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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
11 Apr 2023 Acquired Nintendo: The Console Wars
“While this is all happening, Gunpei, who was not involved with the development of the NES, goes over to Yamauchi and says, hey, I think we can basically combine the NES and this old Game & Watch technology and make a similarly awesome, portable cartridge-based console.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo: The Console Wars
Transcript context
…Newspapers, man. Newspapers, right. So, time marches forward, everything that we talked about in episode one on Nintendo comes to pass, the NES launches, it achieves 95% global market share, Nintendo is on top of the world, et cetera, et cetera. While this is all happening, Gunpei, who was not involved with the development of the NES, goes over to Yamauchi and says, hey, I think we can basically combine the NES and this old Game & Watch technology and make a similarly awesome, portable cartridge-based console. Yamauchi and the rest of Nintendo are like, well, yes, of course, if you could do that, that would be amazing. Who wouldn't want to buy one of those things? Part of what made the NES so great was it was years ahead of all the competition and technology. How are we going to do that in the portable era? Gunpei's like, don't worry, Mr. Yamauchi, I've got it. I can make it all work. This device that I have in mind, it'll play awesome games. It will have great battery life. We can get it to market super fast. I'm pretty sure we can sell this thing even cheaper than the NES. However, he's like, this is too good to be true. How are we going to do this? It's quite the promise.…
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