Jereel Hunter said:
How is that a good thing? while MS and Sony have repeatedly dropped prices, and MS in particular, has worked very hard to get the most high quality support from 3rd party devs, Nintendo charges more for their console can is necessary, and doesn't care that 90% of software not created with their licenses is shovelware. Yes, smile if you like platformers and last-gen graphics. And while it's nice to see Sony get knocked down a peg after telling us to get second jobs to pay for their system, Nintendo's hardly doing this for our benefit.
(Also, I'd hardly classify MS as an 'arrogant console maker' considering they entered the market last and were the scrappy underdogs a very short time ago) |
How did Nintendo charge too much? The market paid for what the console was worth not for what the cost of the individual components were. They probably charged too little given the endemic shortages for the first couple of years.
Nintendo are not responsible for the software released on the platform, the people who released it are. Go complain to them or something because I haven't seen Microsoft or Sony declining software for being 'too bad' either.
Microsoft worked hard? Well bully to them. Nintendo worked smart and gave an under-represented userbase an option for a console which suited their needs better and they responded in kind.
If it makes you feel better, Microsoft are slightly less arrogant than Sony. Their PR is still pretty bad even if its better than the worst offenders by a good margin.
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