Nintendo's Origins
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Developing the NES: A Long-Term Vision
Nintendo started a project in the late 70s to develop their first programmable ROM cartridge, swapable software, home video game console/nNintendo aimed to produce a device at least one year ahead of any competitors on the market and sell it for the equivalent of $75/nNintendo aimed to be unit economic positive on every game system sold, contrary to the rest of the industry who subsidized to sell more games/nThe NES debuted in the US in 1985 and not in Japan until 1983/nNintendo took years to develop the NES and did it all on hard mode
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