Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware Arsenault Dominic Assistant Professor Universite de Montreal
How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's s resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.This is a book about the Super…
Specifikacia Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware Arsenault Dominic Assistant Professor Universite de Montreal
How the Super Nintendo Entertainment System embodied Nintendo's s resistance to innovation and took the company from industry leadership to the margins of videogaming.This is a book about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that is not celebratory or self-congratulatory. Most other accounts declare the Super NES the undisputed victor of the "16-bit console wars" of 1989-1995. In this book, Dominic Arsenault reminds us that although the SNES was a strong platform filled with high-quality games, it was also the product of a short-sighted corporate vision focused on maintaining Nintendo's market share and business model. This led the firm to fall from a dominant position during its golden age (dubbed by Arsenault the "ReNESsance") with the NES to the margins of the industry with the Nintendo 64 and GameCube consoles. Arsenault argues that Nintendo's conservative business