Nintendo Seal of Quality!

[Joelcool7]

 

Now many have read my latest post about a downfall in quality. Well I decided to create a different topic regarding the seal of quality itself.

Back in the eighties and early ninties their was something called the Nintendo Seal of Quality. Nintendo had very very very strict censorship policies. Publishers in most cases were aloud to publish about 3-games a year and those games were picked over with a fine toothed comb. Nintendo of course had a monopolistic advantage publishing many more of their own titles then they aloud the competition. Nintendo censored a couple games and made changes when they thought they were necessary.

Of course as we know those censorship policies weren't exactly legal. Nintendo ended up having to give them up toward the beggining of the Nintendo64. During the late N64 and GameCube era Nintendo still felt they were the super power and maintained quality testing. Nintendo didn't liscense games like Bubsy3D now I admit some games got slipped through their hands but for the most part Nintendo maintained a standard of quality.

Today Nintendo has abolished the seal of quality. It know longer exists instead we have a simple Nintendo Seal whichmeans the software or hardware was liscensed by Nintendo. As we have seen with the Wii this means that all kinds of junk can be released and as much of it as publishers can push out. Nintendo does still have a process of liscensing but now they liscense games sometimes before even working demo's are availible. 

 

So should Nintendo have a quality standard and stick to it? Should Nintendo create a new testing team to ensure that a higher next generation standard of quality is met? Or should Nintendo maintain the free for all mentality of the Official Nintendo Seal.

What do you think, the "Seal of Quality" or the "Official Seal"?