The big System X *versus* System Y internet debates, 22 - 23 years ago...

[MikeB]

RolStoppable said:

Sullla said:

MikeB said:

Is there something to be learned here?

Of course, and you've completely missed the main point: while a small cadre of geeky computer techies debated over system specs that no one else cared about, the vast majority of gamers were embracing the simple, fun, classic games of the NES/Famicom. And I think we all know how that turned out.

That was just mean.

Why?

In Europe the Amiga was very popular, capturing a majority of the computer market. In some markets such as Sweden up to 90% market share, even Commodore bankrupted due to their PC branch and legal issues in the states, Amiga had a majority market share of the CD format software markets in Europe, more sales than PC CDROM, CD-i and Sega CD all combined.

It was just in the US where the NES was very popular. But look at those games on the Amiga, even if I lived in the US I wouldn't want to trade an Amiga for a NES just because a majority of gamers owned one. The same if I owned a Ferrari, I wouldn't have wanted to trade it for a deux chevaux just because more people owned one.

The Amiga 500 has far more games than the NES ever did (I can't think of one game which had a better version on the NES, IMO apart from Mario games the quality was ranging pretty much from so so, to amazingly awful really), the Public Domain/Shareware/Freeware games market started developing here, as well as the glory years of the demoscene was on the Amiga.