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[bcdusk]

they didn't

Eh that's debatable, just like people were wiling to go in debt to buy a Nes, they would have been willing to go in debt for their childrens education because "computers are the future".

A computer you can just plug in your TV and use?

It could have happened.

At least it is more likely that Atari learing basic math.

How can you not know you cannot sell more game units of a single game that consoles sold to consumers that can play said game?

Yeah that is the Atari you somehow think was going to do a big comeback, when the previous Atari console was selling so cheap it was insane.

Yeah that same Atari.

 

[PhaseJump]

Eh that's debatable, just like people were wiling to go in debt to buy a Nes, they would have been willing to go in debt for their childrens education because "computers are the future".

A computer you can just plug in your TV and use?

It could have happened.

At least it is more likely that Atari learing basic math.

How can you not know you cannot sell more game units of a single game that consoles sold to consumers that can play said game?

Yeah that is the Atari you somehow think was going to do a big comeback, when the previous Atari console was selling so cheap it was insane.

Yeah that same Atari.

Firstly, Jack Tramiel bought the company and name after the crash. It was literally not the same Atari that oversupplied games for 2600 consoles. Secondly, 2600 was outright cloned and the games ran other consoles they didn't even make so the original projections that drove them under were a bad gamble that they lost, but only in hindsight. They also worked on the first backwards compatible next-gen machine.

You are shitting on Atari for mistakes, oblivious to the point that they went under and somebody else took their name, the former exec who created Commodore. He inherited a complete game console ready to go with the 7800, but his own problems brought a lack of support to get the thing launched with a decent sound chip.

People didn't typically go into debt to buy toy products they couldn't afford in the 80s. Credit cards weren't exactly common. The toy mania around NES launch invited some scalping, but people back then weren't insanely over leveraged like they are today, and certainly didn't give a shit about video games enough to go into debt for them specifically. Computers could have been a different story, but they weren't. They cost a fortune by comparison, people didn't adopt them widely in the home until the 90s.

You sound like somebody who wasn't around back then, making assumptions based on bullshit stories from the internet.

 

[petran79]

Computers could have been a different story, but they weren't. They cost a fortune by comparison, people didn't adopt them widely in the home until the 90s.

You sound like somebody who wasn't around back then, making assumptions based on bullshit stories from the internet.

Computers were more popular in Europe for games, but even relatively cheaper computers (cheaper when compared to business pcs like IBM clones and Apple) like the Amstrad and Spectrum, were worth an month's average salary at least in the 80s.
kids were better off in arcades or game and watch type consoles.

Still the Amiga 500 in late 80s in Germany outsold by a small margin the Sega Mega Drive (around 1 million units for both) as Germany had its own Amiga assembly plant and an A500 and 2000 German variant, thus reducing costs.