Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I think you're right. I can't think of a counterexample off the top of my head or where a counterexample would even exist.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…Of course, they didn't. It wouldn't be until that time when people would think about using this architecture in computers and PCs. But in this subset of the computing market, it was Nintendo. I think you're right. I can't think of a counterexample off the top of my head or where a counterexample would even exist. Right, that's what I thought about too. I'm like, I can't think of anything else. Again, it is technically true that the Atari and other consoles had chips that handled the graphics output from the CPU, but they weren't programmable, they didn't have onboard memory, and they weren't doing any of the processing of the graphics. The PPU at the NES is actually doing a lot of work. All came about is this necessitated by this constraint that Yamauchi put on the team of like, this has got to sell for less than $100.…
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