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MontanaHatchet on 06 May 2009
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LordTheNightKnight said:
MontanaHatchet said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
The crash was US only. That's why it was still alive in Japan.

And of course the NES had to prove itself. That's kind of what I meant by the previous comments.

Well thanks for not reading anything I just said.

 

 

How is commenting on two specific things indicating I didn't read your reply? It only means I commented on two specific things.

But the first part of your comment was the question that I answered in the first sentence, and the second comment was pointing out that I had basically stated already... or at least thought I did. I'd say that was more a case of forgetting what I wrote than not reading what you wrote.

The point is that developers didn't flock to the NES at first either, even if the reasons and circumstances were different. Developers came to the system eventually, and that is what is happening with the Wii.

You originally said that developers were caught with their pants down, implying that they didn't expect the success of either the NES or the Wii. The main difference though is that developers didn't expect the success of the Wii for very different reasons than the NES, which I explained. It's significant and shouldn't just be tossed out the window for the sake of an analogy. Before the Wii, videogaming was still thriving, but the Wii helped to expand the audience. This is different from the NES, which practically made a revival of gaming.

A better analogy for the Wii would be the PS1, and the amount of time it took for third parties to support that platform. It actually came into success under similar circumstances.