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> Nintendo knows to capitalize on their history far better than Sony or Microsoft. Compared to Nintendo, Microsoft have no gaming history and Sony is not that
by Narann 6y ago
> Nintendo knows to capitalize on their history far better than Sony or Microsoft.
Compared to Nintendo, Microsoft have no gaming history and Sony is not that better.
Nintendo is the oldest of them, with a huge IP for pre-Playstation area (NES, SNES, GB, GBC, etc).
Nintendo is the first to had the opportunity to provide its old games to its console (Wii virtual console). This implies it is the first to have to deal with retro gaming emulation from a financial standpoint.
Nintendo platforms tends to be the most emulated ones with very good emulation. Also dev community tends to focus on Nintendo emulator far more.
Neither Sony or MS had those problems.
I suspect things are moving slightly for the Playstation world, but even with that Sony don't have a such big IP they can control and distribute them-self.
- Izkata 6y agoEven before the virtual console, Nintendo made it a point on its handhelds that every generation could play the whole catalogue of one generation previous. Until the Switch at least, though that's not a pure handheld.
- jmiskovic 6y agoThe MS DOS and Windows platform hosted enormous amount of gaming history. It doesn't go back as far as Nintendo and they have no control over IP (due to open-garden nature of those OS-es), but the volume of games is huge. That's just a nitpick about first sentence, I agree with the rest of your post.