I'm thinking about redoing this one from the start as I now have a broader knowledge of videogames than when I started. And can you explain what you mean about the American public and developers?
You're Redoing it... Thande you're my hero,
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And in general about America Developers... Plus what Electric Monk Say, I'll add than they mostly want obviously title to the americans and sometime 'western' tastes, like Sports and some shoteers(either person) plus game who can allow to sell in big quantities, the Third Party Legacy of American videogames is mostly Atari legacy(how they treat their own programers as shit) and with more 'creative freedom' with...Mixed Result.
In general how will evolve the Timeline, with Nintendo-Sony Playstation, the Virtua Boy will never have Raison D'etre and that will changes the fortunes of Gumpei Yokoi(who mostly of Nintendo Decision still have his Influence) and maybe some Developmer(Shozou Kaga of Fire Emblem Saga want to work with Cd, here with their dream fullfy.. I want to see how will keep the franchise..maybe even reaching western shores early?)
And with that? How Long will Endure Sony-Nintendo? Until DVD at least i think, Atari will look for a Proxy in Japan?(NEC-Hudson/Atari can become a big boy wordly).
Those are some question for the future.
And a notice... Even with CD, Nintendo will not drop Cartidge so quicky, Nintendo have in Japan a lot of Fixed Capital in that departament, and with the Home Console with CD... they can do wonder in Miniaturisation to keep that working.
Some thoughts, I was educated by 'Japanese Propaganda'(Read Nintendo Publishes and forum in LatAm) thus different of a lot of people