Comment on Famicom Disk Writer Kiosk Advert
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 20 hours ago
This is so damn cool, why will only ever the core system stuff get a wider release while the cool stuff is hidden at home in Japan?!
I never got that double D disk drive they promised for the N64. And let me not even begin rambling on about the PlayStation stuff…
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Because while cool it is quite likely it didn’t seem that the sales were good enough to bother translating and patenting. Tbh American/European culture is very different so they probably didn’t think it would succeed when it wasn’t very successful at home.
addie@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Yeah. Being able to ‘rent’ games like this makes more sense if you live in a very compact house and having access to stuff that you don’t need to store seems like a good deal. Having a higher population density such that each of these kiosks serves a larger number of customers makes them viable if the margins were quite thin in the first place.