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Post by screenpedia on Jun 29, 2021 0:03:12 GMT
I am looking for the date or sometime in the year that the Supergrafx was discontinued.
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Post by Black_Tiger on Jul 1, 2021 16:31:32 GMT
They only made one batch of hardware and one run of each game. The date of the final game release is the discontinuation date.
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Post by Black_Tiger on Jul 1, 2021 16:31:59 GMT
They only made one batch of hardware and one run of each game. The date of the final game release is the discontinuation date.
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Post by screenpedia on Jul 1, 2021 23:28:42 GMT
They only made one batch of hardware and one run of each game. The date of the final game release is the discontinuation date. But did they discontinue it earlier and just sell through the remaining stock?
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Post by dshadoff on Jul 2, 2021 1:01:56 GMT
I don't think they ever announced a discontinuation... they just stopped announcing new titles, at which point it was de-facto "dead".
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Post by SignOfZeta on Jul 4, 2021 1:11:08 GMT
When I first joined the Turbo Mailing List...maybe 1995 or 1996, it was still possible to buy brand new SGX systems for $75 in Japan. Much like the TG-16, no discontinuation was needed. They only ever ran the machine once and nobody even bought those.
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Post by screenpedia on Jul 7, 2021 0:22:20 GMT
So it sounds like they made an initial run and was waiting for it to sell through before doing another run but this never happened.
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Post by screenpedia on Jul 7, 2021 0:24:08 GMT
When I first joined the Turbo Mailing List...maybe 1995 or 1996, it was still possible to buy brand new SGX systems for $75 in Japan. Much like the TG-16, no discontinuation was needed. They only ever ran the machine once and nobody even bought those. Were these direct from NEC?
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Post by dshadoff on Jul 7, 2021 0:37:20 GMT
I don't think NEC ever sold direct to users. But there was a lot of leftover stock which was sitting in stores. Whether these were still sitting around since an original purchase at/near the time of release, or whether they were picked up at a later date by the stores as a result of distributor discounts, is unclear. When I visited Japan in 1997, there were still occasional discoloured SuperGrafx boxes in display cases since who-knows-when, and the odd dusty box with a new unit sitting in a corner.
It was common for Japanese shops to have stock that aged for years, that was either desperately still asking for original price, or some sort of a money/space crisis which caused dramatic discounts suddenly; I recall picking up literally hundreds of games at that time, many still new-in-box, for less than 1000 yen each. It was basically weird gaijin like myself who were buying the stuff, because the locals were looking at the newer generations.
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Post by SignOfZeta on Jul 7, 2021 4:12:11 GMT
When I first joined the Turbo Mailing List...maybe 1995 or 1996, it was still possible to buy brand new SGX systems for $75 in Japan. Much like the TG-16, no discontinuation was needed. They only ever ran the machine once and nobody even bought those. Were these direct from NEC? In the story that I barely remember, no. It was a shop that had a bunch of them and they were also bundling games for a good price...maybe all of them actually? I can’t remember. I was tempted but young and broke and so I didn’t leap on it and continued to focus on the SuperCD, which has worked out well. If I had actually bought the thing I would have sold it years ago, certainly by now since a complete set of games and system has to be worth $1500 to collectards in 2021...despite the extremely underwhelming reality of the SuperGrafx.
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