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I see you subsequently attempted to flame-proof your post with a revision to forestall Genesis vs SNES arguments, but I think the "American consumers will buy just about any junky thing so long as it has a good advertising campaign" comment is inflammatory and inaccurate enough (at least in this case - there was a time when the product in question was the hands-down leader compared to the old 8-bit nintendo) to have needed comment regardless. No offense intended.