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It looks to me that Nintendo tried turning the SNES into a full blown 'computer'
- mr-ron 6y agoGreat video that summarizes whats going on here. Seems like a big deal to a lot of people interested in this era of games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDPwLE7DBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDPwLE7DBw
- xenadu02 6y agoAfter the video game crash several companies, including Nintendo, rebranded their next-gen systems as "home computers" to avoid the stigma of being a "video game" system. In that light I don't think it's terribly surprising.
- contextfree 6y agoVideo game crash was 1983 and affected the US marketing and positioning of NES (8-bit), this is 1991 and SNES (16-bit).