curl-6 said:
STRYKIE said:
the_dengle said:
STRYKIE said:
the_dengle said:
Back in the 80s, Nintendo adopted this stray industry it found wandering the streets, abused by its former owners. They cleaned it up and gave it a home, nursed it back to health. Since then, we're just a little overprotective of our baby. We can't imagine it leaving without our supervision. What if some strange men in business suits kidnap it and sell it to the highest bidder?
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Mainland Europe didn't give much of a damn about Nintendo gracing their countries. Go figure.
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So what 80s video game console outsold the NES in Europe?
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Sega Master System and Commodore 64. Even if they didn't, my point is that Nintendo basically had a free home run on North America while there were still more than enough viable platforms in most other countries. While there were still shitty unlicensed games floating around here, the good games still outweighed the bad games, it didn't spiral out of control like it did in the U.S. to the point where it deterred people from wanting to play video games altogether. Even through the 16-bit generation, the Sega Mega Drive had a sizeable advantage in PAL territory market share (Europe, Brazil, Oceania etc.) but it was nowhere near as lopsided as the NES in North America.
All I'm saying is, people tend to exaggerate the extent to which Nintendo "saved the industry".
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The Sega Master system only entered the race several years AFTER the NES showed the industry was still viable.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure we (PAL regions) got the SMS and NES the same year?
