Why did Nintendo release shitty, cheap looking shit in NA, but

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Why was it so much bigger?

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Like, did they think that all North Americans were hulking 7 foot juggernauts that can't handle small things?

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I don't even get this one. the size difference is barely noticeable

>>386597229
The Famicom is objectively worse looking than the NES. The Famicom looks like a cheap children's toy while the NES almost looks like it could be a piece of home theater equipment.

I mean, what were they thinking?

>>386597624
But why was it so unnecessarily large? It's not like all the extra space actually did anything?

>bait thread asking questions that have had the same answers literally since the consoles came out

Perfectly legit business reasons, that's why, Go fucking google, kiddo,

Was the mindset that it has to look like a grey VCR? because that's pretty silly
>Mommy mommy I want a nintendo!
Absolutely not Timmy, it's just far too small and space efficient.

>>386597819
>Perfectly legit business reasons
Such as?
>I'm not going to substantiate my claims, sending you on a wild goose chase!
thanks Anon, I figured you were bullshitting

It's supposed to look like a VHS, no one in the starts of 80 was seeking for video game console since the crisis, the brick asphalt looking helped to tank the sales.

>>386598137
>>386597819
>>386597624
Okay, we'll move on to the SNES. Did that have a similar reason?

>>386598310
They redesigned it so the top was impossible to put drinks on, Americans kept putting their drinks on top of the NES and the people in charge of repairs were getting annoyed at all the water damaged units.

>>386597168
>did
>don't anymore

>>386598691
that sounds like absolute horseshit, but I believe it

>>386597624
I really don't hope you work in anything related to design.

>>386600715
>Being surprised that Burgers do absolutely retarded shit to their valuables

>>386601412
>being surprised nintenbros are fucking retards

ftfy

>>386598691
You're explanation makes no sense. The NA SNES was different from the start

>>386603210
If it was an issue with the NES, it's something they could have kept in mind when designing the Super NES. How does it not make sense?

>>386597382
NA carts were way better since you can actually stack them and they have end labels.
Storing loose Super Famicom games is the worst.

The sad part is that a lot of Americans like it. Mostly for nostalgia, but but still, it's ugly.

...and I'm American.

Who gives a shit about America? This is the Canadian design America stole it from us!

>>386603587
The fact that being able to put your drink on the NES is a matter of its design, not its region.

>>386597679
They wanted to make the NES look like some pseudo-VCR.

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>>386597679
They literally padded the inside of the cartridges with empty space, just a hull of plastic to "appeal to American sensibilities"

Proof Nintendo has ALWAYS fucked it up somehow.

why did japan have tiny 3 foot long cords for the controllers, did they expect kids to sit right in front of the screen?

>>386597382
that super nintendo game looks like it was exposed to homo radiation

>>386601274
what an incorrect snob

>>386601274
That was literally the design process. The Famicom looked too much like a video game console, so it was reworked to look more like a VCR for America to escape the anti-videogames stigma at the time.

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>>386606537
>did they expect kids to sit right in front of the screen?

Have you seen the size of the average Japanese home?

>>386606537
Yes, that's why all those idiot kids had seizures from that one Pokemon episode, and why anime since has the warning "Watch in a brightly lit room away from the TV"

>>386597229
Bigger was better in the 80s.

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>>386606386
>>386597309
maybe they wanted us to think that they were pushing the limits of technology or something and "this game is massive and takes up all this space!" instead of some puny little credit card looking case

>>386597229
The NES was supposed to look like a VCR and was marketed as an entertainment system and not a videogame console because at the time when people heard videogame they thought garbage Atari shovelware. The cartridges were bigger to look more like VHS tapes, that's why people called them tapes a lot.

>>386597229
wasn't marketed as a gaming console but as an "entertainment" system, another guy mentioned it but they wanted it to have similar qualities as a VCR. US market got burned by atari and other games and nintendo had to be careful -- hence the launch with ROB.

