>>11401594Unironically, Nintendo and NEC lobbying. Nintendo products were retailing at every store. Nintendo consoles were cheap compared to the (NEC) computers available at the time. NEC prevented smaller and cheaper computers from being sold to schools and offices. There was no Home Computing Initiative program like what the UK had back in the 60s, so most people couldn't afford and didn't know how to operate cheaper and simpler computers with no NEC DOS OS.
>>11401607>>11406063 >>11409069Wrong. NEC also hated the TRON project because they had 90% share of the PC industry in Japan, but the TRON project would require an entirely different computer infrastructure. US Global Trade Office was against the idea because it was incompatible with the x86 architecture the world was using. Microsoft lobbied against it once, but it had a minor effect on the initiative.
Ultimately, it was the lack of documentation and adoption outside Japan that made the initiative fail. Other pushbacks had little effect. It would've required Japan to build an exclusive infrastructure that would've made it hard to integrate with the rest of the world's computer industry. ITRON was integrated to Linux just very recently, showing that it's not easy to do. It's a good OS for the electronics industry, but not a good idea to be implemented into every computer system. They better use Linux like everyone else.
But most importantly, it has absolutely nothing to do with video games, which were mostly programmed on assembly or C and BASIC anyway.
