They basically stole the Super Nintendo set-up which Nintendo had created and then paid off third parties to cut Sega out of the industry via money-hats.
They've stuck to that formula and don't make a lot of mistakes which then doesn't give competitors much of an opening. On the home console side, they've made basically one major mistake in 25 years in the business (Blu-Ray for PS3) and still were able to push out a more than respectable 85 million units.
The Playstation is basically the successor brand to the Super NES. They took that setup and locked competitors out of getting it back by using money-hats.
The N64 would have sold 100+ million units if Nintendo had not been stubborn and used CDs, even as a second format (there's no law that says you can't have cartridges and CDs on one system, the Saturn had both). The fact that it sold 33 million with meager developer support and long stretches of 1-2 game releases for $60-$70+ games only for months on end was insane.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 07 June 2020
