Everyone always talks about how the Neo Geo was way too expensive for the casual gamer back in the day but what about some other systems that came out? I mean the Saturn was originally $ 400 which is the same price as what the AES was originally priced at. The 3do, sega cd (including Genesis), turbo cd, and psx all retailed for at least $ 300 so I don't see why $ 400 was considered such a huge investment. Okay, so the games weren't cheap either but the games were great.
Okay now a question. I had a friend who worked at Babbage's when the Neo Geo CD system came out but he doesn't remember selling any AES systems. Did they ever lower the price of the AES to move stock as they were phasing it out to make room for the CD system?
edit: I was just reading that the AES was actually closer to $ 650 which included two games and a controller.