Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: uncertainty
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I don't know 100% for sure, but I think Arakawa was like, yo, the reason I don't want to launch now is now is not the time to launch this in America, I can see what's going to happen here, so maybe it wouldn't have.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…This probably would have happened. This definitely would have happened if the timing were different. Maybe it would have, maybe it wouldn't have. I don't know 100% for sure, but I think Arakawa was like, yo, the reason I don't want to launch now is now is not the time to launch this in America, I can see what's going to happen here, so maybe it wouldn't have. If things were different, maybe he and Nintendo of America would have let it from the beginning. In a sense, Arakawa was right. The fact that they didn't release what became the NES, the US version, which is a little bit modified from the Japanese one, for another two years.…
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