Should there be a new powerful dedicated 2D/arcade console?

[rolins]

In terms of 2D and retro-gaming, the future is in FPGA. It's a chip that can be programed to fully emulate hardware right down to the circuit-level. Very amazing really. Any one heard of Kevin Horton and his Nes on FPGA. He was able to re-create the Nes on FGPA which is highly accurate, even better than those nes clones on the market. He even implement about 170+ memory mappers so nearly every nes and famicom can be played from rom files stored on SD flash cards. Its not for sale and it costed Kevin $350 to make a prototype, but I really hope this goes into production.

http://tripoint.org/kevtris/Projects/console/

[TR0N]

nah!
what we need is a company bought the license and release reworked NeoGeo in more compact and at much much lower price with all the back catalogue in wallet friendly price - say $25-30 per pop and if you buy 4-5 titles at once transaction you get the console for free otherwise $45+ per unit...

he he

Agreed not every body has "deep pockets" for the current, AES and not every body feels like spending the kind, of $ for a MVS set up either.