Maybe? But probably not. The NES closed system model brought the price of consoles down considerably, considering they didn’t really need to worry about hardware profitability to cover R&D and operational expenses. Additionally, they brought the general quality of games up by excluding software that had blockers and game breaking bugs (a few slipped through, notably some of the Marvel games), but that was a rarity.
This model actually served to fix the industry after the more open hardware models mostly destroyed it by alienating consumers with high prices and low quality software that would make even the buggiest games of today look brilliant.
Granted, things have improved a little since then. Games are mostly distributed through online storefronts which I believe have a QA process that serves the same purpose as the hardware distribution “seal of quality” gate in the software output pipeline.
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