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Post by castletonsnob on Apr 4, 2022 16:42:25 GMT -5
Did you know that back in 1983, Nintendo made a deal with Atari to help them sell the NES outside of Japan, only for the deal to fall through at the last minute? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5_RgSCjBoWhat would the gaming landscape have been like if the deal had stuck? Would Atari still be making consoles today? Given how monstrously incompetent Atari was, I think the NES would have failed if the deal had stuck. |
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Post by Paul on Apr 4, 2022 17:27:53 GMT -5
Atari couldn't even sell and market their own stuff. It would have been a disaster and the Nintendo "Boom Period" never would have happened.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 4, 2022 17:50:07 GMT -5
Atari were a mess. If they were put in charge of it, the NES would be remembered like the Colecovision, something better than what came around but ultimately doomed because of poor management decisions. Also let's not forget Atari had not one but two consoles that were of comparable power to the NES and they botched both, the 5200 was made 3 times as large as it needed to be and given horrendous controllers and the 7800 was delayed and delayed as the NES built up a massive headstart then given no software support.
Also, could you imagine Nintendo management of the 1980s and 90s trying to coexist with Jack Tramiel? It ends in acrimony, lawsuits and either NEC or Sega being the ones to revive console gaming in the US. Seriously, Jack effed over so many people he worked with while running Atari, he killed Epyx who went into business with them with the Lynx, he shafted a whole bunch of developers for the Jaguar and walked away having already set people to work developing new hardware for them.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 4, 2022 17:53:59 GMT -5
Also even in terms of the marketing, Atari's name was increasingly becoming mud to a lot of consumers, particularly parents that likely recalled the large amounts of crap that flooded the market. Nintendo being a new player on the market that didn't have a reputation that was tarnished by the crash likely helped them come off as a safe option in North America.
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Post by castletonsnob on Apr 4, 2022 18:15:35 GMT -5
Atari were a mess. If they were put in charge of it, the NES would be remembered like the Colecovision, something better than what came around but ultimately doomed because of poor management decisions. Also let's not forget Atari had not one but two consoles that were of comparable power to the NES and they botched both, the 5200 was made 3 times as large as it needed to be and given horrendous controllers and the 7800 was delayed and delayed as the NES built up a massive headstart then given no software support. Also, could you imagine Nintendo management of the 1980s and 90s trying to coexist with Jack Tramiel? It ends in acrimony, lawsuits and either NEC or Sega being the ones to revive console gaming in the US. Seriously, Jack effed over so many people he worked with while running Atari, he killed Epyx who went into business with them with the Lynx, he shafted a whole bunch of developers for the Jaguar and walked away having already set people to work developing new hardware for them. An industry where Sega took Nintendo's place as the market leader would be very different. Sega didn't censor games like Nintendo, for one thing. Imagine a world where the Master System is the console that revives gaming in North America instead of Nintendo, combined with the Master System's popularity in Europe and Latin America. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 4, 2022 20:56:45 GMT -5
We'd be living in the Blade Runner timeline if this had happened.
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