It was basically intended to play pre-rendered cutscenes. That's all it did. Oh sure it had good sprite capability but... the dating sims and FMV games that shipped probably didn't need that.

Sold 400,000 (JP only)…more than Jaguar

>>11832337
I know and that's admirable. But it killed their gaming system efforts, just like Jaguar.

>>11832337
Becomes less impressive when you remember its predecessor sold 8 million in Japan alone.

>>11831648 (OP)
To be fair those are the games that were popular on Japanese PCs at the time. Ports of those kind of games to the Saturn and PS were selling extremely well. They just overestimated how many consoles they could sell targeting that niche market.

>>11832379
I'm not even saying it should have been 3D, but a Japan only release? It's like admitting defeat ahead of time.

>>11832389
Given the games they released on it keeping it Japan only was the right move, it would have been a waste of money to try and sell it here

>>11832414
There was no way to make the money back with a Japan only release. It's unheard of not to try.

>>11831648 (OP)
>it had good sprite capability
can you run neo geo ports on it?

>>11832481
I mean theoretically? No. It had only PCM sound and a sort of sample-based audio. No FM.

It had a lot of capability, lots of registers and RAM. But little software and no good dev tools.

I wish we at least saw sequels to PC Engine classics like Bonk on there

>>11832490
a pity. i believe a 2d-only console could have still worked back then, but you had to rely on arcade ports, of course. they really messed up bad on the fx.

>>11832389
They had a 3D tech demo and just decided that FMV was the future in the end anyway.

>>11832512
It had an expansion port for which they were actually making a 3D GPU when the thing got shit canned.

>>11831648 (OP)
Imagine the pc-engine had a genuinely good 32-bit successor...

>>11832531
Playstation.

>>11832363
Also sold more than 12 million

>>11831648 (OP)
Is this the "how do we save the PC-FX" thread?
NEC should have partnered with Nintendo JP to make the SNES CD

>>11831648 (OP)
>I'm surprised they released this.

>From the same people that released a system then only made 5 games for it.

>>11832512
Is there a video of this tech demo?

>>11832831
>NEC should have partnered with Nintendo JP to make the SNES CD
nintendo would have never allowed all the cool more or less ecchi games on the pc-cd.

>>11832975
There was ecchi games on NES
>>11832531
Iron Man M2

>>11831648 (OP)
They didn't, really. They sold it in Japan only presumably to try to recoup some of the cost. Wasn't sold anywhere else, and wasn't released when it was supposed to be released.

>>11833765
Wouldn't you recoup the cost better if you sold more by selling them to the USA at least, the world's biggest market at that time?

>>11832492
the only hudson sequel it got was a power league game that looks like shit, used digitized sprites
n64 got some "sequels". bomberman hero originally was supposed to be a bonk game. the really mediocre star soldier n64 game is a direct sequel to soldier blade, story wise

>>11832831
Kek la Kekkin

>>11831648 (OP)
Finally otaku discuss

>>11832492
Unfortunately Red Company had moved on to the Saturn and brought their good game making abilities with them

>>11834605
There was no market for what the PCFX was selling in the USA.

>>11835917
>There was no market for what the PCFX was selling in the USA

there wasnt even a market in japan
when ai cho aniki was being in released on pce back in 95 (when system was on its last legs), magazines mentioned japanese players complaining about the lack of new shooters.
the pc-fx literally only has a single shooter

>>11832850
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GCC6PE-rMV4
This is not really being done by the PC-FX hardware desu, it's purely software rendering.
This is the PC-FXGA board running on a Pentium-ish rig