User contributions for Indrian

24 May 2024

• 07:4207:42, 24 May 2024 diff hist −52‎ 2024 in video games ‎ Hyperbolic nonsense.
• 07:3907:39, 24 May 2024 diff hist −454‎ Console war ‎ Sure, the VCS and Intellivision were fierce competitors between 1980 and 1983, but a French company that calls itself Atari because of an asset purchase a few decades ago and a licensing company that calls itself Intellivision Entertainment because no one else could be bothered to exploit the IP in the late 1990s are not competitors at all, and the former buying some rights from the latter has nothing to do with ending a marketshare fight that was done and dusted 40 years ago. current

8 May 2024

• 17:2917:29, 8 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ Hank Aaron ‎ Debut year is for Major League debut. Tag: Manual revert

4 May 2024

• 06:2306:23, 4 May 2024 diff hist −5‎ Magnavox Odyssey ‎No edit summary Tag: Manual revert

3 May 2024

• 04:3404:34, 3 May 2024 diff hist 0‎ m Jack Tramiel ‎No edit summary

1 May 2024

• 15:5815:58, 1 May 2024 diff hist −36‎ CD-i ‎No edit summary Tag: Manual revert

30 April 2024

• 15:3915:39, 30 April 2024 diff hist −32‎ History of arcade video games ‎ One of these things is not like the others… Tag: Reverted
• 15:3515:35, 30 April 2024 diff hist −4‎ m History of arcade video games ‎ →‎Arrival of arcade video games (1971−1977)
• 15:3415:34, 30 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ History of arcade video games ‎ →‎Arrival of arcade video games (1971−1977)
• 15:3315:33, 30 April 2024 diff hist −56‎ History of arcade video games ‎ Bushnell loves to bring up Speedway, but he graduated college at the end of 1968 and moved to California. He never ran an arcade that had a unit.
• 15:1915:19, 30 April 2024 diff hist −66‎ Fifth generation of video game consoles ‎ Virtual Boy was not tied to N64 development
• 15:1515:15, 30 April 2024 diff hist +16‎ Fifth generation of video game consoles ‎ A large number of console releases does not make for a fragmented market. Most of them barely sold, and the PlayStation took the vast majority of the marketshare.
• 15:1315:13, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6‎ Fifth generation of video game consoles ‎ “War” is just a wee bit melodramatic
• 15:1215:12, 30 April 2024 diff hist −41‎ Fifth generation of video game consoles ‎ FF7 was never in active development on the N64. They were exploring the system’s capabilities, but ultimately rejected it.
• 15:0215:02, 30 April 2024 diff hist −118‎ Fifth generation of video game consoles ‎ SD cards are not cartridges.
• 14:4714:47, 30 April 2024 diff hist −422‎ CD-i ‎ That article is full of atrocious errors and should not be used as a source.
• 07:4607:46, 30 April 2024 diff hist −412‎ Fourth generation of video game consoles ‎ That article is a travesty I thought expunged from Wikipedia long ago due to multiple provable examples of incorrect figures. Best guess from currently available sources is 7.7 million (6 million Japan, 1.7 million US). That may miss a few Japanese sakes but probably inflates U.S. figures as some of those are likely sell-in rather than sell through.
• 07:2507:25, 30 April 2024 diff hist −207‎ TurboGrafx-16 ‎ As before, it reportedly set a new Japanese record for sales of a console in its first year, besting the Famicom’s performance in 1983. It did NOT outsell the Famicom in 1987. Reliable sources have the Famicom outselling the PC Engine to the tune of 1.78 million to 600,000.
• 07:1507:15, 30 April 2024 diff hist −20‎ m TurboGrafx-16 ‎No edit summary
• 07:1407:14, 30 April 2024 diff hist −554‎ TurboGrafx-16 ‎ This is a long-standing falsehood due to mistranslation of Japanese sources. There are TONS of contemporaneous sources for Japanese console sales, and none show the PC Engine outselling the Famicom in 1987. However, Japanese sources did like to talk about how the PC Engine sold more in its debut year (1987) than the Famicom did in its debut year (1983). This accomplishment was misreported in the west.
• 07:0807:08, 30 April 2024 diff hist −889‎ Console war ‎ Rumors and vague marketing statements have no place in an encyclopedia article.
• 07:0607:06, 30 April 2024 diff hist −355‎ Console war ‎ Not particularly noteworthy to the subject of the article. Funny though.
• 07:0507:05, 30 April 2024 diff hist −384‎ Console war ‎ While some Kotaku articles are considered reliable, this is a slideshow listicle and so really is not. Also, the claim is just silly: Sony was relying on first-party exclusives like God of War and Uncharted long before the PS4.
• 07:0107:01, 30 April 2024 diff hist −410‎ Console war ‎ Well that is a meaningless statistic. I bet if you combined Sony and Nintendo’s marketshare you would get a similar figure. Sony has left Microsoft so far behind on hardware sales that Microsoft is approaching the market in a completely different manner. Not much of a war, at least not in the way this article tries to characterize it.
• 06:5806:58, 30 April 2024 diff hist −284‎ Console war ‎ There’s that silly case study textbook again. While the performance of Sony and Microsoft hardware is generally comparable, technological differences have played a big role in their competition many times, including in the current generation.
• 06:5306:53, 30 April 2024 diff hist −464‎ Console war ‎ A book review is not a high-quality source. Pretty sure Sega did not pull ahead in the U.S. until 1993, but even if I am wrong, this claim needs a real source to back it up.
• 06:4206:42, 30 April 2024 diff hist −479‎ Console war ‎ Aside from the fact that dwelling on the freezing glitch is excessive for an article on market battles, it was the best selling system by far in 1983 to, so not sure what this “by the end of 1984” stuff is about.
• 06:3906:39, 30 April 2024 diff hist −26‎ Console war ‎ I mean, every programmable console across the first three “generations” was 8-bit, so singling it out in this way makes little sense.
• 06:3406:34, 30 April 2024 diff hist −20‎ Console war ‎ Need a much better source than what appears to be a textbook of case studies to make this exceptional claim. I am not an economist, but the video game industry does not appear to meet the definition of an oligopoly, because while there are a limited number of participants their are usually quite different from each other and thus lack the homogeneity required. That said, I really am not an economist, so if better sourcing can be found, feel free to restore.

