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Article: Seasonal demand is high for Super NES. (Nintendo of America's Super NES hardware and fall cartridge games)
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- Video Business
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- December 15, 1995
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Despite an ailing 16-bit business, Nintendo of America believes that demand for its Super NES hardware and fall cartridge games will exceed supply.
In a Nov. 22 letter to the company's direct accounts, Bruce Donaldson, Nintendo's VP of sales, consumer products, apologized for shortages of Super NES hardware and cartridge games, including Killer Instinct, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest.
"As you all know, we had originally planned this business down for the calendar year 1995 by over 30%. What we didn't realize was that the Super NES would become, in fact, the system of choice," Donaldson wrote. He ...