mai on 12 June 2013
| the2real4mafol said:
Why is that a problem? They practically saved this industry back in the day, people seem to forget that. If it weren't for the NES coming out from 1983 to 1985, we would all be gaming on PC and it wouldn't be as popular as it is today |
Put yourself in the shoes of Activision and EA CEOs at the time. Home consoles are nearly dead, PC age is booming. Home consoles are closed platforms*, smaller margin, PCs are open, 'do whatever you want' platforms, bigger margin. What would you choose? Hate is justified.
*Well, at least NES draconian policies for publishers, which ironically were aimed to prevent another crash. Atari is another story.
