Battle Rage on wii, yes it's shovelware.

[totalwar23]

averyblund said:
Clarly 

totalwar23 said:

averyblund said:

totalwar23 said:
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Nintendo's Seal of Quality only meant the publisher paid the licensing fee and the game actually functioned. That was about it.

 

Apparently you were not around in the NES and SNES days. Not an insult, but back then Ninty used the seal to do all kinds of things. Mortal Kombat is a great example.

Oh sure the Seal of Quality had a confidence effect on consumers but basically, that's was all a publisher had to do to get the Seal of Quality. The requirements are pretty the same now as it was back then.

Edit-There were no bad games on the NES then?

 

Come on, clearly my pint wasn't that all SNES or NES games were good. But Nintendo did seem to be paying really careful attention, enough to notice what content was deemed inappropriate. While I didn't like the censorship aspect bugs like the recent Tomb Raider game killer would not have passed by the old Nintendo, nor would endless shovelware been given licensing. 

 

For one thing, games today are a lot more complex than it was back then. Twighlight Princess had a game ending bug if you remembered. It's not fair to say if a game had bug, then Nintendo wasn't paying attention.

Secondly, old Nintendo had a near monopoly on the market and engage what you might say anti-competitive actions. They didn't have a very good reputation. The N64 and Gamecube era humbled them for the better. In the NES days, Nintendo wouldn't have let endless shovelware show up on their system because they limit 5 games per year for all third party publishers no matter what the quality of the game. In theory, if DDI was active back then, they produce 5 shovelware games a year provide that they paid the licensing fee and their game worked. It didn't matter if it was considered to be bad.