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DarkD on 24 February 2014
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Zod95 said:
DarkD said:
TLDR most of it, glossed over some of it.

He's basically claiming Nintendo has been abusing the gaming industry to make absurd profits at the cost of gamers and developers. It's mostly bullshit. He claims that because Nintendo has a profit margin unlike Sony and Microsoft that they should be ostracized from the gaming industry. Sony would be making money too if their games sold more than a couple million...

Nintendo is the only one who is actually trying to come up with a way of making money off of home consoles in the future. The other two know damn well this will probably be the last generation that this graphics model will work. Why do you think everyone was so convinced DRM was gonna be standard for all the consoles this generation.

Nintendo was really bad in the NES and SNES eras, that's true, but that's how the playstation came into power. Say what you want about Nintendo 20 years ago, but right now Sony and Microsoft are bankrupting developers left and right.

bolded: wrong, I've never claimed such a thing and Nintendo is not the best prepared for the future among the 3 console makers.

underlined: how can you claim such a thing?

You wanna see the big list of bankrupted devs last gen.  It's at something like 50.  Not to mention the ones like David Jaffe who went Free to play and Irrational who went indie.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/12/11/20-studios-we-lost-in-2012

Theres a list of 20 for 2012, who went were disolved into other groups because their games didn't make a profit anymore in todays development environment.  Or various other reasons which can all be traced to massive development costs that are skewering the variety of games that developers can make money off of.  

And how is my statement wrong.  Nintendo is trying to make console development about the depth of gameplay instead of the pixel count in graphics.  You know how much the most expensive games costs these days?  GTAV is the number 1 at 265 million dollars.  Can you imagine if that failed?  If suddenly people just said "I'm tired of GTA".  There are less people who play games on a home console than there were 10 years ago, and our development costs have gone through the roof, how is this not evidence that graphics don't work.