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I was going to say, it's an historically interesting tidbit but as a consumer I'm so constantly baffled by Nintendo's bad business decisions and anti-consumer p
by Root_Denied 4y ago
I was going to say, it's an historically interesting tidbit but as a consumer I'm so constantly baffled by Nintendo's bad business decisions and anti-consumer practices that I kind of don't care.
- MBCook 4y agoNintendo is smart. They saw a near crash in Japan on the Famicom (no lockout) and what happened to Atari/etc in the US (also no lockout). They wanted to be very sure they didn’t run into that. So with the US launch they controlled publishing, licensing, lockout chips, the “Nintendo Seal of Quality”, etc. They were trying to avoid another disaster. And it worked. So they stuck to it. Combined with being very conservative and opinionated (for better or worse) it continues to this day. Yes, they’ve loosened compared to the NES days, but that’s why. Sony and MS came along MUCH later to a very different industry. By that generation consoles were normal and gaming was there to stay. The risks were different.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Nintendo's bad business decisions Do you mean bad like you think they're bad people, or do you mean bad like you think they left money on the table?
- Root_Denied 4y agoI do indeed mean bad as in "left money on the table" - or possibly "pissed off their fanbase" which tends to lead to reduced revenue and loss of respect. The former they don't see to care about as much as the latter. I probably should have used a word like poor instead of bad.