Talk:Console Wars (book)

Genre

I've removed wording in the article suggesting that this is an "adult novel". A novel is a work of fiction, and this article is named and categorized as a work of non-fiction. If Console Wars is fictionalized or the narractive is otherwise unusual, this should be explained in the article using available reliable sources. It is lazy and confusing to simply call it a non-fiction work or novel if its nature is more complicated. Further, the sources I've looked at so far do not refer to it as a novel, in which case we should not either.— TAnthony^Talk 19:08, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

To clarify: I get that the book includes dramatization of events, and this kind of fictionalization should definitely be explained in the article. It just does not seem appropriate (so far) to designate this a novel, looking at the sources. And I don't seem to be the first person to suggest this.— TAnthony^Talk 19:15, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying your beliefs a bit more- what you're saying makes a bit more sense now that I've thought about it. A few sources do briefly note the book's more novelistic nature, but I guess I agree that a bit more effort should be put into explaining the book's genre, since it's a bit more complex than being just a novel or just a non-fiction book. For now I feel that the brief sentence I included about Harris's writing style should be a good start. TheDisneyGamer (talk) 20:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

1991

The sentence "Following a successful demonstration of Sonic at the 1991 Summer Consumer Electronics Show, the Genesis quickly outsells Nintendo's SNES, marking the first time since 1985 that the company does not dominate the home console market." Seems a tad problematic as the Snes only came out in North America in August 1991.Halbared (talk) 14:10, 11 February 2021 (UTC)