X68000 was a home system. This system was basically the base hardware Capcom CPS Arcades were based on. The OS programmed by Hudson Soft.
FM Towns and later a console styled version was released called the Marty
PC FX despite the name it was a home console and the direct successor to the PC Engine or Turbografx16 as it was known in the west. Came out the same year as PS1 and Saturn.

Hell even the Xbox 360 itself looked almost identical to the Dell Optiplex PC used in business at the time.

X6800 and FM Towns were PCs, not consoles.

I'll give you the PC FX but that's not "quite a few". Also pulling from some obscure Japanese only hardware is cheating ;)

https://i.imgur.com/E10s3si...

We used these at Gamestop in the mid 00s. Slow POS but man they looked like a 360. Even had the inhale look.

Exactly remember the Jaguar 64. Was way ahead of its time but no good games.

You'd be surprised. The way I have my fans set-up on my desktop, there's two fans on the bottom to pull cold air in. And the liquid cooler fans for my CPU/GPU are mounted on top as the sole exhausts. I have tons of cool air coming in from the bottom. You really just need a good fan design with adequate pressure.

If I have them in my entertainment center, it's usually only one or two at a time, and they lay flat for me. If I got a XSX, I'd keep it horizontally due to what space I have available, but the heating efficiency of consoles when placed in a direction which wouldn't be considered their primary(like standing an 360 or PS3/PS4 on the vertical stand) is historically not reliable.

Vent on the side means that it's blowing the hot air into the side of the cabinet, instead of towards the back, which should have some sort of ventilation. Towards the side just helps recirculate the hot air within the cabinet. Or at least would in my set up, which is a somewhat typical entertainment center, even though I specifically picked it out among others for ventilation purposes with more, and larger areas to put things in. Most entertainment centers are nowhere near as spacious as mine and are also designed more for form over function, and assume that people have very few devices to put in them. It's harder to even find a entertainment center that can accommodate a full size receiver without cutting out the back, because so many people are moving away from such things....but I digress. It doesn't really matter where the air is pulled from, you just don't want to be pulling in hot air, and since hot air rises, pulling it in from the bottom, or front, is the best way to do that.

I don't understand what you mean by air recirculating in a cabinet, cabinets have doors and electronics that get hot don't go in small enclosed spaces.

Laying horizontally is fine. Here's a quick image I threw together to illustrate layout on a shelf. Air enters the bottom of the unit and out the top, where it deflects toward the open back of the shelf and out the front. Sure, some air would deflect up toward the top of the shelf, but warm air rises and when the air hits the top it would spread out horizontally exiting out the front and rear as well.
https://imgur.com/KAwi4t5

Here's a set up if you want to use a cabinet, but again cabinets aren't for hot electronics.

https://imgur.com/YCtbQLS

Sure. Some people have set ups that can accommodate it. Some may even find it more in line with their aesthetic. I'm talking average household though. I can look at a lot of things that are out there and think they look good, or even amazing, but I wouldn't be able to work it into the aesthetics of my house, and since so much time is spent in living rooms, people want it to look nice.

My personal entertainment center is just a Sauder-type thing I brought from some department store. It has a large open shelf that spans the whole width on top, where I keep the PS4, PS3, and X1. They're all dark consoles, in a fairly unlit space. There's enough room around all three of these with more around the PS3 since it does vent a lot from the side, and I put extra holes in the back panel to help with ventilation. Below that there are two sets of shelves on either side with glass doors that close. One holds my receiver, which I had to cut the back panel out to get the wiring for the speakers in, and my PSVR. The other side holds my UHD player, and Turbo-Duo.

Outside the PSVR, you'd notice a trend where all the devices are black, and it doesn't upset the aesthetics of the rest of the room. My wife is kind of particular about that kind of thing as it's the first room you enter from the front door.

Yeah, I could find room horizontally, as I have an open shelf still. My larger collection of games is currently still packed in boxes from where we moved a few years ago(havent't gotten around to making a new game room). The games I'd call my backlog, or games I've brought in the past three years are on a tall CD shelf in our office.

If I had my own game room, I wouldn't be as concerned about it. My game room at my older house, where we had a large basement to make it in, I built to accomadate all my consoles, designed my own entertainment center and had plenty of custom ventilation to support whatever may possibly come.

Yeah, I get what you're saying. In typical TV stands there's only so much space. When I was younger we had a stand like that and my dad cut the back out for the top shelf. That way the consoles didn't get too hot.

Windowscentral? I doubt that is 'no bueno'

Agreed...the SSD narrative is keeping the fight alive here on N4G and the velocity architecture is a direct contradiction to that.

The issue of old on this site is a bit erratic. If a story is based on an old press release that came out a while ago, with the "while ago" seeming fairly arbitrary for length, then it's considered old. However, sometimes press releases go unnoticed, or not even reported on at all. If some other big news is happening at the time, something like the velocity engine can go unnoticed as people are talking about the bigger news, which in this case would have been the overall talk about Xbox.

I personally don't mind things getting re-reported again at a later date, so long as it's not done to the point of being ridiculous, or something that just instantly fuels contempt among the various sides of the console war. The velocity engine type article was more informative than 90% of the opinion pieces that could surely be written about how it's going to be the best thing ever, or the clickbait opinion pieces about it that will try to use it as why it's better than something else, which is what a lot of the "ssd narrative" that ibeyond mentions are keeping the fight alive. but opinion pieces fit within the rules of not being old....although they've started adding in the "dead horse" thing with more of those things lately.