amigas get ignored as if you publish an artical mentioning it in anything but glowing terms, its a surefire way to get your butt chewed by indignant users writing in to complain :-D :lol:
another idea, is that the amount of marketing the machines had at the time seems directly proportional to the amount of mindshare they have in the current day.
amiga seemed to be purely word of mouth, where as, sony had/has quite a bit more marketing clout. i bet even the people in the poorest parts of the world that run tv's off of car batteries have probably heard or even seen/played a gen1 playstation
speaking from a european perspective, i never saw a PC engine turboGraphx16, and the Neogeo was a fantasy machine that no-one could afford :-D but it wouldn't surprise me. the timeline for consoles that used optical storage i know about are (from what i can figure):-
1989 - philips CDi / FM Towns
1991 - Sega MegaCD (genesis CD) / Commodore CDTV / FM Towns Marty
1993 - 3DO / CD32
1995 - Sega Saturn / Sony Playstation
1997 - Projected date for 3DO's M2 but was shelved afaik
1999 - Nintendo Gamecube / Sega Dreamcast / Sony Playstation2
2002 - Microsoft Xbox
2004 - Nintendo Wii
2005 - Microsoft Xbox360
2006 - Sony Playstation3
