KLAMarine said:
Lawlight said: It is an exaggeration because the video game market crashed in NA only. | I see. What was the industry like in Europe and Japan at the time?
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Computer gaming was rising in Europe and held sway there for quite awhile. A lot of innovations we credit to console games actually appeared on PC games first. Sega actually did pretty well in Europe compared to Nintendo. In Japan, the arcade scene was gaining in popularity, which is the real root from which the current lineage of consoles derived. A lot of arcade developers were growing and looking into creating a home gaming system. Sega released a home console on the same day as the NES--and lost because the NES was far more advanced. Yes, Nintendo's first success in the market was at least partially because they had the most powerful console. If it hadn't been Nintendo then it would have been someone else (probably Sega, a company that was hurt very badly by Nintendo's illegal tactics in the US). Would they have been as successful? Maybe, maybe not. It would have happened, though, even if it had a different form.