Sony and Microsoft are spoiling Third Parties to much.

[Game_God]

Intrinsic said:

Game_God said:

I'm well aware of the iron fist policies that Nintendo used back in the day, they were even more ruthless with retail. While I can see that some of their pratices were abusive, you can't argue that the output of quality games was great & that the consumer was more respected than nowadays, where we are treated as beta testers, lied to, micro-transaction dry milked by broken sequel games on release, on top of that we have to pay $300 extra to play these games on-line for a period of 6 years.

Nintendo was ruthless with 3rd parties so that we could enjoy great products, Sony/MS let 3rd parties do whatever & we the consumers pay for the consequences, worse they are steeping up 3rd parties mal-practices: Sony DriveClub & MS Halo: Master Chief Collection comes to mind...

For someone that seems to love Nintendo so much, you have no idea what you are talking about. Or at least a very twisted interpretation of what was really going on back then. 

If you honestly think anything good came out of nintendos draconian policies back then, then I'm truly sorry for you. Especially if you think they were doing all that primarily cause they were looking out for consumers. 

I both worked in the 3D scene & gaming retail business, you would be surprised at how much I indeed know of what happens behinds the scenes, from Sony it's down right shocking the words they use to describe their consumers...  cattle being shown their way to the slaughterhouse comes to mind!