> The video game crash of 1983 [...] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States.
> But outside of North America the video game industry was doing very well. Home consoles were growing in popularity in Japan while home computers were surging across Europe.
Note that the article’s title in Japanese is “Atari shock”.
Honestly, I think it should be called the “US video game crash of 1983”, and the article should be more up-front that this was something that happened specifically in the US. I think the English-language Wikipedia relies too heavily on North American sources.
The other language Wikipedias have this issue even worse; they tend to be translations from English, so they’ll discuss the video game crash like it was important even if it didn’t happen in their country.
Sure, but there are tons of Japanese-language sources of commentary specifically about the video game industry, and the English-language articles about video games are almost pathologically narrow in their viewpoints.
Japan had a smaller “crash” around 1986. Before then, lots of Famicom games were selling millions or high 6 figures regardless of quality, but afterwards (with VERY FEW exceptions) the million sellers were mainly first party and Dragon Quest games.
> The video game crash of 1983 [...] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States.
> But outside of North America the video game industry was doing very well. Home consoles were growing in popularity in Japan while home computers were surging across Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
The Japanese language Wikipedia has a very different tone to the article, because it was written from perspectives outside North America:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3...
Note that the article’s title in Japanese is “Atari shock”.
Honestly, I think it should be called the “US video game crash of 1983”, and the article should be more up-front that this was something that happened specifically in the US. I think the English-language Wikipedia relies too heavily on North American sources.