The truth about Nintendo

[cannonballZ]

kupomogli said:

cannonballZ said:

Oh boy, I'm not going to read the rest of this nonsense. This is basically the authors view, not exactly "The Truth" as the titles says.

"Nintendo was also the company that has contributed the most for game exclusives. Making any title from a 1st party studio to be exclusive, demanding every 3rd party NES game to be exclusive in the 3rd gen, making many of the 5th gen multi-platform to release a “64” version and buying exclusive rights for many games like no other company has done before (maybe, and only maybe Microsoft could have done something similar)."

Actually this is true. 

Sega had to use a loophole to get many third party games on their consoles by porting the games themselves.  That's why there are so many arcade games on the Master System and Genesis. 

It's also the reason many third parties dropped Nintendo as soon as the Playstation started to receive popularity.  It's the reason why Squaresoft didn't develop any games for any Nintendo consoles for around seven to eight years.  It was only after Iwata patched things up with Squaresoft that they started developing for Nintendo again.  Want proof?  Google when Iwata became president of Nintendo and Squaresoft's first GBA game.

I agree, what I also should have put on that post was I don't think this harmed the gamers so much as it harmed Nintendo. They did a lot of things wrong when it comes to 3rd parties. But like I said, it hurt them more than the gamers. We still have the option to buy those great 3rd party games else where. 

 

But yes, I know about Nintendo's history.