For the love of god Nintendo do not go fancy ass

[zorg1000]

pokoko said:

zorg1000 said:

NES was absolutely dependant on gimmicks, the only reason most retailers accepted it in the US was because it was marketed as a toy and was bundled with R.O.B.

You and I played with different NES systems, then, because I don't remember many of my games not working because I didn't have a ROB.  It's pretty clear that it wasn't a Wii U situation where they cannot remove the game-pad because many of the games are dependent on the gimmick.

 

Without R.O.B. many retailers would not have stocked NES, that means that the success of NES was directly dependant on a gimmick.