Kai_Mao said:
Just a question. Wasn't the reason why Nintendo became more strict was to avoid giving too much power to third parties who could end up developing too many games in a short amount of time just for profits? I mean one of the reasons for the game crash in '83 was that the market became too saturated, especially when it came to crap, rushed products such as ET, Pac Man, etc. Sure the monopoly may be illegal today, but I can't imagine the gaming industry being able to recover while keeping its status quo from the early 80s. Though to be fair, there were still a lot of crappy games on the NES and there are still crappy games being released in this day and age.
As as for the OT, I don't have a lot of trust in the industry. I trust Nintendo for making great games and stable consoles and controllers that can remain working for years to come (looking at the 2 PS2 controllers >.>). I trust composers like Kondo and Shimomura in creating great music. I trust the overreaction of commenters. I trust translators to miss a few things on the actual statements (poor Sakurai for being misunderstood and mistranslated for years). I also trust people not agreeing on each other's opinion. |
:( I'm referring to Nintendo's internal development team, not them as publishers. I thought I made that clear. It wasn't Tezuka or Miyamoto's idea to implement the 10NES chip or make general business decisions. They were newbies at the time working on SMB1 and Zelda 1. I'm not talking about 3rd parties at all, there are a lot of crappy games on any console and for Nintendo most of them weren't made by themselves. Look at the top 10 best selling games on any Nintendo console and they're mostly all 1st party games. Nintendo as a business back then was shaky, but as game developers I trust them to deliver. What the higher ups decide is what they decide, it wasn't my point to focus on that aspect in this specific post.
