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[Viper1]

RolStoppable said:

Viper1 said:

You do realize that could be in part because 90% of the software development market were Japanese develoeprs?

The crash of 1983 put most western develoeprs off from console support and geared their efforts toward PC and PC game consoles like the Commodore.   In Europe back in the 80's  PC and PC game consoles were the big item.  Regular game consoles didn't catch on for a while.

But as the popularity (and more importantly the commercial viability) of the NES proved itself, the western developer support followed.

I don't think that's how it went down. It wasn't that the NES proved itself as a viable platform, it was that the home computers of that time proved themselves as not viable platforms. If it weren't for the home computers failing left and right, the Western developer community would have sticked with them.

They did stick with them in Europe.  Very heavily.  Look at the sales of PC consoles and video game consoles in Europe and the US during that period.  It's night and day.  Why stick with the same rpoducts in Europe but not America?  Becuase that was how the market dicated things.   Americans wanted video game consoles, Europeans wanted PC consoles.