EST)

sorry, it was 32 bit! but here in 2020 I can also imagine this was just marketing guys in the west saying some words regardless of what was actually going on. I'll get to the bottom of this eventually!

(exodus)

(17:48:25 05/29/20 EST)

The conclusion drawn in that article is mystifying to me. The quotes they use call it "the successor to the NeoGeo" and "a next-generation system"--no reference at all to a handheld, but the 1999 IGN writers decided this must have meant a handheld system. It isn't that hard to describe a handheld as a handheld. It's kind of key. I don't think this was about a handheld--not from those quotes.

(Paleface)

(00:42:55 05/30/20 EST)

I remember we talked about it a bunch here - this was just the only article I could find. It's likely there was nothing at all in production, but there were more sources, I thiiiiink.

(exodus)

(21:40:23 05/31/20 EST)

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