• Davel23
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    89 months ago

    This has been the case with console addons all the way back to R.O.B. the Robot, if not earlier. People won’t buy an addon if there are no games for it. Companies won’t make games for an addon if no one buys it. Catch-22.

    • @acosmichippo
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      59 months ago

      that’s why the manufacturer needs to lead the way with a killer app.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      But… R.O.B. wasn’t an add-on. It was a way to market the NES as a toy rather than a console, in the wake of the video games crash of 1983-85. Was just a way to sideload NES systems into the houses of wary consumers.