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This has been the case with console addons all the way back to R.O.B. the Robot, if not earlier. People won’t buy an addon if there are no games for it. Companies won’t make games for an addon if no one buys it. Catch-22.
But… R.O.B. wasn’t an add-on. It was a way to market the NES as a toy rather than a console, in the wake of the video games crash of 1983-85. Was just a way to sideload NES systems into the houses of wary consumers.
This has been the case with console addons all the way back to R.O.B. the Robot, if not earlier. People won’t buy an addon if there are no games for it. Companies won’t make games for an addon if no one buys it. Catch-22.
that’s why the manufacturer needs to lead the way with a killer app.
But… R.O.B. wasn’t an add-on. It was a way to market the NES as a toy rather than a console, in the wake of the video games crash of 1983-85. Was just a way to sideload NES systems into the houses of wary consumers.