22 April 2024

• 05:0205:02, 22 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ m Commodore International ‎No edit summary
• 05:0105:01, 22 April 2024 diff hist −5‎ m Commodore International ‎ can't type apparently
• 05:0005:00, 22 April 2024 diff hist +42‎ Commodore International ‎ Corporate shenanigans Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 04:5204:52, 22 April 2024 diff hist +12‎ Commodore International ‎ Well, if we want to get really technical, it was a Bahamanian Corporation, but that aside, no, it was not Canadian. Commodore Portable Typewriter/Commodore Business Machines is not the same thing as Commodore International. Tag: Manual revert

20 April 2024

• 17:4917:49, 20 April 2024 diff hist +206‎ User talk:Indrian ‎ →‎Keith Stuart’s “Sega Mega Drive Collected Works”

19 April 2024

• 03:1103:11, 19 April 2024 diff hist −713‎ 32X ‎ Excessive quoting from the sources, also in that Miller quote I removed he clearly states that the timing was wrong, not that Sega in Japan was unsupportive.

18 April 2024

• 22:0122:01, 18 April 2024 diff hist +63‎ Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ‎ Items in the lead do not require a source if they are sourced in the body. If you had bothered reading the article instead of merely skimming the lead, you would know this is sourced in the body to a 1993 New York Times article, which can’t possibly be confusing a movie that would not exist for decades.
• 21:5221:52, 18 April 2024 diff hist +891‎ History of arcade video games ‎ Hard disagree. COVID was immensely catastrophic for what remained of the global arcade industry and feels very much an appropriate milestone to single out as the onset of a more acutely accelerated decline. Tag: Manual revert
• 21:4421:44, 18 April 2024 diff hist −206‎ Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ‎ Pointless comparison bereft of context. Last I checked, the MSRP of a video game is just a smidge higher than a music album.
• 21:4121:41, 18 April 2024 diff hist −599‎ Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ‎ Several problems here. First, there is no compilation of all Genesis game sales figures, so there is no way to definitively state it was the second best-selling game on the system. Second, those British magazines are reporting on the UK only when they discuss Sonic 2 becoming the fastest-selling game. Dragon Quest III sold 1.1 million in a day and 3 million in a week, Sonic 2 did not. Finally, the U.S. first-week sales are inflated using a low-quality source. Replaced with a far better one.
• 01:2701:27, 18 April 2024 diff hist −224‎ Super Mario Bros. ‎ Revert good faith edit. That is not a strong enough source to speculate on in a wikipedia article. Tag: Manual revert

14 April 2024

• 07:4707:47, 14 April 2024 diff hist −501‎ Moktar Ould Daddah ‎ No indication that this specific meeting is notable. current

9 April 2024

• 22:1922:19, 9 April 2024 diff hist +227‎ 1971 in video games ‎No edit summary current
• 22:1022:10, 9 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ Sony Interactive Entertainment ‎ That is not how parent-subsidiary relationships work. SIE's own website states it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. Tag: Manual revert

5 April 2024

• 08:2908:29, 5 April 2024 diff hist −87‎ Third generation of video game consoles ‎ Again, Nintendo approached Atari in April 1983, well before the console was publicly announced, let alone a success.
• 08:2708:27, 5 April 2024 diff hist −269‎ Third generation of video game consoles ‎ Considering Nintendo approached Atari about licensing the system in April 1983, this statement is clearly untrue.

30 March 2024

• 10:0810:08, 30 March 2024 diff hist −23‎ Second generation of video game consoles ‎ TTL ICs are certainly not electro-mechanical
• 09:5709:57, 30 March 2024 diff hist −99‎ First generation of video game consoles ‎ really bizarre to single out Binatone considering Videomaster was the market leader in the UK
• 09:5309:53, 30 March 2024 diff hist −61‎ First generation of video game consoles ‎ a microchip is just an integrated circuit. TTL circuits are microchips, and Atari was using those on every product it released in arcades from the beginning.
• 09:3409:34, 30 March 2024 diff hist +15‎ First generation of video game consoles ‎ NAP was its own company and not a subsidiary of Philips due to complicated WWII-related corporate shenanigans.
• 09:3209:32, 30 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ First generation of video game consoles ‎ the circuit cards were not cartridges, which by definition consist of a housing of some kind with an object nested inside.