The biggest mistake in Nintendo history

Game news The biggest mistake in Nintendo history

Published on 12/25/2021 12:40 PM

JV Legends looks back on the unusual stories that shaped or even changed the world of video games. Last time we traced the tumultuous way the Stardew Valley game was developed. This week we’ll be discussing the complex rollout of Nintendo 64 and Nintendo’s questionable choices at the time.

A salon war

In the early 90s, at the time when arcade games were most democratized, Nintendo and Sega are at war to be the favorite console in our living room. The two Japanese companies openly shoot each other on cult advertising sites. During this battle a number of plans were decided, adopted, complicated, and then canceled or modified. One of the first difficulties is Game support

because yes, the appearance of CDs has changed the situation a lot, Cartridge or CD the question arises. The other question that has arisen is none other than the quality of the times we are passed on from 8 to 64 bits via 16 and 32 bits.

A fight full of twists and turns

Nintendo installed well with a Super NES very reliable, but that begins to have the bottle and Sega in front with his Saturn which is clearly not a favorite to start with but arrived 4 years later the console is much more efficient. Nintendo wants to put an end to the war that is raging between the two and with all the new features that come with it, you will work a lot with Nintendo, the CD. However, this technology, which was the CD at the time, was very different from the traditional medium of the Japanese company in that it always had cassettes. It will therefore have to ally itself with Sony and, based on this agreement, which did not work, it will subsequently also ally itself unsuccessfully with Philips. History reminds us of that Sony will subsequently be the biggest competitor

Nintendo and even take the market leadership. The Nintendo 64 will continue to appear with cartridges and Sega will no longer produce consoles. How did it all develop? We’ll tell you that in the video of these special Christmas JV legends for this Saturday.

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