| etking said: The last time so many low quality games were on the market was followed by a big and destructive crash of the whole industry. There needs to be more quality assurance by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft or the same will happen again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983 |
Hugely flawed argument, those poor quality games were that era's AAA games. Also note it's the North American Video Game crash. The scene in Europe was very strong, and far more "indie" than the US market ever was. Games were made for home computers programmed by a single person in his bedroom and published on cassette tapes costing a few quid each. That market was bouyant and remained a key part of Europe really (migrating from the ZX Spectrum and C64 etc in the 80s to the Amiga and Atari home computers in the early to mid 90s) until the PlayStation took over.
Incidentally this is why Nintendo historically has never seen as much success in Europe too, they never had a monopoly in the 80s.
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