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by wingi 564 days ago
You should mention that you mean the japan console market, not US.

In 1983 the US console market collapsed because of the many low-quality atari games and not-licenced consoles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

The NES was released in US test markets as the redesigned NES in October 1985.

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"Epoch went from dominating the cartridge-based game market in Japan to a distant third practically overnight." is the third sentence.
The entire article is so thoroughly Japan-centric that if this isn't being said explicitly, it doesn't need to be. None of these products were ever on the US market.