How did Nintendo revitalize the dying gaming industry in North America? What went right?
How did Nintendo revitalize the dying gaming industry in North America? What went right?
How did Nintendo revitalize the dying gaming industry in North America? What went right?
They didn't do anything right. Atari just did wrong.
This. It took retailers three years to chew through their gargantuan stock of second gen games they got by intentionally inflating orders. By 1986 they were finally ready to order some new video games.
>Nes loaded like VCR
>called cassettes rather than cartridges
>Rob the robot
People reluctantly bought a nes, then when they played smb nobody even rememberd atari
>called cassettes rather than cartridges
I've never heard anybody other then people from Europe call cartridges cassettes. Cassettes to me means tapes
Most of the people who called them cassettes were random 8track gays who think an NES cart is like an 8track tape.
There's so much to unpack here, I don't even know where to begin.
Begin at the end, then randomly jump from prominent plot points until it's all summed up.
The word cassette means 'small case'. So really, all cartridge games actually are cassettes technically. They just aren't cassette *tapes*. Well, most of them aren't anyway.
They are technically both. They fit the criteria for both cartridge and cassette. A catrette it you will
Luck. Atari games flooded the market with indistinguishable piles of shit with no way to sift the good from the bad. Atari's follow up consoles were just too jank to work and retailers lost faith in them. Meanwhile, Nintendo actually worked and on occasion had games that were nearly up to the standard that microcomputer games were at then.
Lmao
>microcomputer standards
Now this is shitposting.
Unmatched game quality and depth unseen at the time.
The biggest hurdle wasn't convincing consumers, but retailers. To that end, they marketed it as a toy. Simple as that.
This. The Commodore 64 was doing gangbusters during the exact time frame the crash was happening. If you think about it in terms of what was actually affected, it really just meant the Colecovision and Atari 5200 died early and everyone moved to home PCs. Nintendo reintroduced the dedicated game console.
Atari was basically fricking pants on head moronic and an hero'd themselves out of the industry. Nintendo went in themselves and Atari was eternally bitter about it.
>"Dark age" when Atari games were dirt cheap and games were plentiful
>Nipponese corporation swoops in
>Marketed the NES as a toy with a funny robot, retail stores oblige because of this
>Games are more advanced, play better than anything on Atari
>Word of mouth spreads
>WAOW!.
>dying gaming industry
people weren't gonna stop making or playing video games because of ET or whatever garbage they were spamming at the time
consumers just realized that most of what the industry was producing was garbage
if nintendo didn't enter the market, games would keep being made for the apple II and for the IBM pc
and arcades were going strong, still. "it's like the games on the arcade" is all sega would need to say to market the master system and the genesis and dominate the late 80s and early 90s
Japanese game development simple as.
Also, good controller design. Nobody likes playing action games with a keyboard.