Why was there a video game crash in 1980-1983, and how did Nintendo and Sega save it?
Why was there a video game crash in 1980-1983, and how did Nintendo and Sega save it?
It is believed that Nintendo saved the video game industry with Super Mario Bros.
There were several reasons for this. On the one hand there was a completely oversaturated market with too many manufacturers, a lot of assembly line cheap software that nobody really wanted to buy and also increasingly critical media coverage and hearing in the US Senate.
Nintendo and Sega did not save the market, but at least caused a new boost in 1987.
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Yes, a question, what did Nintendo and Sega do differently than their competition back then? What did the people of the Nes and Sega master system think different and better?
Yes, a question, what did Nintendo and Sega do differently than their competition back then? What did the people of the Nes and Sega master system think different and better?
The NES didn't appear until 1985, well after the American video game industry crashed in the United States.
It had been on the market in Japan since '83. After the disaster of the US manufacturers, Nintendo and later Sega took advantage of the gap that had arisen because the American market was practically non-existent at the time. They also produced high-quality and innovative software.
Have brought the arcade feeling into the living room. And impressed with strong own brands. Nintendo less, but Sega was extremely close to the arcade.
As I'm currently writing a thesis on the history of video games, I may be able to help you. Since you have always asked in the previous answers about the difference in the approach of Nintendo and Sega compared to the rest, I will try to go into that. Nintendo's trick was deliberately not to sell the NES as a game console but, as the name suggests, as an entertainment system. The classic video recorder and the like played a key role in this. Memorable design and R.O.B., a robot that was included in the NES Deluxe set and pushed the device more in the toy direction. In doing so, Nintendo circumvented the distrust that customers had developed towards game consoles. Originally, the NES was even supposed to come out as an Advanced Videos System, AVS for short, with a keyboard, cassette recorder, etc. And thus jump on the home computer hype of that time. But that was too complicated for many customers and so, as I said, it came out as NES. At SEGA I would have to do some more research, but I'll get in touch as soon as I know more.
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