| Mr_No said: Not that I'm refuting your facts, but what were those draconian approaches towards third-party games Nintendo used to have back with the NES and the SNES? |
After the NES era, nintendo were at the top of their game and third party support was booming. Then in the SNES era, at a time when third parties were most dependent on nintendo, nintendo introduced the highest royalties programme ever. Not just making third parties pay royalties for game, but on dev kits and every catridge made. And nintendo had a rigorous QA programme it put them through too. Back then, third parties felt like they were being extorted but nintendo was the king of the hill and called all the shots.
Then sony came alng with the playstation. And ushered in greatly reduced royalties on games sold and even offered up dev kits for free (a practice they still do till this day with some devs) They also lowered QA requirements which in turn led to reduced lead times im development and in turn led to lower development costs.
So by the time the N64 came around, even threatening to be more expensive than the SNES, the third parties were done with nintendo.
Contrary to what some may think, my apparent dislike of nintendo isnt cause i just hate them, i actually truly love nintendo games and nintendo consoles were the first 3 consoles i ever bought in my life. NES, SNES and N64. What i hate are the decisions they make, their choices made me leave during the N64 era when i couldn't play games like Tekken, Xmen children of the atom. FF7 was the straw that finally broke me and i was gone. Till this day, i still see the things in them that made me leave to begin with.
