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I'm not sure what Nintendo "thinks" but they've always been protective since the NES days, which arguably allowed them to pick the video game industry out of th
by noobermin 5y ago
I'm not sure what Nintendo "thinks" but they've always been protective since the NES days, which arguably allowed them to pick the video game industry out of the funk that befell all the other 8-bit consoles. I'm not sure if there is any philosophy around why they do it vs. it just seems like a corporate culture to them to be controlling of their consoles and their IP. I think a while back, the switch removed a game from the nintendo store that had an interpreter in it, even this with sanctioned basic interpreters around there. They've always been control freaks to the point where it doesn't really even make much dollar sense for it.
- astrange 5y agoBtw, that video game crash was limited to the US - it didn't happen in Japan or European markets. I remember complaints that other language Wikipedias covered it as a global thing anyway because they were translated from English.
- noobermin 5y agoInteresting piece of history! I am too young to have experienced it, I mostly just know about it from reading video game history, and yes the only cited makers were atari, commodore, and other American companies.
- ask_b123 5y agoThis reminds me, a little bit, of this fact about Encarta: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/07/19/encarta-different-facts-for-different-folks/ https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/07/19/encarta-differen... (first link I found)