>>386607939
It was the era of smaller = better. Look at any other technology until the iPhone released. Smaller and smaller and smaller. Computers, phones, televisions (depth wise, flat screens were a huge deal).
But you're right, Nintendo thought America was some sort of mystical place with big trucks and big houses and guns and explosions and everything has to be HUGE.
Nah stupid fuckers I don't want a huge pile of shit sitting in front of my TV I want it smaller.
The PAL designs for NES/SNES were OBJECTIVELY better.

>>386597309
Air Fortress is a fantastic game.

>>386608305
>smaller = better
>>386607851
Bigger was better
I'm getting conflicting reports here, can we get a snopes certified fact checker in here?

>>386597229
I'm surprised by these responses. Everyone knows the NES had more components and features like RF right?

>>386609038
But does an RF adapter require that much more space?

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>>386597168
>Nintendo releases really cool designs in the United States
>Nintendo is successful
>Nintendo 64 isn't redesigned for the States
>Kiddie reputation appears at about this time
>Sales of Nintendo consoles rapidly decelerate

Really makes you think.

Note for extremely stupid people: I'm not implying this is why the N64 and the successors failed, it's just an interesting coincidence

>>386609079
In addition to RF it had the region lock out chip and the db15 expansion built into the bottom

>>386609038
Oops I meant composite and mono audio out port

>>386609273
The Nintendo 64 was American-styled to begin with. America was the only region where it was successful, only a little less so than the SNES. It just tanked everywhere else, especially Japan.

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>hmm how can I combine region wars with console wars

>>386597229

The Japanese one looks like a cheap toy you buy a 5 year old.

>>386605661
And you can set your drink on a Super Famicom as well, so they wanted to avoid that since they assumed Burgerclaps were dumb enough to do it again.

But I could put drinks on my SNES just fine?

>>386610260
Burgers are always looking for a way set their 32oz colas on everything, jesus christ

>>386608002
>>386606909
And in the process they designed a console that literally ruins your cartridges. It is objectively a bad design. It also look nothing like a VCR.

>>386610457
>32 oz colas
What does everyone buy fountain drinks at 7-11?

The better question is why didn't the comfy PC-Engine got bulked up when its pretty much perfect to bring anywhere?

>>386597168
Because deep down, the Japs still hate us because we dropped 2 nukes on them and completely neutered their military.

>>386610764
*did

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Claim SNES was designed different so Americans can't put drinks on it. Super famicom a top loader as well.

>anti American logic wins again!

Because at the end of the day Americans don't care about how things look or even the quality of it. They just care about if it's popular or makes them cool.

Seriously I do woodworking and it's so much easier to see well made shit in Japan then it is here.

>>386597168
Americans have shit taste and the japs know it

>>386607119
This.

Americans forget how large the homes are here compared to pretty much every other part of the world.

>>386610954
There's also quotes from Nintendo employees on the matter that don't reference beverages at all
>The Super Famicom was maybe okay for the market in Japan. For the US, I felt that it was too soft and had no edge. We were always looking at future modular components (even the NES had a connector on the bottom), so you had to design with the idea of stacking on top of other components. I though the Super Famicom didn't look good when stacked and even by itself, had a kind of "bag of bread" look.
Lance Barr, Nintendo of America

>>386597309
retard strength

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>>386597168
In North America and North America alone the terms "video game" and "computer" became dirty words in the Entertainment industry. The thing that allowed Nintendo to penetrate that market was that they didn't use those words; they marketed the NES as an 'entertainment system' so it would look like and sit alongside electronic toys that used tapes and cartridges and such. For example, the educational quiz toy 2XL that used 8-track.

>>386597168
The PAL SNES looks like the Super Famicom because Europeans made it clear that they fucking hated the US SNES.

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A thing of pure beauty...

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>>386612156
...turned into an ugly piece of shit because Americans think bigger is better.

>>386597229
Because the cartridges actually went inside of the system instead of being docked ontop of it?
In addition to this it actually had more chips inside of it.

>>386612156
This is aesthetically pleasing in a basic kind of way.

>>386612261
That had more adapters and a better sound chip iir

>>386610815
This senpai

NA NES > JP NES
JP SNES > NA SNES
Who agrees?