Talk:Intellivision

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message: Why was the addition of the JC Penney 1979 availability removed.  Is there any evidence that someone could not order an Intellivision from that catalog?
*Tons, including other sources linked in the article already.  They had planned a much larger 1979 roll out, but because of production delays they cut back to a single test market in Fresno through the department store Gottschalks.  All of this, and a price increase too, happened after JC Penny had printed their catalog.  I have no idea whether they just gave refunds or IOUs, but either way, no one was getting an Intellivision from JC Penny in 1979. Indrian (talk) 00:32, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyway, the above is just further illustration that plans can change very quickly and just because something is advertised by a retailer does not mean it will actually come out.  Christmas catalogs have to be prepared months in advance so shoppers have an opportunity to see what's out there before the start of the Christmas buying season.  Sometimes companies providing product for a catalog are just not able to hold to a prior commitment.  The Intellivision debacle is just one example of this.  Catalog advertising or newspaper advertising is one sign for historians that a product may have been available, but it has to be cross-referenced with other sources.  All other known sources, both internal and external to Mattel, demonstrate that Mattel had to scrap its plans to sell the system at major national retailers, whether in the physical stores or via mail order, in 1979.  This is why history is not just locating one source and assuming it tells the complete story about an event. Indrian (talk) 19:10, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  JCPenney 1979 

message: The History and Development section is in chronological order.  The Intellivision IV was started before the Intellivision III and should be in that order.  It's not "in the sky planning".  They were developed by different teams.  Decade started by the team that did the original intellivision shortly after that was finished.  The intellivision iii was a quick-fix response to colecovision, developed by an outside consultant, and cancelled.  Decade was never cancelled.
It's not correct to say "there was never any intention of it releasing first".  At the time Decade development started there was no concept of the intellivision iii.  Therefore the original plan was for decade to be the follow-up to the intellivision.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.67.43.219 (talk) 11:14, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decade (Intellivision IV)  

message: @WhatGuy wrote "It remained Mattel's only video game console until the HyperScan in 2006.".  Aquarius existed, but perhaps it was not "a video game console" ? Anttir717 (talk) 19:50, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it the only game console if e.g. Aquarius exist?