pokoko said:
Since Sega would have probably been the company to restart home consoles, I really have no idea why Japanese elements would be gone. And why would there not be RPGs? Neither Square nor Enix released their first games on Nintendo platforms. The Japanese software scene was moving forward swifty even without Nintendo. The home console revival would likely have come from Sega or NEC, so I think a Japanese influence was inevitable. |
I do not know enough about early home console history to argue with you.
....BUT...
I thought that the reason NES was successful was the "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" philosophy of Gunpei Yokoi, that made the console cheap enough to be able to sell to a bigger audience. Nintendo came from simplicity (Game & Watch) while Sega came from the hardware heavy arcade games.
As for JRPGs: I belive JRPGs would have stayed in Japan (as many JRPGs still do) if they did not have a japanese company that could offer them a worldwide audience (in the end it was probably Sony that made JRPGs popular worldwide). Nintendo paved the way for JRPGs with The Legend Of Zelda introducing many JRPG-like elements for western audience.
