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> The NES also is an outlier since it launched in a cold market (video game crash of 1983). It was only cold in the US. The NES launched a few years earlier in
by Narishma 10y ago
> The NES also is an outlier since it launched in a cold market (video game crash of 1983).
It was only cold in the US. The NES launched a few years earlier in Japan where it was very successful.
- bobajeff 10y agoAs Japan didn't have Atari it was also a cold market. But that's not really the point. The point is that if the NES was launched with the market conditions that we have today there'd have likely been several times a many consoles sold.