stika said:
tarheel91 said:
stika said:
tarheel91 said:
2600 gets too much credit. NES didn't save the industry; the NES was the phoenix down that revived it from nonexistence. The NES was actually worse off than the 2600 ever was. Thanks to the crash, both retailers and consumers had a negative view of video games (terribly selling consoles and games for the retailers; terrible games for the consumers). The NES had to overcome the negative perception, and after doing so, proceeded to expand the market like negative before.
At the same time, the 2600, while responsible for a great majority of that initial growth back in the early 70s, was also responsible for a lot of the problems that led to the crash (ridiculously long life cycle, no quality protection, etc). A lot of people forget just how terrible most games were on the 2600, and they focus on the few shining examples of greatness. |
You have to remember that the NES only revived the industry in the US
neither Japan or Europe ever had the great console crash
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Europe was irrelevant in terms of the video game market at that time, and the only reason Japan didn't see such a crash was because Atari never introduced a console until 1983. The Atari 2800, as it was called, was destroyed by the Famicom/Nes. Until Nintendo (or atleast, until the Famicom, as Nintendo made arcade games before the Famicom), the Japanese video game market was dominated largely by arcades.
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Europe was irrelevant? Hardly, the difference is that Europe was mainly focused on computers, specially the spectrum
I never said the Atari was popular in Japan, i simply said that the NES didn't save either Japan or Europe because there was no need to
EDIT: The fact that many Japanese arcade games were ported over to the Atari 2600 also helped, games like donkey kong by nintendo, frogger by sega, galaxian by namco, etc.
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If you looked at my argument in the first post, you'll notice that I was arguing that the 2600 gets too much credit. I assumed you were attempting to counter that. I agree that the NES didn't revive either of those markets, but it did revive the largest console market from literal death, and created a market in Japan (Europe would really be developed later with the PS1).
