Top Hat Gaming Man discusses the history of the Atari 2800 Game System and why it failed!
https://youtu.be/HYQlj-52bMw
Interesting video. The cost of Famicom vs the 2800: approximately 14,000 to 24,000 was such a stretch. Even if the cost was the same would have been a hard sell.
It really was a stretch but I guess they still had to try. The results, though, were totally expected.