Why didn't Nintendo make better use of this? Instead of rushing into the SNES they could have expanded the NES's ram and cpu capabilities (faster games, more colors, more audio channels) for a fraction of the cost of producing a 16 bit console, and they would have had near parity with the Turbo Grafix 16 and Genesis still.
Additionally they would be tapping into their at the time colossal hold on the video game market with the NES.
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You do remember what happened when sega kept bolting shit onto the Genesis, right?
I knew this would be one of the first poorly thought out rebuttals. Yes, and there was nothing wrong with the Sega CD. The 32x was a bad decision all around, and in either case both are more ambitious than what I am talking about.
It would have been cheap and easy to implement expanding the CPU, ram, and sound of the NES. That's not the same as making a 16 bit console into a 32bit one, or adding an entirely different medium to it (such as with CDs)
The console would still play cartridges through its original port, just with more power under the hood.
For example. the SNES Cpu was only about double the NES'. Two NES CPUs working on separate tasks would have done just as well, and they already had the manufacturing set up for those CPUs in the first place.
you fucking retard
lmao don't breathe
You really don't know how either consoles works, do you?
You do realize there was no limitation keeping the NES with a four button + dpad configuration, right?
Nice shitpost, faggot. Care to provide any substantive argument against anything I have said, or is pretending like you know jack shit about the subject all you can do?
yeah there was
now fuck off
Nobody forced you into the thread, faggot. You fuck off.
It was a time when almost nobody owned a computer, or understood ram, floppy disk, or even mouse. How the fuck are you going to explain, let alone sell a small box that plugs into another box that makes it play new games?
Nobody would understand why the new little one is needed, they will simply say "why wound the nesX game just work on nes?"
They couldn't even establish that the wiiu was it's own thing, in this "technology advanced age" but somehow they can convince technology illiterate parents that a $200 box is needed.