richardhutnik on 20 March 2010
Back in the day, videogames were things you did replay. Nintendo goes OLD school in its designs and they do things that do have replayability and you keep. Oh, there are some exceptions, but on the whole they are replayable. The arcades did compel the videogame industry to make games people would keep pumping quarters in to play. Nintendo has origins in the arcades.
Contrast that with games as movies mentality videogame industry has now, where it is supposed to be an awesome play through once experience. When you create replayability, games don't end up in the used bin, so thus you sell more.
