Gaming's worst marketing/business decisions?

[foxtail]

DonFerrari said:

foxtail said:

To conform to the applicable DVD format standards (DVD disc, drive, codec and software, etc.) you must pay the licensing and/or royalty fees. The company that ships the end product is responsible for paying those fees unless the drive is sold standalone. For new PCs it would be the PC OEMs.  Microsoft avoided paying the fees on the original Xbox by excluding the necessary software for DVD video playback.  Even for Win7 and later they avoid paying fees by not including the codecs in non-Media versions of Windows out of the box.

Since the cap is $8 they would never have to pay more than that no matter if the whole price of the PC was $200 or $4000.   If the price was $100 or less the fee would be the $4 minimum, in-between $100-200 it would be 4% of the total price (i.e. if the final price was $150, 4% of that would mean a $6 fee).

So, since GC wouldn't need to playback DVD video they wouldn't have to pay 4-8 USD, so your point is?

Nintendo is also NOT a DVD licensee so they would also have to pay extra fees and get certified, Microsoft is a DVD licensee because of Windows and and they still didn't want to pay to include DVD playback on the original Xbox. - https://www.dvdfllc.co.jp/license/lifc/alp_m.htm