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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      They had the market share, they could've ruled console gaming *permanently* They were looking into CD-ROM technology in *1988*, they developed the "Super CD" as an add-on to the SNES But the upper-level brass at Nintendo were always suspicious of it

      2 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Based on the fact that 1) They were unable to develop their own CD-ROM technology and format completely from the ground up in-house without anyone else's patents, and 2) This meant any CD-ROM software would be vulnerable to ripping and piracy

      3 replies 3 retweets 29 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Mr. Yamauchi, the President of Nintendo himself, *hated* this His *whole damn philosophy* was that everything cradle-to-grave Nintendo made be on Nintendo-owned proprietary tech, like to even make another device you can plug an SNES cart into was laborious reverse engineering

      2 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      They got really, really far with the concept of a CD-ROM-based console as a collab with Sony -- because it just made obvious sense as what the next console generation would be about -- but it was dogged by skepticism and increasingly harsh demands from Nintendo the whole time

      1 reply 4 retweets 24 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      And then at some point, we don't know exactly what it was said, but Mr. Yamauchi unceremoniously shot the whole project in the head Sony made their huge announcement of their Nintendo partnership at the 1991 CES only for Nintendo to openly disavow this the *very next day*

      1 reply 3 retweets 31 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      People at the time said Sony President Norio Ohga took this as a deep personal insult -- Nintendo saying "We've decided to go a different direction with Phillips instead" without even telling him They called it a Japanese honor culture thing but honestly it's a universal thing

      2 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Anyway that's why Ohga went out of his way to create Sony Computer Entertainment He founded a whole-ass company just to get revenge on Yamauchi for making him look like an ass in public Putting together everything they'd built for Nintendo they still owned and making the PS1

      1 reply 7 retweets 47 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      Nintendo created their own worst and most powerful competitor in one fell swoop because of their high-handed arrogant bullshit and even today they're still struggling to catch up from that

      4 replies 8 retweets 52 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      And like they *doubled down* in response to the PSX, like the N64 was them saying "No, fuck you, we're not doing CD-ROMs at all, cartridges are still fine", and the GameCube was them going "Okay if we have to use discs we're going to use annoying special little ones"

      3 replies 3 retweets 38 likes
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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 Sep 2020
      Replying to @rougegoat @Nymphomachy

      As embarrassing as Nintendo's missteps have been, Sega somehow has a much more embarrassing legacy of having a career of somehow 100% shooting themselves in the foot yet still existing

      9:28 PM - 16 Sep 2020
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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @rougegoat

          Honestly it's just because Sega has always been an oligarchy, it's got massive Hiram McDaniels energy

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect @rougegoat

          I was not expecting a Nightvale reference so casually in a thread about Nintendo but it works!

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        2. Duke‏ @krizazy 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @rougegoat @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

          Crazier was the 32x and sega cd mess that preceded the saturn.

          0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        1. Grand Wear a Mask Get a Damn Vax Moff  🦄‏ @GrandMoffJoseph 16 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @rougegoat @Nymphomachy

          I've always been a big Nintendo fan. But even I'll admit that the Genesis/GameGear/32X, and maybe even the Saturn - outperformed Nintendo's equivalent offering at the time. In hindsight, how they still lost that war is mystifying.

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