the PC-FX launched, Famicom Tsūshin awarded the console an 18 out of 40, one point lower than the score it gave the PlayStation. A writer for Ultimate Future Games in April 1995 said the PC-FX had impressively competitive hardware, but its game library relied largely on animation over gameplay, so readers should "[not] expect much just yet". Game Criticism writers believed the system was troubled by a weak software lineup and a lack of innovation and creativity from NEC, and served as an unsuitable and inferior follow-up to the PC Engine. Notes References CD-ROM-based consoles Home video game consoles Fifth-generation video game consoles Japan-only video game hardware NEC consoles Hudson Soft Products introduced in 1994 1990s toys