SNK Neo-Geo X

[Atticus]

Can anyone with a system share what the picture quality is like through HDMI (presumably on an LCD TV)?

[SuperDanX]

Amazon.com order just arrived. No stepdown needed.

Impressions when you get a chance please.

As for picture quality via HDMI I've heard reports vary from great to poor. A lot will depend on your TV, it's settings and your expectations..

[Super Monkey Balls]

Not for me I'm afraid. I bought two for Xmas presents. I'll probably get a go on 25th however.
From what I've heard, HDMI output is piss poor. Consider it a handheld with a fancy charger.

[dataDave]

I love it how people like to collect blaze products all of a sudden. Gonna shelve it next to those blaze branded game cube emeory cards are we?

buzzin

[randombs]

[speedlolita]

I love it how people like to collect blaze products all of a sudden. Gonna shelve it next to those blaze branded game cube emeory cards are we?

buzzin

I feel the same about the Mad Catz sticks, even now..

[Atticus]

a handheld with a fancy charger.

I've gone cold again

[Nu-Eclipse]

Spoke to Andy @ Funstock on the phone earlier - he says that it's still possible to pre-order a NGXG set. He reckons that they'll finally be shipped from Monday with a view to being delivered by the end of the week.

[SuperDanX]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-20-blaze-explains-european-neogeo-x-gold-whereabouts

The NeoGeo X Gold retro gaming console didn't arrive on 6th December like I was told at the end of October it would.
The official UK retailer Funstock still lists the release date as "TBC (expected December 2012)" so what's going on?

I asked Blaze - the European distributor - the same question.

"Blaze and all our European distributors are collecting our stock this weekend from Asia and shipping it over Christmas to all our customers," Blaze boss Jason Cooper told me, later specifying 27th/28th December as a likely landing date. is it where is it?!

"In the UK, Funstock are our exclusive retailer for the Christmas season and they wrote to everyone to tell them 10 days ago when they would be getting theirs, so everyone who has placed an order is 100 per cent in the loop.

"Tommo [the US distributor] released the first of their stock in the US version the day before yesterday, they have totally sold out and this has been a great boost for us in Europe as it has reviewed very well and our web sales went absolutely crazy yesterday. I have not seen anything like it before."

He added: "I have received feedback today that all our distributors in Europe have now pre-sold all their stock. We have kept a quantity back for the New Year, but expect, ourselves, to be totally sold out early January."

There haven't been any PR trumpets sounding because Blaze was doused by the GameGadget experience, which featured a PR campaign that went all wrong. I investigated all of this on Halloween, coincidentally enough.

"We learnt a lesson from GameGadget," Cooper said. "This time we are doing it totally organically and the product is doing the talking.

"As it is a Limited Edition we are letting the product be the focus for the first wave of stock and that means that we can communicate directly with all our end users and distributors alike."

A "stronger" marketing campaign is roughly planned to kick off in Easter and run through to the end of 2013.

The NeoGeo X Gold retro console thingymajig is actually three devices: the main handheld, a dock that's a replica of a NeoGeo and a proper arcade stick for docked TV play. 20 NeoGeo AES games are pre-loaded.

[Nu-Eclipse]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-20-blaze-explains-european-neogeo-x-gold-whereabouts

Spoke to Andy @ Funstock on the phone earlier - he says that it's still possible to pre-order a NGXG set. He reckons that they'll finally be shipped from Monday with a view to being delivered by the end of the week.

I alluded to the Eurogamer article when I spoke to Andy. He was mystified by it, and was adamant that NGXGs were still available to pre-order for those who wanted one.

[yesteryeargames]

Gameseek are also getting stock over christmas and are slightly cheaper than funstock

[Nu-Eclipse]

Gameseek are also getting stock over christmas and are slightly cheaper than funstock

It is Funstock who are cheaper by ?15. They are selling the NGXG for ?175.

Gameseek are doing it for ?190.

[ETC]

Wow bargain at both prices, oh hang on wait a minute... no im pretty sure a ?50 Psp Go! Can do that just as well for ?170+ or whatever may as well just buy a AES

[yesteryeargames]

oh they must have put the price up it was ?170 when i orderd a few days ago.

[buster_broon]

ordering from amazon.com was cheaper than both - zing!!!! ha!

loving how its polarised people who either like it or who think its tripe - lol