This reminds me or the US-centric revisionism of the N-Gage. When US YouTubers 'discovered' the N-Gage in the mid 2010s it was suddenly portrayed as this massive flop nobody (Americans) had previously ever heard of. But that wasn't the N-Gage experience across the world. In the UK I remember the N-Gage being reasonably common, I knew a couple of people who had them and more who wanted one in the time before the PSP launched. I worked in Game and we had a couple of shelves for N-Gage games, they were far from popular but certainly weren't obscure. But now thanks to the YouTubers the narrative is that the N-Gage was a massive flop with a limited release simply because that was the American experience.
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Re: "Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage" - Why Do Americans Keep Ignoring European Gaming History?
This reminds me or the US-centric revisionism of the N-Gage. When US YouTubers 'discovered' the N-Gage in the mid 2010s it was suddenly portrayed as this massive flop nobody (Americans) had previously ever heard of. But that wasn't the N-Gage experience across the world. In the UK I remember the N-Gage being reasonably common, I knew a couple of people who had them and more who wanted one in the time before the PSP launched. I worked in Game and we had a couple of shelves for N-Gage games, they were far from popular but certainly weren't obscure. But now thanks to the YouTubers the narrative is that the N-Gage was a massive flop with a limited release simply because that was the American experience.