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Nintendo tried to supplant personal computers?
by sofal 17y ago
Nintendo tried to supplant personal computers?
- patio11 17y agoNintendo was trying to supplant personal computers before there were widely deployed personal computers to supplant! The Japanese name of the product known as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was the FamiCon, short for Family Computer: the power of a workstation harnessed in the pursuit of things other than work. For the last few decades Nintendo has been the defining video game company in the US, but that is not their self-image. Look at what they're doing with the Wii or the DS: yoga trainers, anti-Alzheimers programs, dictionaries, cookbooks, exercise machines, and a little Mario on the side.
- GHFigs 17y agoI will draw your attention to Apple's own slides, where they place the iPad between the iPhone (and smartphones in general) and a MacBook (and personal computers in general). They are undoubtedly interested in selling all three for some time to come. Will it supplant personal computers for some people? Sure. It just means that personal computers will have to shift to doing what they do best even better. It might drain a lot of life from the netbook market, but that's about it.