What went wrong?
Sabotaged
>>12390701They sat on 1992 hardware for a couple years, then released a console with no 3D capability the same time as the Saturn and PlayStation at a higher price point. Simple as.
>>12390702This actually. *adopts Alec Guinness voice*>~It was during the RAM wars, Luke, long before the ROM wars.~>~And they were good friends.~
As when any time a major technological change comes, companies that don't adopt it die a quick death.
>>12390701>PC engine was old>PC-FX was a flop>Pc-98... I don't know, regular windows got better or something like that.
I'm not Japanese enough to have people with opinions I can parrot for this one
>>12390701IBM of Japan happened. DOS/V finally bridged the divide between the western IBM PC and the Japanese language. It sounds like an amazing success for late 80s/early 90s IBM of anywhere, so obviously something retarded was brewing. It actually worked on any IBM compatible, something the development team hid from the higher-ups as most of the company would wisely want to kill the project prematurely. After getting the OK from the boss of IBM of the West they gave the source code to the devil (Microsoft, Japan) who sold it to anyone thus introducing the one thing NEC feared, cheap gaijinputers compatibles.And so the crumbling of NEC's final bastion began with the groundwork being layed for the mass adoption of the Windows 9x haymaker.
>>12390701They released the PC-FX
>>12390834Certified IBM moment.
>>12390701They missed the 3d boat just like the rest of the LOSERS
>>12390701That NEC logo was kind of ugly. The later one was much better.
>>12390834The way I heard it, early on PC-98 mogged DOS/V in Japanese text drawing speed so Japanese word processing and spreadsheets were more pleasant to work on on PC-98Then later I guess newer hardware bruteforced away that difference
>>12392319https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDum5PahIlM
>>12392319Yeah, it retained its market share quite well and really just pushed out the few other native designs that were eeking out an existence. The big thing DOS/V did was be a real alternative which allowed more international computers onto the market.A response to this was the 9821 which is a half-breed between a "true" PC-98 and an IBM compatible focused on being "Windows compatible". It did the job fine, but it did have some incompatibilities on both ends of the spectrum. Windows 9x now had an in on that userbase without having to make as many changes to the hardware. In turn this meant Windows 9x would largely work the same which means there's no reason to buy a new NEC PC specifically, NEC was hoping their brand would carry them through. Combine that with software becoming much more platform agnostic (Windows 9x) and people will take you for your word and buy the cheaper PCs as "they are all the same anyway". It's fair to say DOS/V was the catalyst, but if DOS/V never happened I'm sure Microsoft would've found a way to get IBM WIntel dominance in Japan.
>>12392373as many changes for the hardware*, of course.
>>12390790>*adopts Alec Guinness voice**holds up spork* LOLZ EPIC!
>>12390705This, the only reason the PC-FX doesn't get mentioned more often in the discussion of big hardware flops is because it flopped so bad most people don't even know it ever existed.
>>12390705>>12392520>The console was launched in Japan on December 23, 1994 at the price of ¥49,800. By comparison, the Saturn was launched at ¥44,800 and PlayStation was launched at ¥39,800 in Japan. Is there even a word for this level of product suicide because I don't think flop adequately covers this level of retardation.
>>12392596Seems pretty reasonable for NEC, normally they slap another 100K on top of the next comparable product.
>>12392596The console looks pretty cool though. I wish the saturn came in a case like that.
>>12390705Wasn't there a tentative attempt at creating a 3D card add-on for it? Which got shitcanned after the abysmal sales performance.
