Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“My God, I think Nintendo might have every single one of these powers of looking at this.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…Yup. Again, this will show up in the next episode, not this one, but switching costs. If Nintendo had a viable competitor in the late 80s, there'll be switching costs, but there weren't. That'll show up in the Sega battle of once you pick a side, you're dug into that side at least for the next 6–7 years. For the majority of the market in both America and Japan, families are only going to buy one console system that they're going to buy all their games on. There is a subset of the market that is going to buy both the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, but that's a small subset. Today, most households are going to choose between the PlayStation and the Xbox. It's interesting that Nintendo is a third alternative thing. But 100% switching costs. My God, I think Nintendo might have every single one of these powers of looking at this. I don't think they have branding.…
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