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curl-6 on 13 October 2023
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bdbdbd said:
curl-6 said:

And those same resources generate less return on investment when a console is failing than when a console is succeeding. Had Gamecube sold as well as the NES, Nintendo would have been far better off. There's just no way around the fact that on Yamauchi's watch their consoles went from great success to failure.

They do, but the resources are in use for handhelds. Yamauchi's problem was to get late to the game. Even NES had sold a lot more if had been released earlier in Europe. By the time NES was out, the market was dominated by game centric computers. As consoles never gained such a popularity in Europe they did in Japan and North-America, Sony managed to had a good hold on this when people were replacing their old Commodores and Amigas. But at the same time the home consoles sales went for worse, handheld sales went for the better.

Consoles sales could still have continued to be great alongside that though, it just didn't happen that way cos N64 and Gamecube were poorly managed. Whatever Yamauchi's wins, and he absolutely deserves credit for them, it also has to be acknowledged that he was responsible for multiple misfires too.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 13 October 2023