> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push th

> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push the computer/development angle. When the NES was released in Japan before the US, it was branded the "Family Computer" and you could get a keyboard and a version of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC Sony has had multiple attempts, with a consumer homebrew dev kit for the PS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze ), and Linux for the PS2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 ) and later PS3.