Gaming's worst marketing/business decisions?

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KLAMarine on 21 July 2016

DragonRouge said:

Nintendo ditching the PlayStation, they must be thinking right now: "All of this could've been ours!"

I suspect that's not true, contractually speaking.

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DragonRouge on 21 July 2016

KLAMarine said:

DragonRouge said:

Nintendo ditching the PlayStation, they must be thinking right now: "All of this could've been ours!"

I suspect that's not true, contractually speaking.

Of course not, it was just ironic exaggeration, but even if it was indeed a bad bussiness choice, it's only clear in hindsight, I'm sure most companies would've done the same as Nintendo at the time.

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Mosfet on 22 July 2016

Sega's marketing job on the Yakuza franchise.
I mean srsly,you have a superb and a quality bunch of games and you have utterly failed at marketing to the western audiences.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqrZ1zwfB8Ok0PZp44I7ElQ