This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
Video games out lasted Sharon B
Haha word processor… Hilarious!
I am still waiting for my educational game Sharon!
Did she think board games wont last either? Seriously, some people are so naive
>just wait and see
Maybe people at the time just thought that the “Video” part changed the essence of games. Because the 80’s was the peak of professional Chess champions such as Kasparov. Chess being a game played for thousands of years.
Nothing like historic distancing for better perspectives.
I mean, she wasn’t entirely wrong. The video game industry did end up collapsing the very next year. She just didn’t predict that the NES would make gaming popular again a few years later
She looked like an absolute sage the year afterwards though, when the market for video games cratered completely, almost destroying the entire industry. It didn’t bounce back until the NES.
A lot of people here dunking on a pretty common sentiment for the time period, forgetting both the advantage of hindsight and the fact that this [very nearly came true](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983)
I don’t begrudge Sharon for not having a crystal ball, but what in the world did not being educational have to do with anything?
This is a crop from the full article. Her comment gets the attention but have a look at what the OTHER people said.
They all nailed it 🙂 Have a scroll:
https://imgur.com/a/QRzXnTu
So by her logic only things that are educational are popular? I don’t think she was ever in touch with reality.
To her credit, she said this only months before the [video game crash of '83](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983) which was easily one of the most abrupt and catastrophic failures of an entire industry that America has ever seen, dropping from a multi-billion-dollar market to only millions in less than 2 years. People were very sure that home computers would be the only place to play games, and that video game consoles were absolutely a fad. Sharon was essentially a prophet of this (whether or not she guessed the reasoning).
Unfortunately for her a few years later the NES would drop and become so massively successful that it’s name became a synonym for “video game”. Oop
There’s still time.
She was just mad because she knew she was going to be replaced by MS Word
1996 a swedish politician said that Internet is a fad.
Sharon B replaced by a computer program.
“Nobody will ever need more than 640KB of memory”
“The public always gets bored and turns to something else”
Well she isn’t wrong about this, she just missed the logical conclusion: they turn to other video games