Impressive but only because the first generation of 3D console hardware was focusing on different things and struggled with format transition.
A good fat cartidge in the slot does wonders aye.
At least for the Playstation, Sony didn't want to focus on 2D games, even though it could do them well. I think on some of the PSX ports, there were load times, and some of sprites weren't as big as the Neo Geo ones.
Just about as soon as 3D games/systems came out, it seemed like all the games dropped all their coverage of 2D games, or disparaged game series that were still 2D. So, 3D must have been where the money was- games magazines were largely just promotional vehicles, to get people to buy systems & games.
Yeah the Neo Geo 2D games looked better than anything 2D on say the Playstation, Saturn or N64. That’s pretty impressive for late 80s hardware.
The Neo in the arcade was always RGB/60Hz, but when we played Playstation (in Australia) it was composite video (at best), and I'm not sure whether we even played it in 60Hz.