Business as usual

The piece below about Taito's NESiCAxLive system got me thinking how all these small time companies can just throw all their games up there and not have to worry about hardware licensing or distribution deals. Then, something like Chaos Code might finally come to market. This would also kill off the recent trend of PC-in-a-box arcade "boards" that everyone has been announcing at trade shows lately. So much for that idea. The newly announced Koi Hime Musou 2D fighter will ship on AQI's new Neo Standard system. "Standard" is right, it's a low-end PC with a Core 2 Duo G6950 processor, 2GB's of DDR3 RAM, and a GeForce 220 video card. The only innovation, and single most expensive component, is the 16GB SSD (~$360). Why would any arcade op bother buying this? Will there ever be a new title released for this system? At this rate we're back to the dedicated board model, which was what systems like the Neo Geo MVS and CPS(-2) moved the industry away from. Shaking. My. Head.