Nintendo doesn't make throwaway games.

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richardhutnik said:

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.

I hate the game as movie mentality! Games to me are games they aren't movies and they will never be movies no matter how much people try to shoehorn them into being movies. I like games which are as good on the fourth playthrough as they are on the first. I don't even count a game as amongst my best ever until I have sunk over 100 hours into them. If a game cannot last me 100 hours then its not fit to be called great.