Nintendo: If devs are worried about used game sales, they should make better games.

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NoirSon said:

venepe said:
I agree with Reggie. The better the game the more likely you are to keep it in your collection.

But Nintendo now takes that stance because is not the market leader and has little 3rd party support. Back in the NES and SNES days Nintendo actually fought hard against the Game Rental Industry, they sued Blockbuster but lost at the end, although they did win the part about not being able to get the game booklet.

Technically, the Wii still leads in hardware sales and when it comes to software, Nintendo is still one of the top 3 software publishers worldwide, easily #1 in their own country of Japan and has more million selling games then any other video game company. It is no doubt arrogant to say it, but Nintendo isn't wrong, they have had their portables and the Wii titles heavily pirated but they still come through making profits.

Let's get some perspective.  How did the topic come up? Mostly due to MS introduction to certain restrictions for used games.  Also Sony will alow 3rd parties to restrict their software if they so desire.  So who is pushing for these restrictions?  3rd party developers.  Even more specific, western developers.

To them , there are basically two choices.  They can either develop for Nintendo or for the HD twins. That is how they divide the market.

Those who decide to develop for Sony and MS are more vulnerable to lose profits by the sale and trade of used games. They are the ones pushing for the restrictions.

Those that decide to develop for Nintendo are partially safe from such loss as the demographics are different.

Nintendo itself is safe because of the demographic that owns the system as well as the replayability of its own games.

But when Nintendo was in the position Sony and MS are in right now (back in the NES/SNES days), then Nintendo did try to put a stop to the game rentals.